Word: carlo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a freshness too. The blooms of roses, petunias and daisies show through the twilight. Fireflies and children burst from leafy caverns. A look into the barn shows that it stables a red Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Far off, thunderheads pile up over the Missouri River, and then ringers of coolness touch the broad leaves of the linden tree overhead...
MONACO is FOR LOVERS say the T shirts hawked on the boulevards of Monte Carlo. But this week the tiny principality on France's Mediterranean coast was strictly for the paparazzi. While Princess Caroline, 21, prepared to wed Philippe Junot, 38, in the chapel of the Grimaldi family palace, reporters from all over the world were feverishly plotting their assault on a ceremony that the parents of the bride had vowed to keep private. The National Enquirer, the Florida-based tabloid, dispatched ten reporters and photographers to scour the Riviera in quest of informants on the courtship. There...
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon). In the case of the "New World" Symphony, familiarity has bred lack of imagination: conductors tend to blast through the great crescendos and wallow in the well-known themes. Not Giulini, however, whose byword is subtlety. The Chicago's famous brass is brilliant, not blaring, and Giulini achieves unexpected nuances of color and volume. Those who prefer their "New World" brooding and Slavic should stick with Stokowski's various recordings, but those with an ear for freshness will like this interpretation...
...suffered at a 1971 league rally in Manhattan; in Newburgh, N.Y. After a lackluster youth as a petty criminal in the underworld, Colombo became an efficient member of a five-man assassination squad under one of the Mafia bosses. Assigned in 1963 by another chieftain to murder reputed Godfather Carlo Gambino and two other high-ranking bosses, Colombo decided his victims would be worth more to him than his contract and tipped them off. Gambino awarded him a place on the Mafia's supreme council, the Commission, but Colombo was shunned as a stool pigeon and small-time hood...
...supporting themselves in the manner to which they would like to become reaccustomed. Most succeed in spite of the law forbidding Italian residents to take more than $580 in lire out of the country. But authorities have started cracking down. Last month Actress Sophia Loren and her husband, Producer Carlo Ponti, were charged with having illegally transferred several million dollars abroad...