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Giovanna glowers at the crowd. The Chorus joins in a spirited tutto, L'uomo che corteggiava (The man she sought...
...Curcio, 36, the handsome, bearded convict who is thought to have founded the organization, exemplifies the movement and its methods. Curcio, now on trial in Turin with 48 other brigatisti,* established a leftist splinter group at the University of Trento in 1967. Members immersed themselves in Marx, Mao and Che Guevara...
...where, oh where, are the jokes? Is it funny that the Rutles' first big hit song is called Hold My Hand instead of I Want to Hold Your Hand? Or that their largest American concert is held at New York's Che Stadium, not Shea Stadium? Is it a howl that John and Yoko (here named Ron and Chastity) hold their famous antiwar press conference in a bathtub rather than a bed? This is not humor; it's just British undergraduate silliness...
...abolition in 1975 was responsible for screening evidence before prosecutions could be brought. Before convicting an offender, said a finger-wagging article in the party journal Red Flag, "we must attach importance to evidence, investigations and studies." Meanwhile, some long-imprisoned dissidents have been freed, most notably Li Yi-che, jailed in 1974 for protesting a lack of "socialist democracy and legality" in the regime. Tellingly, that very phrase is now in vogue in Peking...
This sounds paranoid even to our conspiracyridden brains, but think. Remember Tanya Bunke, the East German revolutionary who had a long affair with Che Guevara? The CIA made her what she is today, having almost entirely fabricated her role in history by feeding false stories about her to an American journalist. Poor Patty Hearst somehow got brainwashed twice...