Word: cipriani
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...Fifth Avenue, amid posh hotels and shops, is a roseate version of Venice's Harry's Bar, named Harry Cipriani after Owner Arrigo (Harry) Cipriani because the title Harry's Bar is already in use in New York. Cipriani shuttles between Manhattan and Venice, dishing up unremarkable but popular food in both cities. "Business couldn't be better," he reports, noting that his New York offshoot is frequented for lunch by "lady shoppers." Perhaps they are attracted to his wanly handsome son Giuseppe, 21, the manager, who was rated by On the Avenue, a tony monthly tabloid...
Flak-jacketed soldiers and carabinieri surrounded the hotels that housed the visiting heads of state, including the luxurious Hotel Cipriani, where the Carters stayed in a three-room suite. Nearby canals were closed to gondolas, and frogmen periodically searched the murky waters for mines and bombs. Plainclothesmen, including the U.S. Secret Service, mingled with tourists. For security reasons the Carters' hostess, Danielle Gardner, wife of U.S. Ambassador Richard Gardner, was forbidden to take Rosalynn and Amy to many landmarks, including Murano island, which is headquarters for the city's famed glassblowers. But Rosalynn and Amy were scheduled...
...baroque library of the 17th century former Benedictine monastery on San Giorgio Maggiore island, a few minutes across the lagoon by launch from the Hotel Cipriani, that Carter finally had to confront the collective misgivings of America's allies: the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Italy and West Germany and a delegation representing the caretaker government of Japan. On the official agenda were perennial economic woes, including recession, inflation and rising oil costs. But the most troublesome differences were on an unofficial agenda of international politics, complicated by personal chemistry: French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing feels...
...solidarity of the little group begins to splinter. The generals complain of pains and illness, long to be away. The faithful Corsican attendant Cipriani (Jules Epailly) dies. Las Cases (Alan Wheatley), smugly cherishing his biographical notes, is sent away by the British -without his notes. Gourgaud (Joseph Macaulay), sulking like a jealous mistress when anyone else approaches his idol, finds his lot unendurable, weeps, departs. Suffering from confinement and a bad liver, Napoleon is haunted at night by the spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would...
Near the end of the procession and most important was the lumbering gilded coach of the Lord Mayor. Built in 1757, its panels decorated by the famed allegorical painter Cipriani, the Civic Coach is quite as imposing as the State Coach of George V. Six horses drew it. Seated on the festooned box was the splendiferous Lord Mayor's coachman, his fat calves gleaming in pink silk stockings, a plumed tricornered hat on his head, a gaudy rosette of ribbons in his buttonhole. From one window of the coach peeped the Civic Mace, out of the other stuck the Civic...