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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...withdrawing into individualismo, which means ignoring the social structures and doing one's own thing, and familismo, or pulling back into family togetherness. Such universal disengagement does not shatter the nation. Instead, it keeps Italy functioning remarkably well. Explains Author Italo Calvino: "Italians know that they can count only on their own individual strength, that it is useless to expect anything from an authority whose institutions do not function...
...years old, has emerged as one of the hottest tickets in the capital. The some 2,000 guests who attended this year's event witnessed the presentation of lifetime-achievement awards in the performing arts to an august quintet: Actor Cary Grant, 77, Actress Helen Hayes, 81, Jazzman Count Basie, 75, Choreographer Jerome Bobbins, 63, and Pianist Rudolf Serkin, 78. The gala will be broadcast by CBS on Dec. 26. Said a pleased Hayes, "Us old-timers were like kids who were graduating magna cum laude-we were really sailing above the earth...
...kind of glad it didn't stay that way," he added after a deep breath, a breath that nobody--not the fans, not the coaches, not the players--had a chance to catch last night at Snively Arena during the opening stanza. Before you had time to count the Dartmouth jackets in the crowd. Harvard was in the locker room with a 3-1 lead, and the price of hot dogs at the concession stand had already dropped ten cents...
...short, you can't count on calendars anymore as your easy no-decision stocking stuffer. Charlie Brown, where have you gone...
...Hertfordshire, 20 miles from London. The budget was so low that the BBC seems too embarrassed to give a figure; the star herself was paid precisely $3,750 for the entire series, with half that much still to come from the American broadcasts. There are no sets unless you count some sheds, a car and a carport. There are no costumes; obviously Woodhouse was born in a blue sweater, plaid skirt and sensible English shoes. The filming is on the level of the average home movie, and the action consists solely of Woodhouse putting mutts and masters through their paces...