Word: del
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people [at Hurok]. But they are not very experienced. I don't have time for kindergarten." One of the co-owners of Hurok, President Maynard Goldman, 38, takes a philosophic stance: "Historically, artists are going to leave managements and go to others." Nonetheless, Goldman and his partner, Paul Del Rossi, 33, are suing Gold and ICMA for $4 million -$1 million for loss of commissions and $3 million in punitive damages...
Goldman and Del Rossi say that in the future they will no longer be able to afford the overhead such ventures require. "Mr. Hurok's theory-and I never met him-was that it was of vital importance for him to be at the Met," says Goldman. "He didn't want anyone else in that house." Hurok would book the Met for three months or so in the spring and summer, and pick up some or all expenses of visiting companies. "You run millions of dollars through all that and you come out with nothing on the bottom...
...little later, Republican Ronald Reagan went through a similar R.-and-R. weekend, with appropriate regional differences. At his 600-acre Rancho del Cielo, in the Santa Ynez Mountains 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, he entertained 80 reporters and staff at a Mexican fiesta. Wearing a Western shirt, blue jeans and boots, he greeted guests with Wife Nancy at his side. Donning a cowboy hat, Reagan shouted to the TV camera pointed at him, "Ready when you are, C.B.!" a joking reference to the late director Cecil B. DeMille...
...center of Rome in the middle of the day. He [Pound] was photographed at the head of a neo-Fascist, May Day parade, stepping their way up the Via del Corso from the Piazza di San Lorenzo in Lucina to the Piazza Venezia and the Vittoriana. They wore jack boots and black arm bands. They flaunted banners and shouted anti-Semitic slogans. They gave the Roman salute and displayed the swastika. They heaved rocks and bottles at the crowd, overturned cars, attacked bystanders...
...clipped and limited range brings it up short of what it could have been. An intellectual document is still needed to remind us that revolutionary Cuba, whatever its great accomplishments in renovating its society, is not the "island of utopia" that some people say it is. So far, Vista del Amanecer en el Tropico is the best that has been written...