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...Crawfish";-where the fox and cat plotted against Pinocchio-built by Architect Giovanni Michelucci as the entrance to the park. In other cities and villages across Italy film shows, art exhibits and seminars are extolling the magic of the story, while the Italian Soccer Federation adopted Pinocchio as its emblem for European Cup matches...
Standing at the wooden lectern, beneath the emblem of a silver Polish eagle and a crucifix, Walesa told the delegates: "I am in the union to win battles and not to lose them. But if we do not have a strong leadership, we shall be losing battles." He added: "This will be my dictatorship for the coming two years. When we have nothing, and are headed for a clash quite soon, we have to be hasty and somewhat dictatorial." Criticizing the delegates for their internal bickering, he said that some of them were acting "like a bunch of clowns...
...groom himself had to put up with a little good-natured palace revolution. His brothers Andrew and Edward got hold of a dozen balloons emblazoned with the Prince of Wales emblem, borrowed lipstick from a lady-in-waiting to scrawl a JUST MARRIED sign, and got up the royal buggy so that Charles and Diana looked like a couple of nine-to-fivers heading for a week at Brighton...
...indulgence of high-gloss entrepreneurs, Hollywood types and high rollers, as it was only three or four years ago-the most conspicuous of consumptions, to be sniffed from the most chic of coffee tables through crisp, rolled-up $100 bills. Today, in part precisely because it is such an emblem of wealth and status, coke is the drug of choice for perhaps millions of solid, conventional and often upwardly mobile citizens-lawyers, businessmen, students, government bureaucrats, politicians, policemen, secretaries, bankers, mechanics, real estate brokers, waitresses. Largely unchecked by law enforcement, a veritable blizzard of the white powder is blowing through...
...awareness of the "pace of social change" occasionally "acute" but more often "naive," and admits: "Without a critic's coercion, no man is a true bellwether for a century, and Channing may not always place his hand consciously on the pulse of his age." When Channing fails as an emblem of his generation. Delbanco shifts to a discussion of America in the nineteenth century, and with thoughtfulness and clarity, connects the dilemmas of this period to those of the twentieth century. When the author declares that "America has become a collection of self-interested combattants swirling about one another...