Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senator Otis Battle: An insatiable man, he puts Liz on his payroll purely to enjoy her sexually, also commands her to make love with others while he watches. But he never takes Liz along on his many tax-paid European junkets. Those choice trips are reserved for yet another mistress...
Such performances have turned Enrico Berlinguer into Italy's new political star (and according to one survey, also its most sexy, in the view of Italian women). Yet, like his party, the slight. shy, introspective Berlinguer is riddled with typically European paradoxes. He is a thorough Marxist theoretician who has devoted his life to the party since he was a teenager. Yet this leader of the proletariat is customarily addressed by fellow Sardinians on vacation trips home as "Don Enrico" because of the family's prestige. As a Communist and atheist, Berlinguer ought to be a rigorous enemy...
...line in West Germany, he may well receive identical letters from Vittorio, Gino, Maria-Teresa and all his other party friends back home. Last week local Communist Party offices were passing out "Dear Pippo" form letters to home-town comrades to send to their migrant-worker friends in other European countries-a switch on the 1948 campaign, when Italian Americans wrote to relatives in the old country urging them not to vote Communist...
After Torres' assassination, Argentine Interior Minister General Albano Harguindeguy denounced a "well-directed campaign from abroad aimed at undermining the prestige of the new authorities and hindering the process of national reorganization." Harguindeguy was referring to what he called "false" charges-mainly in the European press -that Argentina has failed to protect political refugees; many of his fellow officers suspect that the murders are the work of right-wing Peronist death squads trying to discredit the Videla government...
...openers, they look like a winning pair of Jackies, one the actress, the other the Onassis. Jacqueline Bisset, 31, having signed up to portray someone very like Jacqueline Onassis, 46, in a European-made movie, The Greek Tycoon, confessed to reporters that she did not know much about the deal other than that 1) she was "moved after reading the script," and 2) "It's not the greatest role in the world." She may have second thoughts, since the tycoon will be played by that world-famous non-Greek, Anthony Quinn...