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Since Composer Gian Carlo Menotti launched his Spoleto Festival 14 years ago, Spoletini have enjoyed raking in the profits. Menotti began to worry that they were missing the cultural meaning of it all, so he held a meeting and urged them to "make the whole city a festival." The fiesta-fond Italians took him at his word, celebrating Menotti's 60th birthday with brass bands, torchlight processions and 2,000 signed testimonials of affection. Awakened by a rendition of his own Triple Concerto, the composer sniffled: "Before this I felt like an ornament. Now I feel like a household...
...railroad roundhouse in Mexico City in which seven engines were destroyed. But the government has not let the Left take the lead in terrorism. In the State of Sinoloa in North Mexico 13 persons, including three women and a child, were killed when soldiers fired into a fiesta crowd celebrating a baptism. The government explained this, as it has similar incidents, as an attempt to stop narcotics traffic...
...mellowed since then, and this summer the exile was welcomed home posthumously with a large exhibition of his sculpture, drawings and stage designs at Madrid's Museum of Contemporary Art. Critics hailed the show as a revelation. "The missing link in contemporary Spanish art," wrote one. "A fiesta mayor," declared another. "Like El Cid, the sculptor has returned to the land where he was born and lived his Spanish years to win new battles after death...
...fund salesman. "Believe it or not," he says, "I think I can do as much for people in this type of work as I was doing in the priesthood. In Peru, we were running around blessing houses that had been struck by lightning and making sick calls. We had fiesta Masses coming out of our ears. My God, what they needed was doctors, medicine, technical help. We weren't helping. We were giving them a piece of bread." Hudepohl thinks that the sheer numbers of religious in exodus may change Catholicism; his wife Nancy, who was a Dominican...
...would be beautiful if all my friends of the present and of the past would get together in a little while for a fiesta--a la Bauhaus--drinking, laughing, loving...