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Europe 1983 edited by Stephen Birnbaum; Houghton Mifflin; $13.95. This is the pick of the single-volume books, a guide to the bests: ski areas, tennis clubs, museums, music festivals, language schools, even flea markets. Birnbaum provides detailed sightseeing itineraries as well as separate entries on 34 major cities. Written in a brisk, chummy style, Europe 1983 is like a long chat with a peripatetic friend whose tastes you share...
...like a decade later, that little improvisation becomes the basis for The Great Dictator's strongest image, that of a power-mad tyrant's lustful pas de deux with the symbol of the world he intends to conquer. From The Professor he salvaged, three decades later, the flea circus routine, now more delicately rendered, that is one of Limelight's comic high spots...
SENTENCED. Giovanni Vigliotto, 54, (authorities say he is really Fred Jipp, 47), flea-market merchant who made a habit, and a living, out of wooing, wedding and then fleecing his wives (he claims to have married 105 women in the past 20 years); to 34 years in state prison, the maximum sentence, plus a $336,000 fine, for his February conviction on bigamy and fraud charges brought by one of the 105, Patricia Ann Gardiner; in Phoenix...
Beefy, none too tall and often clad in blue jeans and tennis shoes, Flea Market Merchant Giovanni Vigliotto seemed an unlikely Casanova. Yet in a Phoenix courtroom, Vigliotto submitted a list of 105 women from 18 states and nine foreign countries he claims to have wooed and wed over the past 20 years, some of them more than once and all without benefit of intervening divorces. A jury of eight men and four women, impressed with his stamina but not his style, last week convicted Vigliotto on charges of bigamy and fraud in his marriage to Patricia Ann Gardiner...
...early 50s, faces up to 34 years in prison. Although he conceded making the multiple marriages (and adopting some 50 aliases), he denied defrauding any of his wives. He claimed he worked as a contract agent for the Central Intelligence Agency in 1953 and 1954 before getting into the flea market business. During the five-week trial, boisterous crowds, often outfitted with bags of food and drinks in ice chests, waited in line for a seat in the small courtroom and a chance to hear the latest installment of Vigliotto's romantic adventures. After the verdict, Gardiner said...