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Cover: Computer-altered photograph by Gianfranco Gorgoni -- Contact Press Images
...each year." To guard against a return of the Albanian boat people who were sent back two years ago, the Italian navy is patrolling the Adriatic. The powerful opposition group, the Northern League, calls unabashedly for zero immigration. "There should be an end to all this false pity," says Gianfranco Salmoiraghi, a League official in Milan. "Immigrants are caught in a form of slavery, exploited by unscrupulous employers to accept lower wages, thus depriving Italians of work...
...Toscani, does the advertising photos for Benetton. Despite Toscani's stance as a fearless realist, this Don Giovanni's catalog in Cibachrome is aesthetically inert, and after five minutes about as shocking as a mural of human elbows might be. Nevertheless, it wins (hairs-down, as it were) over Gianfranco Gorgoni's similar photomural in the Italian pavilion, which shows only women's genitals...
...least 15% lower than last year's. But the critics' reviews were mixed. Clown motifs, gold frogging, Tyrolean touches or military flourishes cluttered many of the outfits and seemed inappropriate for local customers who are trying to hide their wealth. In the end old masters Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco Ferre walked off with the honors -- and, by no mere coincidence, the least brazen collections...
After Italian skiers Josef Polig and Gianfranco Martin finished 1-2 in the Alpine combined event, bumping a fourth-place Frenchman from the medal stand, French ski officials tried to have them disqualified on the grounds that the advertising on the winners' jackets was too large. Olympic officials declined to intervene, declaring, "Medals are won on the ground, not in offices...