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...Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki became the first woman ever to lead a successful Olympic bid when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided Friday that Athens would host the games over rival Rome. She may also be the first woman organizer of the games...
...skates with a baseball bat, and vendors peddling condom keychains. The 10-hour parade was viewed by 1 million revelers who overflowed hotels and French Quarter restaurants. As grateful merchants totted up the $10 million infusion, swelled for the first time by a riverboat casino, tourist-commission spokeswoman Beverly Gianna pronounced it "a grand and glorious party...
...focus has been shifted from young Pip to the vindictive harridan who teaches him his first lesson in cruelty and deceit. In Miss Havisham's Fire we see her on her calamitous wedding day, deserted by her bridegroom. (The young Miss Havisham is sung by Gianna Rolandi, who has a generous mad scene of her own.) There is a brushstroke plot involving an inquest into Miss Havisham's death, but the opera is really a star vehicle for a coloratura. Argento had Beverly Sills in mind when he began work two years ago. She agreed...
Staff members of Fair magazine are viewing the body of Miss Blaisie, an editorial secretary who lias died at the age of 30. The corpse is fitted with a modish sheath dress and has a typewriter on its lap. "You look odd," says Bahs aside to Gianna. She replies: "Don't you think it repulsive to see our Blaisie, our dignified Blaisie, with a bare shoulder and her Underwood on her belly...
...money on each face." One episode tells of "Babs," a leggy New York career girl and Fair staffer who marries an Italian-American political boss and goes with him to Sicily, where women have a considerably different role from the one she is accustomed to. The narrator is Gianna, another Fair lady who is fleeing an unhappy past in Palermo. She is shocked to find that the magazine invokes "the phantom of beauty" only to justify "the worst kind of commercialism"-catering to its readers' feminine whims...