Word: giorgio
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...Giorgio Armani, the Italian designer who has been placing increasing emphasis on skins since he first used them in his 1976 collection, explains: "Leather now has sex appeal. The difference between leather and fur is that fur is just a dead animal one carries around, while leather falls and folds on the body to become a second skin...
...When Giorgio Morandi died at the age of 73 in 1964, he was, from the view of modern art that revolves around "movements" and historical groupings, a kind of seraphic misfit. He was not a joiner moved nowhere, did a little teaching, and spent most of the last 45 years of his life in a slightly musty, secluded flat in Bologna, the red-brick provincial city whose reluctant cultural ornament he had become. In all his life he stepped out of Italy only to cross the border for a few brief trips into nearby parts of Switzerland. Il Monaco...
...other major modern painter has less to tell us about the tensions of history and the facts of the 20th century than Giorgio Morandi; none, except Matisse, retired more completely from the "confrontational" role expected of the avantgarde. Today Morandi's renunciation of the art world as a system seems noble, exemplary and perhaps inimitable. He disdained all ambitions that could not be internalized, as pictorial language, within his art. This earned him the reputation in some quarters of a petit maítre: a man who, though he said it very well had only one limited thing...
...singing Verdi's Egyptian captain for the first time in his career was no ordinary performer: it was the portly mink-coat model, frequent guest on the Tonight show, American Express-card pitchman, would-be movie star and, these days, part-time primissimo tenore. Yes, Giorgio, there is still a Luciano Pavarotti, superstar...
European moneymen recognize that Reaganomics is a risky strategy. But they believe the President has turned the U.S. economy in the right direction and admire his boldness. Says Giorgio La Malfa, Italy's Budget Minister: "Supplyside theory is an important new departure, which deserves to be fully tried." Even in West Germany, where Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has been strongly complaining about high U.S. interest rates, there is much admiration for Reagan. Says a top official in the West German Economics Ministry: "Reaganomics has reminded the West that by strong decisive leadership, it is possible to change perceptions of economic...