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...ambitious Socialist leader Bettino Craxi. While negotiations to break the impasse continued behind closed doors, the electors went through 15 inconclusive ballots, with the proceedings broadcast on national television. Although Pertini was their compromise candidate, the Communists on early ballots cast symbolic votes for a favorite son, Party Elder Giorgio Amendola; by the end of the election he had received a total of 5,028 votes. Throwaway votes went to such unlikely candidates as the widow of Aldo Moro, the onetime Premier murdered by his Red Brigades kidnapers, and even Sophia Loren...
...succumbing in increasing numbers to the "schlepped in" look. When Wilkes Bashford, San Francisco's priciest men's store, ran full-page ads featuring a man whose linen suit looked as if it had escaped from a disaster movie, it was a sellout. Italy's Giorgio Armani is generally acknowledged to be the greatest evangelist of male unkempt. A disarming, blue-eyed Milanese, Armani, 43, is a canny tailor who knows precisely what each fabric can do and undo. Though Italians call his style Il Look Inglese-to which stiff upper-collared Englishmen might well object-Armani...
...players still clearly exhibit their grounding in other sports, and the result is a distinctly American style that has both advantages and disadvantages. With superior hand-eye coordination and leaping ability learned in childhood baseball and basketball games, Americans make fine goaltenders, agile and sure-handed around the net. Giorgio Chinaglia, the New York Cosmos high-scoring striker, has an adversary's appreciation of the U.S. talent: "There is a nucleus of goalkeepers that are not good-they're exceptional. They could play in Europe now." And Americans have translated the physical aggressiveness of football into near world...
There is no excuse for the kind of flippant analysis which accompanied the announcement in What Is To Be Done? of the April 11 speech by Giorgio Napolitano. The gratuitous remark that from some points of view, the terrorists of the Brigate Rosse (Moro's kidnappers) are characterized as freedom fighters ignores the unanimous condemnation of such acts by the Italian democratic left. The implication that the Italian Communist Party may actually be sympathetic to such acts of violence is not only uninformed but offensive; that the Communists welcome violence as an occasion for insincere disclaimers to assuage the fears...
...author superficially assumes that Giorgio Napolitano, being a Communist, must necessarily offer a simplistic account of "the crisis of capitalism and the inevitability of the demise of an inherently exploitative system." In fact, the title of the talk is "The PCI and the Crisis of Italy's Political Economy." Emmerich's parochialism is evident in his assumption that any attempt to apply "Communist dogma" to a "real social situation" will be of merely quaint interest. If he can only see foreign class conflict and byzantine political plots in the current crisis in Italy, then perhaps Emmerich would be better...