Word: ilona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That withdrawal began last week, when 31 Soviet tanks were loaded onto flatbed cars in Hungary. Among those watching the pullout was Ilona Staller, a member of the Italian Parliament and a porno-movie star. Staller kept her clothes on when she posed with Soviet officers, and released a white dove of peace. Ominously, perhaps, the bird was crushed in the treads of a Soviet tank...
Among the 10,907 contenders for 945 legislative seats in next Sunday's national elections, no other candidate receives the coverage accorded Ilona Staller, 37. Under the banner of Italy's small Radical Party, Staller provocatively proclaims that "more pornography equals knowledge and nonviolence." But the flashbulbs really start popping at her rallies when Staller, a porno star better known as "Cicciolina," rolls down the top of her tight hot-pink dress and buttresses her rhetoric with a fulsome display of physical eloquence. While campaigning, the half-clad Cicciolina embraces many of her admirers. Her slogan: "Let's have pleasure...
There was a little glamour once in a while. His father's younger brother, Alan Curtis, was a movie actor married to Actress Ilona Massey, and young Pete spent one summer with them. He had a broken romance too and got over it in 48 hours, Ueberroth recalls. Two years before finishing high school, Ueberroth moved out of the house and into Twelveacres, an orphanage for children from broken homes. He was the recreation director and was paid $125 a month. When he was handed his diploma, in 1955, all 28 of the boys from Twelveacres stood...
...sons, one as an infant and the other as a young man to cancer. But everything in these letters bears witness that he was nevertheless a great knower and lover of life, and that he believed this to be the root of his art. He writes his student Ilona Karmel that "heart alone has never made an artist as the sugary wrecks of millions upon millions of poems and paintings and works of music testify. But without heart, without the love of life, the hunger for life, was never anything that lived...