Word: ils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...match for the Soviet Union's 43 divisions and 100,000 crack KGB troops that confront the Chinese along a 4,500-mile frontier. China's air force relies on the aging MiG-21 as its front-line interceptor and on the ancient TU-16 and the Il-28 as its penetration bombers; its nuclear warheads are mounted on intermediate missiles with a range of no more than 4,000 miles. Its navy, though the world's third largest, is equally antiquated: its two nuclear-powered submarines carry no missiles. In a major conflict, little advantage could...
...taken the name of [pause] John Paul." This gesture of respect to John Paul I, the gentle Venetian who had died after a 33-day reign, reinforced the cheers that were beginning to roll across the stunned square. Now it seemed to hit everyone at once. "E il Polacco!"?It's the Pole?said one onlooker. "Un Papa straniero!"?a foreign Pope?shouted others. The realization was beginning to sink in that the supposedly hidebound College of Cardinals had done not merely the unexpected but the nearly unthinkable...
...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 has managed to steer the national aspiration to la bella figura toward an image of bohemian nonchalance. His bellows-pocketed, unlined suits are sellouts in the U.S. at prices ranging from...
...answers they go away. A few days later, the villains wrap up their captive in a plastic bag and drive to a more remote hideout. After languishing for days in her new quarters, Giovanna falls in love with Daniel. He too is smitten. Offstage he croons the aria Posa il tuo capo sulla mia spalla (Rest your head upon my shoulder...
...goes to Maurizio's tobacco shop to deliver 800 million lire ($925,000) in ransom. Soon Giovanna is released and reunited with her parents. They sing the triumphant trio Alfin ci ritroviam! (At last we are reunited!). The Chorus then sings the plaintive Benche liberata sia, Daniel ha rapito il suo cuore ribelle (Though freed is she, Daniel has kidnaped her rebellious heart). The police raid Maurizio's apartment, and he is carted...