Word: ils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What was behind Kim Jong Il's eclipse-and his subsequent emergence into party leadership? Observers could only guess. Many noticed that Kim II Sung's younger brother, Kim Yong Ju, once considered a possible successor, was nowhere evident on party rosters. One guess was that Kim Yong Ju had lost out to his nephew, the President's son, in an internal party struggle...
Barbone's father, Donato Barbone, is the editorial director of Sansoni, part of Rizzoli, the second largest publisher in Italy. Among the other alleged hit men were Paolo Morandini, 21, the son of Il Giorno Film Critic Morando Morandini, and Francesco Giordano, 28, a former advertising staff member at Il Giorno...
...robed figure with the distinctive bearing of Pope John Paul II. Young girls genuflected as the Pontiff passed. A sightseeing nun fainted dead away. After all, His Holiness was at that moment supposed to be traveling in Africa 3,000 miles away. A papal miracle? No, a cinematic satire, Il Papocchio (rough translation: Papal Mess). The Italian film features Actor Manfred Freiberger, a look-alike for the Polish Pope. The plot turns on the Pontiffs attempt to establish a Vatican TV station as a means of attracting young people to the church. Rossellini is hired as a public relations aide...
...godiam, la tazza e il cantico, as the spirited Alfredo sings in La Traviata. "Oh, rejoice, with wine cup and singing." That's what Cary Grant, Charlton Heston, Angie Dickinson and other members of Hollywood's elite were doing last week at Chasen's restaurant as the stars twinkled out a little starstruck themselves to meet the town's newest celebrity: famed Tenor Luciano Pavarotti, a sometime Alfredo, who is about to take four months out of a schedule almost as fully packed as he is to star in Yes, Giorgio, a comedy about an Italian...
Such combat has not hindered Moravia's career. His entwined political and sexual themes were assured attention by strictures from il Duce and the Vatican. His latest novel, La Vita Interiore (The Internal Life), was banned last year under Italy's broad obscenity laws. The old national debate over censorship was rekindled; Moravia's gray head bloomed once again on magazine covers, and brawls erupted at public meetings where sections of the novel were read aloud...