Word: italic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Composer-Impresario Gian Carlo Menotti had never directed a straight play before, but this was one challenge he could not resist. It was the first Ital ian production of Jean Anouilh's Medea, with volcanic Film Actress Anna Magnani (Open City, The Rose Tattoo) in the title role. Menotti realized all along, though, that working with Magnani is "like working with fire. It might burn down the whole house if you let it go, but if you put water on it, the fire might go out. You must keep the fire burning without destroying the theater...
When Mary sends flowers to someone, it is likely to be quite a bunch. In April, as "a tiny gesture" to Lady Bird Johnson's campaign to beautify the cap ital, she sent 10,300 azalea bushes down to Washington and threw in 150 dog wood trees for good measure. Last fall m memory of her friend Susan Wagner' late wife of New York City's mayor' she planted 40 flowering cherry trees on Park Avenue-in addition to the 44 magnolia trees she had already put there and the 400 other trees...
...that opportunities in Latin America look dark. Last year U.S. businessmen took $32 million more direct investment capital out of Latin America than they put in. Last week in Brazil, the U.S. -owned American & Foreign Power Co. found itself in the kind of mess that makes other risk cap ital feel like not taking such risks...