Word: longo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks, four of the council's seven members had held out against the court-ordered plan, but increasing voter complaints as well as the threat of massive firings and eventual bankruptcy finally forced two councilmen, Nicholas Longo and Peter Chema, to back down. "I knew many of those people who would have been terminated," said Longo. "I'd been to their weddings, the baptisms of their children." This week the council members will present recommendations to the court that they hope will make the housing plan more palatable to its opponents. Said Longo of the ordeal that ultimately cost Yonkers...
...sharp contrast to such bows to the past was the heavy reliance on U.S.-style campaigning. Ever eager to project a youthful image, Chirac, 55, obtained endorsements from 120 leading sports figures, including Cycling Champion Jeannie Longo, and appeared at rallies with rock stars like Johnny Hallyday. He even publicized an endorsement from Actor Gregory Peck. Not to be outdone, Mitterrand supporters persuaded Veteran Crooner Charles Trenet to record a ditty called Vas-Y Tonton ("Go to It, Uncle," a play on Mitterrand's nickname, "Tonton"). Though campaign advertising is not permitted on television, the growth of privately owned channels...
...Joseph Longo, 33, a civilian American pilot, was turned over to a U.S. congressional delegation visiting Angola last week after he spent nearly ten weeks in captivity. Longo's Beechcraft Bonanza was forced down by an Angolan jet fighter last April over Namibia, where the plane was scheduled to be delivered. "The treatment got better as time went on," Longo said of his detention. When he arrived in the U.S., however, Longo cited "bad food, lice and lizards" as hardships that he endured...
Syracuse, the Sicilian city that had claimed priority as the place where the four hijackers had re-entered Italy, was left with two legal cases. One was brought by Carlo Longo, an angry local newsman who lodged a formal charge of "piracy" against President Reagan for the way the U.S. tried to seize Abbas on Italian soil. Said Longo: "Maybe they won't arrest Reagan, but Sicily isn't just an American colony. It's a matter of principle...
...students at the Rhode Island School of Design, fell in with David Byrne, occasional student and otherworldly wit. Moving a couple of hundred miles south, and joining up with Keyboard Player Jerry Harrison, they became the premier house band for New York City's young artistic community. Artist Robert Longo even inserted a life-size cutout of Byrne, the group's lead singer and driving force, into a construction called Heads Will Roll. "Neo-expressionism" was the buzz word for this kind of art, and, for a while, it might have been carpentered onto the Heads' music as well. African...