Word: mantovani
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also seized were Nadia Mantovani, 26, a friend of imprisoned Red Brigades Founder Renato Curcio, and Lauro Azzolini, 35, who had been sought in connection with the murder of the president of the Turin bar association last year. There were unconfirmed rumors that Mario Moretti, 36, the top suspect in the Moro assassination, was also in police custody. To speed proceedings, all nine will stand summary trial within two weeks on charges of possessing arms and explosives-a protective measure to ensure that the defendants are not released while authorities ponder more serious charges against them...
England has given Noel Coward to the musical stage, the Beatles to rock and Mantovani to schmalz. But try as it might, it has not been able to make a major contribution to that indigenous American art form, jazz. Except, that is, for gin and Cleo Laine...
...irretrievably sour. The opera's overture--a sort of bitter chorale in which the saxophones seems to be playing Bach just a little out of tune--sets the mood, and then things really get underway with the Moritat, better known as "Mack the Knife." If you have only heard Mantovani versions, you can have no idea what bite this song has. Stephen Schmidt, the conductor, puts it across beautifully, although the band has an occasional ragged moment later...
...fire quietly burning, the air conditioner operating to balance the temperature, a Mantovani playing in the background. This is the scene described on nationwide television as Commander Nixon peers out over the Washington Monument from his favorite room in the White House. Add to this Nixon's uniformed "palace guard," his isolation from criticism by Kissinger, Mitchell, Ehrlichman and Haldeman, and the result is what appears to be a man overly impressed by his own position and growing more detached from reality...