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Georgie O'Donnell, a pretty Irish lass who has immigrated to America and promptly gone blind, hears a familiar voice one day on the streets of turn-of-the-century New York City. Could it be? Yes, it is! "Marco Santorelli," she cries. "We danced on the boat coming over!" Marco, an Italian immigrant who is working his way up in the trucking business, has just had a coincidental reunion of his own-with Maud Charteris (Faye Dunaway), a rich actress for whom he once worked as a gardener in Italy. And talk about a small world: Marco...
Duarte's move was hailed by Bishop Marco René Revalo Contreras, president of the Salvadoran Episcopal Conference, as "a decisive moment that could permit a suspension of the bloodbath in our country." Said Mark Falcoff, a resident fellow at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: "Duarte is showing a kind of brilliance and political imagination that U.S. Presidents sometimes lack...
...gladiatorial physique seems a match for the colossal arena where men once fought and died. Yet brawn alone did not make Italy's Francesco Damiani, 25, the European champion in the amateur super-heavyweight division. Much of the credit belongs to his older brother Marco, who struggled to become a world-class boxer despite the handicaps imposed by childhood polio. Realizing at last that the dream was beyond his grasp, Marco pushed the oversize, underachieving Francesco into the ring instead. Says the younger brother now: "I would love to have seen Marco prove himself...
...Venice Biennale is the longest-running festival-cum-survey in modern art. The first one was held in 1895, and the 41st opened this month in its three dozen national pavilions, set in the public gardens a few minutes by vaporetto from Piazza San Marco. It is, as always, a hotchpotch with some loose thematic strands. The ostensible subject for 1984 is "Art and the Arts"-painting, sculpture and their connections to other media, to their own history, to architecture, and so on. Almost anything can be gathered under such an umbrella, and nearly everything has been, from plaster Apollos...
...Joseph Wilson, a managing director of Merrill Lynch, thought up the zero option one morning two years ago while taking a shower in his winter home on Florida's Marco Island. Says he: "It occurred to me as the water poured over my head." Returning to New York City, Wilson managed to convince his company that the idea, though untried...