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...sidelines, Dukakis, the son of Greek immigrants, is the only claimant to give-me-your-tired-your-poor ethnicity. But this first-generation heritage can also make Dukakis seem like a political outsider, especially in the South. Introducing him at a speech in Corpus Christi, Texas Land Commissioner Garry Mauro said, "Governor, when I saw the two k's in your name, I can tell you we've never had a Dukakis run for anything in Texas...
...Insurance companies have targeted life-styles, beneficiaries, even Zip Codes," says Mauro Montoya, legal-services coordinator for the Whitman Walker Clinic in Washington. Sensitive to such charges and the mounting number of lawsuits, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners will meet in Orlando next week to consider volun tary guidelines that would, among other things, limit what questions may be asked of policy applicants. "To ask 'Have you ever been treated for AIDS?' would be appropriate," says Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Peter Gillies. "But not 'Are you a hairdresser...
...last act, or bout, had the crowd, both knowing and neophyte, in a frenzy of excitement. West Germany's Matthias Behr faced Italy's Mauro Numa. Behr had returned to competition after a hiatus that followed a shattering 1982 fencing accident in which the broken blade of his foil killed the reigning 1980 Olympic champion, Soviet Vladimir Smirnov. Numa took the gold, Behr the silver and Cerioni the bronze. The final bout was won by Numa only after a lightning series of touches, seesawing in the last 28 seconds of a ten-minute contest...
Back in London this winter, things have not been much better. Fast-moving Freelance Photographer Mauro Carraro, 23, who quit hunting crime shots 18 months ago to concentrate on the much more profitable ambushing of royals, finally got a picture of Andrew that was good enough for the Mirror's front page. Carraro hustles hard for his art and the $25,000 or so a year it brings him. During one brief period this winter he broke off the chase for Koo at the Queen's retreat at Sandringham and flew to Switzerland, where Koo was rumored to be skiing...
...symbolic scenes are generally purely so, with no link to existence within the major plot. Action and dialogue on the surface tend to seem pedantic, existing for thematic purpose alone and turning the film into a nihilist morality play. When Mauro has to interrogate Giovanni, a young man who is suspected of having convinced a former mistress to jump out of a window, the legal paraphernalia inevitably gives way to philosophical probing. "Why was I born?". "What is the meaning of life?" Obsessed with such questions, Mauro begins to ponder convincing Marta to commit suicide. The acquaintance with the young...