Word: milan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second incident took place a few days later in Milan, where an assortment of M.S.I, members and other right-wingers had scheduled a political rally. When the rally was banned because of political tension in the city, the demonstrators marched toward police head quarters. They were met by squads of helmeted policemen; rocks, Molotov cocktails and tear gas began to fly, and hand bombs were tossed toward the cops. One bomb struck a young police man in the chest, killing...
...pelting rain. "Down with the army!" they chanted, until they joined up with some inhospitable union members at the Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville. A window broke, fists flew, and the chant quickly changed to "Oh, les nouveaux flics [Oh, the new cops]!" In Milan, young people marched under banners that spelled out what they regard as Italy's current evils: IMPERIALISM, FASCISM, CAPITALIST OPPRESSORS...
...found to have two microtransmitters in his office, the head of the Italian detectives association, Pier Davide Tavazzi, called a press conference to denounce the culprit for damaging the good name of the profession. Last week Tavazzi himself was implicated in a tapping case and was hauled off to Milan's San Vittore Prison...
Nauman, a 32-year-old body-artist, video-taper and conceptualist who works in California, is the present Wunderkind of the official avantgarde. His show, booked on the circuit to Bern, Dusseldorf, Milan, Houston and San Francisco, was jointly organized by the Los Angeles County Museum and the Whitney. Its imprimaturs are heavy. There are two long and ingenious catalogue essays by Curators Jane Livingstone and Marcia Tucker, written, alas, in the impacted duckspeak of art magazines (sample: "There is a singular combining of the purely somatic and the archly conceptualized and verbal in his aesthetic cognitions"). Nauman...
Probably not, but women-as well as men-seem more than willing to go back to the aura, if not all the details, of granddad's illusions. Milan's Walter Albini, who might be called the godfather of the Italian Gatsby look, has drawn on the Fitzgerald era since he first started designing ten years ago. "It was a cultural high-water mark in fashion, decorating, literature, painting," he contends. "Actually, nobody has done anything new since. Everything is still based on Chanel of around 1925." (Designer Coco Chanel revolutionized fashion for both sexes in the early...