Word: milan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police uncovered this matinal merrymaking after they traced a 15-year-old runaway girl from Milan to the apartment of Giselda Giovannelli, 55, in the Monte Sacro (Sacred Mountain) suburb of Rome. Staking out the building, they watched scores of pretty young women and well-dressed men pass in and out. The women were so attractive that, in the words of one neighbor, "they would give a blind man back his sight." As the morals cops discovered when they arrested Giselda and found her list of clients and 150 prostitutes, the girls were housewives, young mothers, students, secretaries, airline hostesses...
Nobody expected miracles when Cesare Merzagora, an accomplished businessman and former leader of Italy's Senate, took over six months ago as president of Montecatini-Edison, the country's largest industrial firm. The Milan headquarters of the overdiversified chemical colossus was torn at the top by a management divided into two hostile camps-representatives of the government's substantial interest and champions of private investors (including the Agnelli and Pirelli families)-which held equal stakes. Directors had hoped that the appointment of Merzagora, 71, would keep both factions in balance and allay fears that the state...
...unceasing flow of projects issues from his office in the Seagram Building, and currently he shares with Paul Rudolph and Kevin Roche an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art called "Work in Progress." It includes models of Johnson's glass arcades for N.Y.U. modeled on the Milan Galleria but as high as Beauvais Cathedral; a tumbling water garden for Fort Worth; slanted prismatic skyscrapers for Minneapolis...
...story concentrates on the mental disintegration of an Italian pop artist (Franco Nero). Tortured by paranoiac and frequently brutal sexual fantasies, the artist persuades his patron and mistress (Vanessa Redgrave) to rent him a long-deserted villa outside Milan-"a quiet place in the country." The villa turns out to have been the trysting place of a nymphomaniacal adolescent countess who was killed during the second World War. While his mistress stays m town, the artist settles down in the villa, only to become haunted, then possessed by the phantom presence of the dead girl...
Died. Angelo Rizzoli, 80, Italian publisher who left a Milan orphanage at 17 to become a printer, built a publishing empire encompassing ten weekly magazines (20 million readers), became a film producer and sponsored more than 150 films by such leading directors as Michelangelo Antonioni (Red Desert) and Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita); of complications from gall bladder disease; in Milan...