Word: milan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediately speculated on the political implications in the choice of Seifert. Was the academy pointedly honoring a man for having spoken out against Communist censorship and harassment of intellectuals in Eastern Europe? Or was it avoiding the selection of more celebrated and more militant Czech dissidents, notably the exiled Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) and Playwright Vaclav Havel (A Private View...
...billowing shirt and slightly askew man's tie; immaculately tailored jackets with saucy miniskirts; poolside playsuits that looked as if they might evaporate at any moment. The international crowd of buyers and press applauded throughout the show, the highlight of last week's spring collections in Milan, and at the end stood to cheer the creator of all these youthful fantasies...
...usual, Armani had said it best, but he was not delivering any new message by stopping skirts at mid-thigh. Legs were the hit of Milan. Designers sent insufficiently willowy models right back to the agency and ordered up more and longer legs. Almost every show had minis: Karl Lagerfeld, designing the Fendi collection, made them up in a witchy little F print of his own devising that managed to lend the house's ubiquitous initial some charm. Sexy Gianni Versace went straight to the point and crafted brief siren suits. At Complice, Claude Montana did seemingly endless variations...
...Badalamenti family collected it. Meanwhile, as a sign of trust between the two groups, the heroin would be delivered. The actual smuggling is done in innumerable ways. One example: a year ago, FBI agents examined a load of ceramic tiles being shipped from a company located near Milan to an address in Buffalo. When they looked inside the hollowed-out beams of the wooden pallets that held the tiles, they found 40 Ibs. of heroin. Replacing the heroin with a look-alike substance, the FBI allowed the shipment to proceed and followed it to its destination with arrest warrants...
...before having served a full jail sentence. The day the agreement went into effect, U.S. marshals hustled Michele Sindona, an Italian citizen serving a 25-year term in a U.S. federal prison for various offenses in connection with the collapse of the Franklin National Bank, aboard a flight to Milan. He faces trial there on charges stemming from the failure of his Italian financial empire. If Sindona is convicted in Italy, he will still have to be returned to the U.S. to serve out his sentence...