Word: milan
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...slopes this season. Inexpensive winter resorts report that reservations are running about the same as last year. But fashionable places like Cortina d'Ampezzo and Madonna di Campiglio show increases of as much as 22%. Less adventuresome spenders have plenty of high-priced entertainment to choose from. At Milan's La Scala opera house last week, for instance, the season's opener, Wagner's Lohengrin, was sold out at $160 a seat...
...ridiculous go-kart track," sniffed the Milan newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. Thrown up on a parking lot in just 45 days, the 2.3-mile, 14-turn course does bear a certain resemblance to its kiddie cousin. It was built by Caesars Palace, the gaudy hotel and casino, as part of a $7 million effort to establish Formula One racing in Las Vegas. "Everything we do," a Caesars V.P. declared, "is designed to bring in gamblers. Major sports events bring good customers-high rollers...
DIED. Eugenio Montale, 84, stoic, reclusive Italian poet whose spare, often difficult verse, which he described as "an attack on life, with no illusions," won him the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature; of heart disease; in Milan. Montale, who published his first volume of poetry, Bones of the Cuttlefish, in 1925, produced four more volumes over the next 50 years, supporting himself with jobs as a librarian and literary critic for Italian magazines and newspapers. A self-described "journalist," who regarded spiritual redemption as the only antidote to the tragic realities of life, he once explained that his poetry could...
...doctrine and morals, which only the Pope can deal with, have been piling up. John Paul, for example, must rule on all annulment petitions and requests from clerics who want to leave the priesthood. Cardinals need to be appointed in a number of large urban dioceses, among them Milan, Paris and Washington. Crucial projects to overhaul the Vatican's financial organization and to revise the church's canon law have been delayed, and a shake-up of the cumbersome Curia is long overdue. All await papal supervision and approval...
Freni retains a low profile in the high-strung operatic world. She and Magiera quietly separated after Micaela was married, and Freni now shares a Milan apartment with Basso Nicolai Ghiaurov. Says Freni of their relationship: "He can help me, just as I can help him. We try to appease " each other with love and humanity...