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Whether turning out sleek cameras or sophisticated cars, Italy has been the acknowledged capital of industrial design for a decade. Products penciled on Milan drawing boards seem to appear in museum collections even before they reach the assembly line. Now, thanks to a furniture group called Memphis, Milan is also the focus of the design world's hot new controversy...
...undertaken one of his better-known leftist carnivals. Accidental Death of an Anarchist, written in 1970, is based on the actual case of an Italian anarchist named Giuseppe Pinelli. Accused of terrorism, Pinelli is said to have jumped to his death from the fourth-floor window of Milan police headquarters. Fo suspected, and a later investigation proved, that Pinelli was pushed out the window by the police...
Half an hour after the attack, a Milan radio station received an anonymous phone call. "This is the Fighting Communist Party," said a man with a thick Roman accent. "We must claim the attempt on General Hunt, the guarantor of the Camp David agreements...
Andrea (Adalberto Maria Merli) left home to make good and made soso; he conducts and composes for television in Milan. Francesco (Michele Placido) stayed home and did about the same-though he thinks he did worse-teaching music and conducting the choir. But at 40, the lifelong friends still have some ambition left and a last chance to exercise...
...Flash Gordon storm trooper. The Fendi sisters, working as usual with Karl Lagerfeld, went far afield from their luxury furs and submitted a striking winter woolen overcoat with a storm cape that the Brontë sisters might have worn for a brisk constitutional on the moors. The other contenders-Milan's Mila Schön, and the Fontana Sisters of Rome-also made impressive showings. It was an embarrassment of riches and, as it turns out, a bit of an embarrassment altogether...