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...charge of the detonation attempt, the first of its kind in Italy, was Rolf Lennart Abersten, 46, a Swedish engineer who has worked in Milan as an explosives specialist for the past eleven years. The temperature of lava sometimes reaches some 1800° F; to prevent the heat from setting off the charges, Abersten and his associates devised an ingenious protective system. It called for installation of four rows of steel tubes in the west side of the old lava wall (lava from the eruption was moving along the wall's east side). Each of the metal tubes contained...
...this world's a ready-to-wear runway. From early March, in Milan, through late March in Paris and ending just last week in New York City, the fashion corps turns up for the yearly ritual of checking out what's new for fall. The action they see, and, indeed, of which they become part, has the trappings of drama, the slow-motion choreography of a dream, the bleary musicality of an after-hours club at dawn. It also has the conviviality of a carnival, the commercialism of an appliance convention, the congenial corruption of a sideshow...
...runway makes a fragile border between celebrators and the celebrated that is meant to break at the end of the show, when the designer is led out by his corps of models for cheers and accolades. "It's the worst moment," reflects Gianni Versace, who showed successfully in Milan this year after three seasons of apostasy. Then he adds, "But I force myself to do it for the good of my business...
...this observer, the night of the World Cup began in Turin with wild street celebrations. It ended in Milan, where I was expected to report to work the next morning. Somewhere in between came a two-hour train ride, but that journey has faded into oblivion...
What remains firmly fixed in memory is my trek from the Milan train station to my lodgings. Corso Venetzia at 3 a.m. that night was jammed with traffic, jammed with celebrants creating an enormous din. I passed a few street corners where three or four piece bands were staging impromptu jam sessions, complete with electric guitars connected to amplifiers...