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...BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING by Milan Kundera Translated by Michael Henry Heim Knopf; 228 pages...
...Japan, once a nation of imitators, complain that others are up to their old tricks. Example: a Hong Kong firm turns out a timepiece under the Aseikon label, so that all a distributor has to do is strip off the a and the n to get a Seiko. In Milan this summer, police raided a warehouse where counterfeiters made copies of goods sold by Dior, Fendi, Cartier, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Omega and Celine, among other firms. The inventory included 10,000 gold-plated watches and lighters, 8,500 handbags, 400 pieces of luggage, wallets and purses, 600 belts...
Last week, after a stunning series of raids in Milan, Bologna and other cities, police officials announced that among some 70 members of the Red Brigades arrested, they had captured the entire six-member March 28 contingent. To the astonishment of many Italians, the alleged journalistic assassins included the sons of a prominent publisher, a newspaper writer and several leading manufacturers...
Friends and family members refused at first to believe that the six could be terrorists. One of the incredulous was La Repubblica Reporter Guido Passalacqua, 37, who was wounded in Milan last May by the same gun that killed Tobagi. Last week when police showed him pictures of his accused attackers, Passalacqua recognized two of them. Said he, pointing to a photograph of Giordano: "But he's a friend of mine. We've had dinner together many times. He's a friend. I don't understand .'' He was not alone...
Fumed Vittorio Gorresio, a respected columnist for the Turin daily La Stampa: "Along comes Pope John Paul and tells us that we cannot even desire our own wives." To Gorresio, "Wojtyla" was "attempting to deny the claims of sex even within marriage." In Milan's usually staid Corriere della Sera, Giorgio Manganelli sought to have the lust laugh. Life is so hard for the adulterer, he wrote sarcastically: an endless round of cover-ups, tricks, juggling of the daily calendar, and the need to buy "useless and expensive presents" for two women at once. Now the Pope has removed...