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...early 1960s Maurizio Pollini of Milan, Italy, looked like the keyboard's most glamorous Cinderella since Van Cliburn of Kilgore, Texas, conquered Moscow. At 18, Pollini beat out a field of 78 to win the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. He was promptly whisked off to recording studios in London, and the result-an LP of the Chopin Concerto No. 1-brought critical raves on both sides of the Atlantic. Concert bookings were thrust upon...
...that stretched before him would have been the sheerest fantasy fulfillment. But for Pollini, there were two things wrong: it came too easily and too soon. He astonished musical observers by turning his back on celebrity, suspending all recording activity and curtailing most of his concerts. He returned to Milan for a few more years of musical study and reflection; he sought out the reclusive pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli for lessons; he read philosophy and pursued his passion for chess...
...Government had been planning to build its prosecution around the testimony of Giorgio Ambrosoli, who had been appointed by a Rome court to liquidate the Sindona-controlled Italian banks that had collapsed along with Franklin National. But last July, Ambrosoli was killed in Milan, and Italian police have not charged anyone with the shooting...
...lurid preliminaries, Sindona's trial turned out to be largely a cram course for the jury in accounting and the subtleties of foreign exchange trading. "This trial," complained a reporter from Milan, "it is arithmetical, not passionate." Still it did have its moments. The star witnesses against Sindona were Carlo Bordoni and Peter Shaddick, who had already been convicted of fraud in the case. Sindona's attorney tried to show that Bordoni was prejudiced against his client and got him to claim that Sindona had tried to rape his wife. Having provoked the charge, the defense denied that...
Still, the reporting from Milan last week was more businesslike than in the past. The Times, the Post and Women 's Wear all wrote about how high inflation was inhibiting high fashion. Said Morris: "I write for the lady in Larchmont who is having her breakfast." One reason the coverage was subdued was the absence of any explosive new trends. There was nothing that remotely approached the magnitude of Dior's 1947 "new look" (long, full skirts with tiny waists) or the miniskirt in 1965 or Saint Laurent's 1976 peasant look. Indeed, the dragons were hedging...