Word: miter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a nun discovered Celestine's glass casket was empty, authorities began tailing a couple of strangers who had driven through town. Within two days police followed the pair to the remains, stashed some 40 miles away. The figure of Celestine, still wearing miter and robes, was found lying on its red velvet cushion but concealed in a plywood box crammed into a burial niche in a local cemetery. The miscreants escaped. Back in L'Aquila, the bells rang again, this time in celebration...
...holding back. The bevy of kitschy papal souvenirs include Pope-shaped car air fresheners, Pope-on-a-rope soap, Pope Scopes -- actually periscope-like cardboard boxes with reflectors that allow viewers to see above crowds -- and "Holey See" masks, which are cutouts of the papal visage complete with miter...
Cenci (David Wingrove) is a man fed up with the hypocrisies of the Renaissance Church, personified by Camillo (Roger Kaplan). We know that Camillo embodies these hypocrisies--he always wears a miter--especially since he denounces Cenci for some unnamed crime, yet wants to punish our hero by taking away his estates in the name of the Church, thereby revealing greed. To demonstrate his contempt for this false system of values, Cenci embarks on a spree of killing and feasting, all leading up to his "defilement" of his daughter Beatrice (Susan Kelly). "For me," he says, "life, death, god, incest...
...those trips, Smith met Victor Okunev, a Soviet consular-affairs official in Tokyo. Short, fluent in Japanese, and an active member of the Japan-Soviet Union Friendship Association, Okunev is assumed by U.S. officials to be a KGB agent. According to Waguespack, Smith admitted giving classified information about Royal Miter to Okunev and accepting the $11,000 from him in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 1982. The maximum penalty for transmitting national defense information is life imprisonment...
Washington spokesmen expect that Okunev will be recalled from his Tokyo assignment by his KGB superiors, who not only now know the identity of Royal Miter but probably of other U.S. spies as well. U.S. officials refused to reveal the fate of Royal Miter, but, said one: "We're concerned about the safety of a lot of double agents. Smith hurt...