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...particular cell. Tossing restlessly on the hard pallet behind the bars was chunky Carmine ("Lillo") Galante, 68, who once aspired to become the Mafia's capo di tutti capi (boss of bosses). As lights dimmed in the cell block, the two armed men settled down for a nightlong vigil. Their assignment: to keep other mobsters from putting Lillo to sleep forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Why Lillo Is Lying Low | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

SATURDAY. While Begin stays in his cottage during Sabbath, others play Ping Pong and billiards. Sadat again up early, walking in woods, stays aloof even from his own delegation. Vance Aide Harold Saunders, after nightlong labors, produces first draft of American proposals. Americans spend all day working through three more drafts. (There will ultimately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ordeal In the Mountains | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

There were 92 officially scheduled shows, up to ten a day for ten days. The fashion follies packed every hotel in Paris, attracting 130,000 visitors, including more than 4,000 U.S. buyers. With blaring rock music, laser-beam lighting, nightlong partying, topless models, onstage horses and at least one fistfight, the City of Light became Hollywood-sur-Seine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Fashion and Show Biz in France | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...Waterston is the most maladroit Hamlet to appear on a professional stage in the past decade. He bears not the remotest resemblance to a prince. He is like a little boy throwing a nightlong temper tantrum. His twitchy gestures suggest those of a puppet on the strings of a drunken puppeteer. His voice is woefully devoid of resonance. He delivers the Shakespearean line like a squawk box in dire need of a lozenge. Add to this little humor and less thought, and Hamlet the Dane becomes Hamlet the Cipher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Dane as Cipher | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

...great holiness in order to seduce a churchly girl. It gets him hi trouble with his atheistic school directress, whom he must thereupon seduce. Equally as good is Symposium, a pants-off bow to Plato, which follows several male doctors, a woman doctor and a nurse through a nightlong rigadoon. Everyone is feeling randy, and each soul present, though perfectly satisfied that he knows what is happening, is in fact calamitously mistaken about who wants to do what to whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Handful of Lust | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

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