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...time was his 16-piece series of figures from the commedia dell' arte, the endless, semi-improvised popular comedy in which stock characters mimicked Europe's manners and morals, and lack of them (see color). There was Il Dottore, the gulled pedant; Mezzetino, the capering servant; Octavio, the youthful courtier; Scaramouche, the blustering rogue. Bustelli placed them in theatrical stances on curvilinear pedestals that swept up in rococo curlicues to counterbalance the curves and bends of the figures...
...four days Mexican Ambassador Octavio Paz scrambled around frantically trying to find hotel rooms (all the big hotels were full), a place to practice, and, above all, transportation to Madras...
...OCTAVIO DOMINGUES Rio de Janeiro...
Under heavy U.S. pressure, the Dominicans have produced their own explanation for Murphy's disappearance. They say that another airlines pilot, a Dominican named Octavio de la Maza, "committed suicide" last month in a Ciudad Trujillo jail cell after leaving a note confessing he had knocked Murphy off a cliff into shark-infested waters. When the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Ciudad Trujillo implied doubt of their story, by testing the shower pipe from which De la Maza was supposed to have hanged himself, the furious Dominicans complained to Washington...
...days later the U.S. embassy asked Dominican police to investigate Murphy's disappearance. A month went by. Then the U.S. chargé d'affaires was told that Octavio de la Maza, another pilot on the airline, had hanged himself in a prison cell and left a note confessing that he had killed Murphy. Motive for the suicide: "remorse." Motive for the murder: not given...