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...Oxfordians have created a readable, comprehensive--and this is most impressive--thoroughly American volume. No centre, cheque or programme here, this dictionary is as American as a Texas barbecue (which, in one of the dictionary's more awkward entries, is called "an open-air party at which food is cooked on this...
Bells pealed all across the congested city of Rio as John Paul's "Popemobile" arrived. At a jammed open-air Mass in sight of Sugar Loaf Mountain, the Pope made his way to the altar, hugging and kissing babies. Two days later, in São Paulo, the fervor of an open-air throng of 1.5 million brought tears to John Paul's eyes...
...congregation swings, sings lustily and sways with the rhythms. "The Latin rite is too impersonal for Africans," the priest explains. "The Zaïreans' Mass comes from the heart." Clergy were chilled a bit when John Paul insisted on a Latin rite for this week's major open-air Mass in Kinshasa...
...chugged along its early morning run from Monte Mario to Piazza del Risorgimento with 50 office-bound passengers aboard. As it paused in traffic near an open-air fruit-and-vegetable stand, a mustached, black-haired youth steadied his revolver on the shoulder of an old woman passenger and fired seven times. Three of the bullets hit their mark: Appeals Court Judge Girolamo Minervini, 61, was killed instantly...
Among the Communist administration's more popular projects has been a vast open-air entertainment festival, dubbed Roman Summer, that has brought the capital concerts and ballroom dancing in public parks. The program has been singularly successful, so much so that it has tended to show up the Communist regime's failures by comparison. Says a former public health service physician: "In a city where mail remains undelivered, garbage litters the streets, schools are infested with lice, and terror and crime stalk the streets, the only thing the Communists gave us is dancing in the park...