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Word: oriana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombs, the hard-pressed peasants now have the leisure to reflect on their privations. As evidence, the monitors of Hanoi's newspapers and broadcasts report frequent condemnation of apathy and general slackness. There is also the tremendous death toll on the battlefield. In an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, North Viet Nam's Defense Minister, Vo Nguyen Giap, was asked if the American claim that he had "lost a half a million men" was correct. "That's quite exact," answered Giap without batting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NIXON'S DIPLOMACY: THE VIET NAM WAR AND BEYOND | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

Sexless in Paradise. Oriana stays in command during an interview; she has the first word and the last. After complaining to Oriana that she could never find a man strong enough to dominate her, Actress Anna Magnani finally asked, "Tell me, what do you really think of me?" Replied Oriana: "I think-I think you're a great man, Signora Magnani." When she caught Hugh Hefner in flagrant hypocrisy, Oriana remarked, "Here the donkey falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: Goring the Egotists | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

Hefner and the Duchess of Alba, to name a few. The results have made Oriana, at 37, Italy's leading woman journalist with a following in many other countries as well. She has just published a collection of her interviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: Goring the Egotists | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...egotists do not have the stage to themselves. Petite intense Oriana is much in evidence in all of her interviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: Goring the Egotists | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...Oriana's victims react with predictable outrage. "Dirty liar. Rude little bitch!" Fellini called her in the course of his interview. Nevertheless, the egotists invariably say much more than they plan to. Oriana managed to bring to the surface Nguyen Cao Ky's latent anti-Americanism: "I've never thought that the white race is a superior race-on the contrary. You have to realize that the future is here among us, not among you whites. America should not be called 'the New World' any more; it should be called 'the Old World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: Goring the Egotists | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

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