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Police with submachine guns ringed Verona's 12th century Palazzo della Ragione while helicopters whirred overhead and sharpshooters kept a vigil from nearby rooftops. Inside, seven of the 16 Red Brigades terrorists accused of kidnaping U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier awaited the first day of their trial in two adjoining steel cages. In one were the duri (hard-liners), who have stubbornly maintained their silence during interrogation. In the other, for their own protection as much as anything else, were the pentiti (repentant ones), whose surprising willingness to betray their comrades has given Italian authorities reason to believe...
...hard-driving northerner, tanned, silver-haired, blue-eyed Armani remains as trim and fit as a male model half his age. His studio is in a 16th-century palazzo in downtown Milan. Despite the surroundings, he prides himself on "de-dramatizing" the female image. Armani maintains that "young women want to dress in a classic way, elegantly, but not a la Dior or Chanel in the '40s. Women today move differently. Today's body should not be confined by clothes that are too structured." Associates note that Armani collaborates closely with several women designers in his studio...
That "European view" had been forcefully expressed two days earlier at Rome's ornate Palazzo Madama, where the nine foreign ministers of the Community had gathered for a special meeting on the Afghanistan crisis. Overcoming their own internal frictions, the ministers unanimously adopted a British-sponsored plan calling for international guarantees of Afghanistan's neutrality. In proposing the idea, Lord Carrington argued that a neutralized Afghanistan might satisfy the Soviets' concerns for their own security and permit them to withdraw their troops "without a loss of face...
...Nazis, she shipped them to New York, opened the influential Art of This Century gallery and sponsored American painters like Jackson Pollock. But after five years in the country she considered "impersonal and [full of] unhappy people," she moved to Venice, ensconcing herself and her art in a palazzo-cum-museum...
Michelangelo's next challenge was to produce a fresco in the huge new hall of the Palazzo della Signoria, to match a similar fresco to be done by his great rival, Leonardo da Vinci. Though neither painting was ever finished, the cartoons for them became, as Benvenuto Cellini recorded, "so long as they remained intact ... the school of the world"; Michelangelo's surviving sketch for a bathing soldier demonstrates...