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...sandy swimming beaches and palm-shaded cafes. About $2 billion worth of stadiums, hotels, restaurants and museums have been built or are under construction, a showcase for internationally known architects such as Richard Meier, Arata Isozaki and Jose Rafael Moneo. "It's an orgy of creativity," says Mayor Pasqual Maragall, grandson of Catalonia's most famous poet. A former lecturer in urban planning at Johns Hopkins University, Maragall invited such American artists as Claes Oldenburg and Ellsworth Kelly to make sculptures for a new park system that has become an international model of city planning...
Giancarlo Giannini is the storm center of the movie, and he acts Pasqual ino with sulfurous splendor. Giannini, with eyes of stinging intensity, has been leading man for Wertmuller in all her movies released in America. Like her, Giannini knows how to work right at the taproot of his character. There has been no one quite like him since Mastroianni, but Giannini shows an even wider range, not just of roles, but of spirit...
...judiciary is not beyond reach, and the Mob has a special set of instructions for judges on the payroll. An FBI "bug" placed in the First Ward Democratic organization on La Salle Street, a favorite gathering place for Chicago gangsters, overheard the following conversation between Illinois Circuit Court Judge Pasqual Sorrentino and Pat Marcy, a friend of the Chicago LCN family. What should he do, Sorrentino asked, if federal agents questioned him about his associations with gangsters? Marcy's answer: "Stand on your dignity. Don't answer those questions. Tell them they're trying to embarrass you. Stay...
...Twins have been little more than terrorists. While a college team like Harvard can win with two pitchers, in the Majors it hasn't been done since the '48 Boston Braves. Unless Cal Griffith can pull off a deal like the rumored Killebrew for Bill Monhouquette swap or Camilio Pasqual and Jim Kast learn to throw every other day and twice on Sundays, Minnesota will watch the Series...
Morgan's House. In 1953 Beadle married young, handsome Muriel Barnett, a feature writer who still works at her newspaper job on the Los Angeles Mirror-News. She has a teen-age son, Redmond Barnett, whom Beadle has legally adopted. They live on Pasadena's San Pasqual Street near the Caltech campus in a charming, rambling house that once belonged to Dr. Morgan and was sold by his widow to Caltech. The grounds glow with flowers, some of them experiments in genetics but still attractive, and a patrol of eight Siamese cats keeps watch on everything interesting. Beadle...