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...Milan studio, staffed with six associates, is unfussy; his apartment has lots of white space and green plants, and that is where he does most of his designing, "at night, when the telephone does not ring." He weekends at a getaway house near Portofino, where "I turn into a peasant," spending long hours in his garden. The simplicity and the earthy tones he likes may all come straight from there, even if the sun that nurtures them rises in the Far East...
Oliver Tambo, 69, has served as acting president of the African National Congress for 19 years. The son of a peasant Transkei farmer, he studied at a Protestant missionary school and once considered becoming an Anglican minister. At one of the A.N.C.'s modest houses scattered throughout the Zambian capital of Lusaka, Tambo discussed his group's aims and methods with TIME Senior Editor George M. Taber and Correspondents Bruce Nelan and James Wilde. Dressed nattily in a beige safari suit with a paisley cravat tucked around his neck, the A.N.C. president tugged thoughtfully on wispy chin whiskers...
Adso, still the adolescent in flux and in heat, is a bit more complex, and Slater has much more to work with. A mystically erotic scene of Adso discovering the carnal truth with a young peasant girl (Valentina Vargas) might be the best reason to see this movie...
...remark clearly was aimed at Khrushchev, who came from peasant stock and is closely identified in the Soviet Union with the 1960s and with the corn-growing program...
...active, more than 500,000 died. In 1975 the rebel cause turned into Anya Nya II, and in 1983 it splintered further into the SPLA. As their leader, the SPLA members chose Garang, a former lieutenant colonel in the Sudanese army whose academic skills had taken him from a peasant hut in the Dinka tribal village of Wangkulei to a doctorate in agricultural economics at Iowa State University...