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Exercise in Frustration. The latest crisis was precipitated by a split in Italy's fracture-prone Socialist Party. Until 1966 the Socialists functioned as two separate parties, Giuseppe Saragat's moderates and Pietro Nenni's leftists. They then closed ranks and served as one party in the center-left coalition. But last July they broke up again over the question of cooperating with the Communists in local governments. The moderates, who wanted to stay clear of the Communists, reconstituted themselves as the Social Democrats; Nenni's faction, figuring that the Communists had to be reckoned with...
...California gubernatorial race; and "I doubt Spiro Agnew will serve his full time in office." . . . She looked more like a heroine of the Bolshevik Revolution than the reigning monarch of Britain. But it was Queen Elizabeth II all right-facial blemishes and all-who stood so sternly in Pietro Annigoni's new portrait. Said the Italian artist, who painted a much more flattering portrait of the Queen 15 years ago: "People change over 15 years, and the Queen is no exception." The Queen's comment, according to Annigoni: "She told me it looked better varnished." . . . The house lights...
...however, Bernstein fell in love with Composer Pietro Mascagni's original score, which calls for much slower tempos than the opera customarily is given. (His performance ran a full ten minutes longer than the normal 70 minutes.) Tension and excitement drained away as Tenor Franco Corelli and Soprano Grace Bumbry (Santuzza) dutifully sacrificed dramatic pacing to accuracy, concentrating on breathing deeply to manage the long phrases...
About 200 police stood guard from a discreet distance. Pietro Guli, chief of the airport police, volunteered to go aboard. Eventually he re-emerged with Minichiello, who got into the back seat of Guli's Alfa Romeo, pointed his carbine and asked him in Neapolitan-accented Italian to drive away. Only three miles out of Rome, Minichiello ordered Guli from the car and then drove on a short distance before jumping out and heading across the fields. As some 800 police and four helicopters fanned out in search, Minichiello wandered through the vineyard-dotted countryside for more than four...
...Juilliard building is a triumph of architecture, technology and sheer cash. Designed by Architect Pietro Belluschi and put up at a cost of $30 million, the building encompasses 8,000,000 cubic feet spread over nine floors. It houses 15 gigantic rehearsal rooms, three organ studios, 84 practice rooms, 30 private studios, two recital halls (including Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center's acoustically superb home for chamber music) and limitless vistas of plush, carpeted corridors and lobbies. There is also the thousand-seat Juilliard Theater. Its pop-up ceiling can be raised or lowered (up for big orchestras, down...