Word: porto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true originality as a composer. At his best, he adapted the Creole and plantation tunes of his native New Orleans, mixed them with the sinuous rhythms of Latin America, and produced piano works as fresh and insouciant as their titles were evocative: The Banjo, Bamboula, Souvenir de Porto Rico. On the strength of them, he stands as the precursor to the great line of American nationalists from Charles Ives to Aaron Copland. More's the pity, then, that when last week's program ran long, List modestly cut his sequence of three Gottschalk solo pieces...
...worries about terrorism, Italy's more than 30,000 hotels are booked solid. Illegal tents have popped up all along the coast in spite of police fines of as much as $95. Prices have gone wild on Sardinia's ritzy Costa Smeralda, where, at one Porto Cervo nightspot, a dish of ice cream costs $7.50 and a dinner tab of $175 a person is paid without a wince. "Porto Cervo is just one big slot machine," says one bemused American tourist. "Nobody cares." Italian vacationers obviously have the same blithe attitude toward water pollution as their counterparts...
...those who stay, the ideal lifestyle has undergone a kind of genteel greening. There is a new concern about ecology, with Susanna Agnelli (sister of Fiat President Gianni) continuing to lead a campaign to preserve the wildlife of Porto Santo Stefano, the Tuscan coastal town that she serves as mayor. Rome Art Dealer Derna Querel recalls meeting several young members of the Frescobaldi and Antinori wine families who boasted of having joined in a grape harvest, including barefoot trampling of the fruit. In Rome last Christmas, a financially strapped family of the nobility threw a picnic in their palazzo...
...public accolades for the exemplary stoicism he displayed during the 120-day ordeal. A Rome constituency elected Fiat Industrial Aristocrat Umberto Agnelli to the Senate as a Christian Democrat, while the small Republican Party successfully fielded his sister Susanna Agnelli, a first-time Deputy who is also mayor of Porto Santo Stefano, a fashionable resort town on the Tuscan coast...
...Lobito and Benguela, which with the capture of the east central Angolan town of Luso late in the week gave the M.P.L.A. full control of the strategic Benguela Railway, which spans Angola from the Atlantic to the Zaïre border. The M.P.L.A. then drove eastward to take Silva Porto (now renamed Bie), site of UNlTA's military headquarters. Mean while, M.P.L.A. units in the north easily defeated a motley force of mercenaries (see following story) and F.N.L.A. troops at the Congo River port of Santo Antonio do Zaïre. They were also closing...