Word: romano
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father loved classical music, symphonic music, especially Bach, Verdi, Puccini. He played the violin, and he was very glad to see that I started to play the piano. My father was very kind, very gentle with me..." A reminiscence by some young Einstein? Not at all. The speaker was Romano Mussolini, son of Italy's Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, arriving in New York on tour as a jazz pianist. Young Mussolini, who bills himself as "a legendary name in Italian jazz," says he is a disciple of Duke Ellington and offers a repertoire ranging from Summertime to a syncopated...
Virtually the same scene was repeated at a second apartment. Wrestler Joseph Romano apparently fought off the intruding Arabs momentarily with a knife, but he was mortally wounded. Yosef Gottfreund, a 6-ft. 1-in., 240-lb. wrestling referee, held a door shut despite the efforts of five Arabs pushing from the other side. "Hevra tistalku!" Gottfreund yelled in Hebrew [Boys, get out!]. It was too late, when the door was finally forced, for Gottfreund to get out. In all, however, 18 Israelis managed to escape. Nine who did not make it to the exits were taken hostage. They were...
...JOSEPH ROMANO, 32, an Arabic-speaking Jew from Libya, was the country's top weight-lifting champion. Recalled an Olympic committee member: "He was so crazy about sports that he lost two jobs because he spent more time training than working." Romano's latest job was as a window decorator. At Munich, muscle damage in one leg had prevented him from lifting the 430 kilograms that he could usually heft without trouble. He was due to return home to his wife and three daughters for an operation after the Games...
...necessary to say this even if this word is not liked. But precisely because it is conservative, the church is always young. If it had changed all the time, it would have grown old." Meanwhile, a Page One commentary on the Synod in the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano was taking a swipe at "theological speculation," insisting that the "decisive word" comes "uniquely from the magisterium of the church...
...Twiggy. All of which has made Russell, at 43, the most provocative director in the business. Last week the Venice Film Festival canceled a public showing of The Devils in order to head off a threatened police raid, and L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, denounced Russell-a Roman Catholic convert-for his "perverted marriage of sex, violence and blasphemy." Says Russell: "They miss the point totally. The Devils is about the way church and state worked together to condemn an innocent man. These things actually happened. The critics don't like to recognize this, and they...