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...murders of two captured Arab bus hijackers. In October a technician at Israel's top-secret nuclear complex at Dimona, Mordechai Vanunu, revealed the purported details of the country's nuclear weapons program, never officially acknowledged, in London's Sunday Times. He was later reportedly lured to Rome by a female MOSSAD agent and kidnaped. The caper put a strain on Israel's relations with Britain and Italy...
Since he only has a "reading knowledge" of Italian, Brennan said that his other goals for his year in Rome would be to "improve Italian and meet Italians...
...foolish effort to trade arms for hostages, and with Iran, of all nations, will now encourage even more ( terrorism remains to be seen, but the betting is that the global village has come to understand that no society that seeks respect can support or tolerate the savagery of the Rome airport massacre...
Morricone's father was a trumpet player who performed jazz and opera and worked on movie scores. His son started to write music ("dreadful") at the age of six. When he was twelve, his parents enrolled him in the Rome music conservatory, where he finished a four-year harmony course in six months. Morricone remembers that his professor, wary of wasting such a potential talent, told him sternly that "if I did not enroll in the composition course, I was an assassin." He also taught his student that "one of the values of a music script is the pain that...
...composer starts to write, indeed, he can use a little hustle. When Sergio Leone, in search of music for his new western, first met Morricone in 1964, the eager tyro whipped out an old photo of the two of them together as classmates at a Christian Brothers' school in Rome. Surprised and delighted, Leone remained skeptical of Morricone's abilities until the composer dusted off a piece written seven years earlier for an American baritone. That arrangement became one of the major themes in A Fistful of Dollars, and their partnership was cemented, even though Leone still likes to keep...