Word: rossa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most cutting inventions?or adaptations?is the urban guerrilla seen as Mickey Mouse. In Six Terrorists, 1971, a file of them strut across the page, in aviator jackets and miniskirts, equipped with flick knife and carbine: young bourgeois clones of affectless violence, Black Shirt, S.L.A. or Brigata Rossa. It is an uncannily predictive drawing. "The Mickey Mouse face," Steinberg remarks, "is sexless, neither black nor white, without character or age: for me it represents the junk-food people, the spoilt young ones who have all their experiences, inferior as they are, handed to them on a plate." An encyclopedic disgust...
...baroque council chamber of Turin's city hall-known as the Sala Rossa (Red Room) because of its lavish crimson brocade-Councilman Diego Novelli last week presided over an unusual ceremony. Because he amassed a higher vote total than Turin's 79 other councilmen in recent municipal elections, Novelli won the privilege of supervising the selection of a new mayor from among them for Italy's second largest (after Milan) industrial city. The outcome was preordained. When all 80 votes had been tallied, Novelli, the nervous, chain-smoking Turin editor of the Communist newspaper L'Unita...
...meantime, the I.R.A. appears capable of playing its cruel, destructive patriot game to the end. For better or worse, the words that Pearse spoke in 1915 over the grave of the Fenian patriot O'Donovan Rossa now reverberate across Ireland with every gunshot and bomb blast: "They think they have pacified Ireland . . . but the fools, the fools, the fools! They have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace...