Word: sandro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restlessness at being the country's largest party but only a junior member of the government coalition. Analysts in Italy were asking last week if the Christian Democrats would now challenge Socialist Craxi for the Prime Minister's post or if they would seek the presidency, held by Socialist Sandro Pertini, whose term ends next month...
...when American critics were slapping the label of neoexpressionism on everything that moved, there was a good deal of excitement in New York City over three young Italian painters nicknamed, whether for convenience or as a tribute to their common origin in the land of opera, the three Cs--Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente and Enzo Cucchi...
...ordered universe came in the late 1930s as chaos threatened the world. While Mussolini mimicked Hitler's menacing rhetoric, the Jewish student sought relief in science from "all the dogmas, all the unproved affirmations, and all the imperatives" of Fascism. His comrade in this search for verifiable values was Sandro, a peasant youth who later became a celebrated resistance fighter. Sandro dragged Levi on exhausting treks through mountain passes, up rock cliffs and over slopes of ice. "He felt the need," Levi says, "to prepare himself (and to prepare me) for an iron future, drawing closer month by month...
...look like Claudia Cardinale. (Or spend time with someone who does.) Italy's President Sandro Pertini recently told a group of journalists that she is the living actress "I admire most in the movies." But despite their leader's enthusiasm, Italian audiences and critics have had a more mixed reaction to the star's latest film, Claretta, directed by Cardinale's constant companion, Pasquale Squitieri. The comely Cardinale plays Mussolini's mistress, and some think the movie is too soft on II Duce. "The film is not about Mussolini," counters Producer Giacomo Pezzali...
...President, would you like to go skiing with me?" Truthfully, Italian President Sandro Pertini, 87, does not like skiing much. But the caller was an old and persuasive friend, Pope John Paul II, 64. So last week, by government jet and helicopter, the two were off for a brief ski trip and, said the Pope, "a little fresh air" on the slopes of the Adamello mountain range (which had been considerately cleared of other tourists). Sportily dressed in blue pants and windbreaker, sunglasses and red boots, John Paul made his first known ski outing since becoming Pope six years...