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...part of his nom de plume, Carlo Collodi. More than 12,000 visitors besieged the picturesque hillside village to tour "Pinocchio Park," a mini-Disneyland featuring outdoor sculptures and mosaics by Italian artists depicting characters out of the 19th century fable like Geppetto the Carpenter and the laughing serpent. Sated with free ice cream, schoolchildren were toted by donkeys past the "Inn of the Red Crawfish";-where the fox and cat plotted against Pinocchio-built by Architect Giovanni Michelucci as the entrance to the park. In other cities and villages across Italy film shows, art exhibits and seminars are extolling...
DIED. Federico De Laurentiis, 26, son of Movie Producer Dino De Laurentiis (The Serpent's Egg, King Kong) and Italian Actress Silvana Magnano (Bitter Rice, Barabbas) and himself the producer of the 1978 film King of the Gypsies; of injuries received in the mid-air collision of two light planes while he was shooting a documentary on Alaska's annual fish harvest; over Kvichak Bay, Alaska...
...Loch Ness, has an American cousin cruising the depths of Lake Champlain between Vermont and New York. Champ, as the lake monster is called, was first reported in 1609 by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain. Since then there have been some 100 purported sightings of the serpent, which is said to measure anywhere from 10 ft. to 45 ft. and to have a horse-shaped head bearing two tiny horns. Over the centuries, Champ has managed to take care of himself quite well. Now two local governments are moving to ensure that no harm comes to the creature...
...deeper and darker up this river that snakes through the jungle like a bird--the "silly little bird" of Heart of Darkness--trailing like a serpent. Mahler's dense harmonic texture surrounds the flow, but does not stagnate it. Joseph Conrad, a riverboat man himself, especially in his Malaysian period, would have liked this bastard child as much as a trip...
After her arrest, Jiang Qing became the object of one of the most sustained and virulent attacks in China's history. She was described by some journals as "malevolent as a demon, treacherous as a serpent, savage as a mad dog." Despite official claims that the trial is "open," it will be tightly controlled; no foreign observers will be permitted, on the grounds that the case involves "state secrets...