Word: signora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Musicals date even faster than plays, and if one pilfers the formulas of the past, as the fashioners of Carmelina have, one has to be lucky enough to find a fossil audience to match. Based on the 1968 film Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, Carmelina tells the tale of Signora Carmelina Campbell, a Southern Italian beauty winningly played by Georgia Brown. During World War II, she made love to three G.I.s and, to one of them, bore a daughter now 17 and ascribed to a dead hero ingeniously named for a soup can. A postwar reunion of the U.S. liberators...
Throughout his 32-year political career and his longer (33 years) marriage. Moro's private life was carefully separated from his work. "In public life, you can consider my husband a bachelor or a widower." Signora Moro once answered a request for an interview. "My children belong to me and not to the party...
...same forcefulness set the tone of the vigil. Signora Moro turned over the cleaning and cooking on which she prided herself to Emma Amicone. Giovanni's fiancee, and concentrated on working for her husband's freedom. Nearly nightly she telephoned party leaders, demanding that they agree to a negotiated release. When the Red Brigades in a communiqué criticized Moro's political career and personal life, she reacted by furiously smashing a vase of flowers...
...Signora Tattilo bought the pictures from Milan Photographic Agent Settimio Garritano (for, she claims, "more than $34,000 and less than $51,000") and saved them for the rainy day of Playboy's Italian appearance. Others put the price far higher and far lower. The Italian newsmagazine Panorama purchased two black-and-white reproductions for an undisclosed sum. Exclusive rights to the portfolio were being hawked in other European countries and the U.S. for fees reportedly as high as $62,000. By week's end, the sole confirmed taker was Paris' France Dimanche, which says that...
Security men almost outnumbered the guests at the Guy de Rothschild chateau outside Paris-and with good reason. A dazzle of diamonds winked and twinkled in all directions, from hair, hands, necks and bosoms. The Duchess of Windsor's were canary. Signora Gianni Agnelli's stones coruscated white, pink and green. But Elizabeth Taylor outshone everyone at the costume ball with the 69.4-carat, million-dollar "Burton Diamond" at her throat, and her black hair caught up in a net studded with 1,000 small diamonds and edged with 25 larger ones. Perhaps to relieve the monotony...