Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coverage accorded Ilona Staller, 37. Under the banner of Italy's small Radical Party, Staller provocatively proclaims that "more pornography equals knowledge and nonviolence." But the flashbulbs really start popping at her rallies when Staller, a porno star better known as "Cicciolina," rolls down the top of her tight hot-pink dress and buttresses her rhetoric with a fulsome display of physical eloquence. While campaigning, the half-clad Cicciolina embraces many of her admirers. Her slogan: "Let's have pleasure. Let's spread happiness." Her pitch against nuclear energy: "I warm myself with the sun and with love...
...where he will stay, to the tiny Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, situated directly across from the famous Piazza San Marco. The formal summit talks will take place in the bay-windowed, dark-paneled library of a 17th century Benedictine monastery on the miniature island. Security will be so tight that the traditional photograph of the summit leaders will be taken in a monastery courtyard, rather than at the lagoon's edge. The summiteers will eat well, as in the past, though the U.S. President may enjoy his meals the most: menus are studded with such Reagan favorites as risotto...
...Angeles Herald Examiner (circ. 240,000) has been hemorrhaging money for a decade and currently loses an estimated $10 million to $14 million a year. Once in a tight race with the Los Angeles Times, the paper suffered a nine-year strike that began in 1967 and cost it 400,000 readers. Now the Herald Examiner's 170 editorial employees seem destined to play David to the Goliath Times (circ. 1.1 million), with its 850 staffers and annual profits of $200 million. Though the Herald has much to commend it, including playing up local stories and sometimes producing sprightlier writing...
...local housing authority has purchased 121 foreclosed houses for an average of $37,000 apiece, and is renting them to low-income tenants for as little as $231 a month. Skeptics have been won over by its tight standards: renters must take an 18-hour handyman's training course so they can keep up the houses...
...dizzying circles, jigs and S-turns as once again the planes pop flares in rapid succession. Last week Soviet-built government transports delivered 60 journalists from India, the Soviet bloc and the West on a propaganda tour aimed at dispelling "rumors" of intense fighting in the area. Unfortunately, the tight security around the reporters only betrayed the government's fear of the guerrillas. Soviet-made Mi-24 helicopter gunships whirred protectively overhead, sweeping across the surrounding terrain. From a distance came the echoes of explosions. And a few miles away plumes of smoke snaked into an overcast...