Word: ugo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most eminent figures of our political life marks a moment of extreme national gravity and a danger for the republic." Added Christian Democratic Deputy Luigi Granelli: "The kidnapers have a political goal-that of destabilizing the country." To cope with what he called "war against the state," Ugo La Malfa, leader of the centrist Republican Party, urged swift enactment of special repressive antiterrorist legislation...
...pressure grew, leftists insisted that the time had come for Communist participation in an emergency government. Ugo La Malfa, leader of the small Republican Party and a perennial Cassandra of Italian politics, argued that only full Communist "co-responsibility" could provide the consensus necessary to cope with the country's grave problems. Besides, he reasoned, if the Communists were to return to opposition, they would be in a position to exploit labor and student disaffection and perhaps win the next election...
...government, won acclaim at home for his performance at the Moscow anniversary party. He skillfully managed to praise Soviet Communism while reasserting his own independence and calling democracy a "historical and universal" value. Said he: "It is obvious that there cannot be any leading parties or subordinate parties." Ugo La Malfa, the influential leader of Italy's small centrist Republican Party, praised Berlinguer's speech as "a clear-cut turning point" that made the Communists more worthy to participate in running Italy. Meanwhile, in France, Georges Marchais's Communist Party has split with its Socialist allies just...
...script but died after hardly a week of filming in 1974, at the age of 60. Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street) completed the movie, which, unfortunately, does little credit to anyone. My Friends concerns the infrequently amusing forays of a group of five stalwarts (Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moshin, Duilio Del Prete, Adolfo Celi) who break out of their conventional, half-failing lives to have a little fun. This usually involves playing practical jokes-such as slapping in sequence the faces of passengers leaning out the windows of a departing train-and acting in general like sailors...
...Pierre Hotel that no Fifth Avenue window shopper would know it exists. Ferragamo, a shoe salon, is set back from the avenue and not easily spotted by the unknowledgeable. "Most of our customers are celebrities," says Piero Nuti, general manager of Ferragamo. "We seldom see anyone else." Silversmith Ugo Buccellati is happiest when his sales force entertains only two customers a day. Gucci, which has two boutiques on the same block, spurns lunch-hour shoppers by simply closing for lunch-an Italian tradition that Manager Antonio Cagliarini explains is "good for the employees and for our type of business...