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ITALY. Senator Umberto Bossi, a onetime leftist, hit the big time in the spring of 1990 when his ultra-conservative Lombard League won enough votes in industrial northern Italy to become the second biggest party in the region. As leftist views have gone out of style, discontented voters are turning to the right to express their bitter disaffection with the government in Rome. In a November election in the city of Brescia, the league polled 24.4% to edge out the Christian Democrats for No. 1. In the next general elections, which could come as early as this spring, the league...
...which trains employees to cherish Walt, despise stray gum wrappers, follow a manual that sets the hem length of costumes to the exact inch and put on a smile all day every day. KGB agents have visited the park to line up for photographs with Mickey Mouse. Cultural anthropologist Umberto Eco has studied the Disney iconography. Novelists like Max Apple have produced mythical tales about the park's genesis in Orlando. And so many terminally ill children have made a trip to Disney World their last wish that a foundation has established a permanent village nearby to accommodate them...
Byatt, 54, has acknowledged the influence of Umberto Eco and John Fowles on her work, and traces of The Name of the Rose and The French Lieutenant's Woman are easy to find. But its manifest intelligence, subtle humor and extraordinary texturing of the past within the present make Possession an original, and unforgettable, contribution...
...Item: Umberto Eco's gnomic, daunting Foucault's Pendulum, published in the fall, got off to a fast start with 278,161 sales...
Perhaps this is an idea whose time has come. The intellectual attic is stuffed now. Urgent, exotic pieces of lumber (like Nagorno-Karabakh and Baku and Soweto and Tadzhikistan and Violeta Chamorro and Yegor Ligachev and Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Sisulu and Umberto Eco, on and on) are gathering in the mind from all over the world. They are tumbling out the windows...