Word: vespa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...photo show at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1955 had set the authorized tone for treating global humanity, a tone that to some photographers seemed cloying and official. In the anxieties and feral pleasures that link the Tokyo doorman to the Roman on his Vespa, Klein found his own underpinnings of human affairs. He offered intimacy without violins, civic life without trumpets, humanism with a human face...
...every weekday at 7 a.m., Captain George Tsantes stepped into the back seat of a black Plymouth sedan outside his home in Kifissia, a northern suburb of Athens, for the 30-minute drive to his office in downtown Athens. This time, however, two men on a Vespa motor scooter were shadowing him. When the car stopped for a red light, the scooter zoomed alongside, and a gunman fired seven shots from a .45-cal. pistol, killing Tsantes instantly and fatally wounding his driver...
...Swedish designer then living in England. "She thought I was the crassest jerk she had ever met in her life," he says. But Haggam who had a littie of J.R.'s way with women even then, wisely let a little time pass, then asked her out-on his Vespa scooter. They celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary last December in the company of their two children, Heidi, now 22, and Preston...