Word: vesuvius
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picture evokes painful memories of the comparable photo of Aldo Moro before he was murdered by his Red Brigades abductors last year. More than that, if the allegations were even partly true, they would set off a Vesuvius of scandal. The group claiming to hold Sindona, the Proletarian Committee of Subversion for Better Justice, is unknown to Italian police, and some authorities still believe Sindona may be only pretending. Lawyer Guzzi theorizes that the kidnapers may be on a fishing expedition, seeking incriminating evidence that could be used for extortion. Says he: "I don't believe for one moment...
Volcanically speaking, the eruption of Vesuvius on Aug. 24, A.D. 79, was a squib compared with the more recent explosions of Krakatoa or Mont Pelée. But no seismic event has ever had wider cultural repercussions. Buried under 12 ft. of deadly ash and scoriae, the city of Pompeii-a flourishing town on the Bay of Naples, filled with rich men's villas, tradesmen's houses and the workshops of the poor-was in the moment of its snuffing-out turned into the most complete social time capsule left by the Roman world. Since major excavations...
...uncle Massimo is a concert cellist," says Amfitheatrof, "and when I introduced myself to Rostropovich, he cried, 'Your face is like Mass-eemo, and Mass-eemo is my dear friend.' It was an invitation to the extraordinary warmth that pours from Rostropovich like lava from some Slavic Vesuvius." Interviewing Rostropovich's many friends and associates for our story on the new musical director of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra, eleven TIME correspondents in bureaus around the world found similar signs of lava, smoke and fire wherever Rostropovich has wandered. In Jerusalem, Isaac Stern talked to TIME...
Thera, which erupted in 1500 B.C., blew the top off the Greek isle of that name and destroyed a civilization. Vesuvius, which came to life in A.D. 79, buried the town of Pompeii and its inhabitants under tons of lava and ash in hours. When Indonesia's Krakatoa exploded in 1883, it killed 35,000 people and released with a single blast the energy equivalent of 20,000 Hiroshima bombs...
...well as he does. Zaire's President Mobutu reminds Mailer of "a snake around a stick." Fight Promoter Don King's intellectual pretensions are pricked by simply quoting his pronunciation of the German philosopher "Knees Itch." George Plimpton's genteel competitiveness makes him "a smokeless Vesuvius...