Word: vicenza
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...then told De Lorean that a "Mr. Vicenza," a drug distributor the C.I. knew, would be willing to put up about $3 million to complete the purchase of 220 lbs. of cocaine for roughly $5 million. Vicenza, actually DEA Agent John Valestra, would handle the distribution of the coke, and De Lorean would be given most of the profits. The C.I. told De Lorean that once the cash was on hand, the actual financial transaction would be conducted by Benedict, the presumed bank officer...
...scheme was further refined at a meeting on Sept. 28 in Los Angeles' Bonaventure Hotel; present were De Lorean, the C.I. and, for the first time, Vicenza. De Lorean would get the cash profits after Vicenza had sold the drugs. The group agreed that the sales could gross more than $50 million. For his key role, Vicenza would get a 50% interest in De Lorean Motors, which theoretically would have been rejuvenated with the fresh funds...
Dozier was then taken to the U.S. military hospital at Vicenza, where he was declared in good health. With a six-week growth of beard and shaggy, tousled hair, the normally crew-cut general made several special requests to hospital personnel. The first: a haircut. The second: a cheeseburger, French fries and a Coke. He got both wishes, but not before he was tearfully reunited with his wife and daughter, who had by then flown in to meet him. Declared Judith Dozier: "We want to say thanks to all the people in the world for their love and their prayers...
...genre--it pretended to be a filmed record of a performance in a provincial opera house, with shots of the audience thrown in to be sure you understood the universality of Mozart's message. Losey never wavers from his no-holds-barred outdoors staging, using the Palladio villas near Vicenza as an occasional refuge from the bright sun that over-exposes many of the scenes...
...attempt to go beyond the usual filmed operatic performances or made-for-TV studio productions. Joseph Losey (The Servant, The Go-Between) takes his cast of international singing stars out on location to the waterways of Venice and to some stunning Palladian villas in the countryside around Vicenza. Never mind that Ingmar Bergman's 1975 version of Mozart's The Magic Flute showed what enchanting results a modest, studio-bound production could achieve. Never mind, too, that the locale of the Don Juan legend and the setting of Mozart's opera is not Italy but Spain...