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...people. While in the London bureau he covered Northern Ireland. He reports that the mood there, where the population is badly split, is quite different from that in Italy, where only a tiny minority of the people sympathize with the cause of the Red Brigades. Belfast is grim, day or night, but Rome - for those who are not rich or famous - is still a pleasant city by day. The tourist season is already under way. The flowers are blooming, and long lines of cars wind out to the nearby beaches. After dark, however, most of the streets in central Rome...
...grim Red Brigades'communiqué continues the terror We therefore conclude the battle begun on March 16 by carrying out the verdict to which Aldo Moro was condemned...
This lineup sounds grim, and some of it is. Hannah's penchant for using violence to get himself out of stories does not always work. The narrator of Coming Close to Donna bashes a woman's head with a tombstone. How come? Because he gives her what she wants. The end. Random calamities may be the order of the day in real life, but that is precisely why truth is stranger than fiction. Art demands more. Hannah provides it often enough. He does not revel in the macabre: he uses it to create sudden emptiness, black holes that...
...bomb shelter is packed full now, several hundred people sitting thigh-to-thigh in a room designed to hold only a few dozen. The air is filled with a haze of tobacco from the grown-ups' chain-smoking. A grim Israeli soldier, armed with an automatic machine gun and a walkie-talkie, looks on as the children laugh merrily...
...Nutcracker for nearly 17 years, but her performance in the Baryshnikov version had special significance. It was her first triumph after a period of physical and emotional travail. While rehearsing the part, immersed in the light-heartedness of make-believe girlhood, Gelsey began doing something that her grim lockstep toward perfection had never allowed before: enjoying herself...