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...Chapter 1 consists of three of the Italian language's least printable words, strung together in a scatological drumbeat. The chapter then depicts Antonia, the 16-year-old heroine of the story, masturbating as she falls asleep. In the course of the next 185 pages, she and Rocco, her 17-year-old boy friend, sample a farrago of sex, including sodomy and homosexual affairs. But sex is only one of the reasons that the novel Winged Pig* has become a sensational bestseller in Italy...
...Italy's far-left youth. Written by Lidia Ravera, 25, a journalist for a counterculture magazine called Muzak, and Marco Lombardo-Radice, 27, a psychologist who specializes in working with teenagers, Winged Pigs shows that today's students are rebelling against '60s rhetoric and radicalism. Although Rocco and Antonia belong to a student collective, Antonia confesses that she is "sick of all this revolutionary talk that doesn't mean anything." Tired of total sexual freedom, the lovers settle down together for a while, thus typifying a trend that Italian sociologists have labeled "a return...
Massive Search. Behind Rocco's oft-expressed contempt for the Communists, says Author Ravera, is Italian youth's rebellion against all authoritarian patterns, including those of the left. Teenagers, she says, see the Communist Party as "practically in the government now and stressing all the old-fashioned bourgeois values." The young couple is equally scornful of sexual absolutes. "Twenty years ago," explains Ravera, "a girl had to arrive at marriage a virgin. Now she has to arrive not a virgin. Both are authoritarian...
There were cobwebs hanging from the light standards, and grafitti was written all over the place (Rich, Ann-Marie, Rocco R.) The ancient overhead scoreboard looked like it had come right out of a Reynolds Wrap commercial, and the walls were being eaten alive. Had Herman Munster been a hockey player, he would have loved...
PENSION-FUND POWER. Unlike their colleagues in unions belonging to the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which prohibits salaried officials from being paid for managing pension funds, Teamster bosses have turned these funds into another source of bounty. For managing the fund at Local 182 in Utica, N.Y., for example, Teamster Boss Rocco dePerno drew nearly $20,000 in 1974, over and above his regular salary of $46,000 and the $30,890 he got as a general organizer. Even non-Teamsters share the pension riches. In 1974 the administrator of the Ohio Drivers' Welfare Fund, Dayton Attorney Robert Knee...