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Gucci's success has spawned imitators on five continents. The firm maintains staffs in Rome, London and New York City to ferret out the increasingly sophisticated fakes that are drawing off millions of dollars a year in sales...
MARRIED. Liv Ullmann, 46, Norwegian actress and autobiographer (Choices); and Donald Saunders, 50, Boston real estate broker; both for the second time; in Rome, where she has just finished a new film, Let's Hope It's a Girl. The marriage service, held in a Protestant church, followed by two days a private civil ceremony at city hall...
Readers of dozens of newspapers in the U.S. and elsewhere may have been puzzled last week at the premiere appearance of a new syndicated columnist: Pope John Paul II. Rome was not amused. A spokesman for the Vatican press office, Monsignor Giulio Nicolini, denounced the so-called column, which in fact was a hodgepodge of writings by John Paul on apartheid and other topics, as "inadmissible." No one, stated Nicolini, could claim exclusive, commercial rights to selections from John Paul's pronouncements. - The column was to be the first in a series of John Paul's statements compiled by Alfred...
...part of his mission: "Extending this knowledge to the entire universe." So he goes on watching: a pair of mating tortoises, giraffes in a zoo, the cuts of meat in a butcher shop, the ruins of a Toltec shrine in Mexico, the flight of migrant starlings in his native Rome. Even while tending the grounds of his summer home, he feels the key to cosmic understanding within his reach: "He no longer thinks of the lawn: he thinks of the universe. He is trying to apply to the universe everything he has thought about the lawn...
...believe a travel writer for people who hate to travel? His guidebooks, published under the general heading "The Accidental Tourist," answer such questions as "What restaurants in Tokyo offered Sweet'n'Low? Did Amsterdam have a McDonald's? Did Mexico City have a Taco Bell? Did any place in Rome serve Chef Boyardee ravioli?" Like his unadventurous readers, Macon always feels the urge to shorten his itinerary and return home...