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...Haig jetted off to consult officials in Rome, Madrid, London, Paris and Bonn, there was some concern that the Secretary of State-indeed, the Reagan Administration itself-might be engaging in verbal overkill in warning about the dangers of Soviet expansionism. In his meeting with Israeli officials in Jerusalem, for example, Haig speculated that the Soviet Union might have inspired the Syrian assault in Lebanon possibly to divert attention from the Polish crisis. The consensus of Western diplomats in the Middle East is that the Syrians acted on their...
...economy food-hot steak on some flights instead of cold chicken-and free drinks. Club-class seats, though, are the same size as in the economy class. Fares will be 25% to 40% cheaper than first-class fares, but 9% to 13% costlier than economy fares. Between London and Rome, for instance, the most expensive round-trip ticket will fall from $1,180 for the old first class to $741 for club class (vs. $653 for economy). Club-class passengers will be separated from economy travelers by a portable curtain. This device enables the airline to shrink or expand...
...associates, Armani in 1978 decided to leave the collars off his jackets -and just about every other designer decollared in his wake. Women wear his clothes unselfconsciously on the street and in the office. His clothes look as much at home in Washington, D.C., as they do in Rome. Says Armani: "I think I have created a new kind of chic...
Attila is one of Verdi's patriotic operas. Set in A.D. 452, when the Huns were at the gates of Rome, it was wildly successful at its 1846 premiere in Venice. A line in the prologue inflamed the imagination of a people yearning for national unification: "You can have the universe," sings Ezio, a Roman general, to Attila, "but leave Italy to me." In Risorgimento Italy, these were fighting words, and audiences recognized them as such...
...second occurs at the close of the first act. An old man appears to Attila in a dream, barring the Hun's way to Rome. "You are appointed as scourge only against mankind," he tells him, in tones that forecast the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlos. "This is the territory of the gods." When Attila encounters the man-historically, Pope Leo I-in the flesh, he hears the same words, set to the same melody, which Verdi has also used in that scene to raise the curtain on Attila's uneasy slumber. The act ends with a majestic...