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There is a sullen reminder of what terrorism is doing to some aspects of life in Italy right outside the window of TIME's bureau in Rome. The office is just a few doors down from the Via Veneto, the broad, sunny avenue lined with outdoor cafes where the rich traditionally mingled with the curious. By day, the street is still busy, and tourists converge over wine and soda. But at night, the crowds no longer throng the avenue that was one of the most gay and fashionable in Europe. The dolce vita has been soured...
...covering the work of the Red Brigades and the murder last week of Aldo Moro was directed for TIME by Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, whose parents are Italian. The story had its problems. Says Bonfante: "The main difficulty was the 'gray-out' that authorities imposed from the outset, clamping down hard on information to avoid giving any help to the terrorists and to minimize the sensationalism on which the Red Brigades thrive...
Today Cinecittà stands half darkened, and la vita, even for the increasing few who can afford indulgences, is measurably less dolce. There is no dearth of luxurious living at many of the traditional haunts of wealth-from the shim mering playgrounds of Sardinia's Costa Smeralda to Rome's exclusive men's club, Circolo della Caccia, where last week as usual the preluncheon aperitifs were being served by waiters dressed in white stockings, blue knee breeches and silver-buttoned coats...
...stay, the ideal lifestyle has undergone a kind of genteel greening. There is a new concern about ecology, with Susanna Agnelli (sister of Fiat President Gianni) continuing to lead a campaign to preserve the wildlife of Porto Santo Stefano, the Tuscan coastal town that she serves as mayor. Rome Art Dealer Derna Querel recalls meeting several young members of the Frescobaldi and Antinori wine families who boasted of having joined in a grape harvest, including barefoot trampling of the fruit. In Rome last Christmas, a financially strapped family of the nobility threw a picnic in their palazzo to which guests...
...lauding her sleek, faithful, potent Excalibur, which to anyone not hopelessly besotted with Arthurian lore means an automobile. Not just any automobile, but one of the classiest, flashiest chariots to make the scene since the fall of Rome...