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...until they ate each other. After the Carthaginians came Greek refugees and Phoenician exiles-and so on down the centuries. Mussolini banished thousands of political opponents to Ustica, often as many as 1,500 at a time; many were homosexuals who swished through the city streets in lipstick and silk pajamas, performed dances by night or staged bloody knife fights. In the early '40s Yugoslav war prisoners were crammed onto the island, bringing with them malnutrition and tuberculosis. In the '50s they were followed by suspected Mafia hoods expelled from Sicily...
...Union. The fixed lighting system, with a 4,3O5-key control board, is still one of the most advanced in the world, making possible spectacular fireworks and the fondly remembered (1959) burning of Nome: once every three hours, the Alaskan city collapsed onstage in a cold conflagration of light, silk...
...they were printed in Pravda. What Khrushchev wanted to convey to his own people was delivered earlier in a formal nationwide radio and television address, scrupulously similar in staging, and even in tone, to the previous week's "fireside chat'' by President John Kennedy. Natty in silk tie and bemedaled grey striped suit, Russia's boss put in a few ugly growls, but carefully framed them in peaceful phrases. "Life demands that statesmen . . . should not only say reasonable things, but also should not permit themselves in politics to cross the line when the voice of reason...
...suitors is stabbed by four priests, and the surviving principals make off to where "happiness awaits us yonder." Most productions follow the original Paris staging, in which the fishing village became as elaborate as a movie set, and the fishermen went about like oriental chieftains in turbans and silk robes. In last week's production, Chinese-born Set Designer Ming Cho Lee wisely changed all that-and made the opera far more credible. His sets, strewn with fishermen's huts, were starkly simple, and his costumes were equally plain...
...Fossalta on the Italian Piave on July 8, 1918. At Fossalta, Hemingway, who had switched from ambulance driving to join the Italian infantry, was so badly wounded in a burst of shellfire that he felt life slip from his body, "like you'd pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by one corner," and then return. He emerged with 237 bits of shrapnel (by his own count), an aluminum kneecap, and two Italian decorations. It was at Fossalta that he picked up a fear of his own fear and the lifelong need to test his courage...