Word: abruzzi
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...first-generation American born of a Sicilian father and a mother from Abruzzi. I have always been proud of Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Verdi, Rossini, Dante and Renata Tebaldi. I was not proud to learn that the very clever "spicy meataball" Alka-Seltzer commercial had been removed from television. I was at first amused, then appalled, finally embarrassed...
Britain's Prince Philip was in Italy in his role as vice president of the World Wildlife Fund ("After all, if there were no wild animals, there would be nothing to hunt"). There was, in fact, nothing to hunt at Abruzzi National Park, but later, when a BBC reporter asked him the color of the rare Abruzzi bears, Philip became unaccountably testy: "That's just the sort of silly bloody question the representative of a mammoth organization like the BBC would ask." Then to the interpreter: "Don't translate that." The way the Italian press...
Many other Italian towns have also reaped a bonanza from the piety of pilgrims. Isola del Gran Sasso is an island of noisy prosperity in the depressed area of the Abruzzi Mountains because of the shrine of San Gabriele dell' Ad-dolorato, who is revered for his patience and submission to the will of superiors. On the saint's feast day, Feb, 21, the piazza in front of the shrine rings with the din of jukeboxes and shooting galleries and the cries of vendors selling rosaries and cold beer. Some 300,000 pilgrims yearly visit the shrine...
...offending shoots and planted a drug charge on the 57-year-old Italian immigrant. Indeed, Carrozzi, who speaks little English, did not even know it was marijuana. After a heart attack four years ago, Carrozzi testified at his trial last week, he visited his native village, Camarda in the Abruzzi Mountains and brought back a packet of canapa seeds. Camardans, he recalled from his youth, used canapa fibers to make thread and cloth. Its seeds are used in soups and candies. "The kids," Carrozzi related, "used to carry them in their pockets and eat them like peanuts." Ironically, only...
...never tells me what he wants," says Sapone. "He leaves that entirely up to me. I search for special cloth in Naples, or I wander through mountain villages in Yugoslavia and Italy looking for 'homemade' materials like Dalmatian felt or an Abruzzi velvet. Picasso loves velvet." Once Sapone delighted Picasso with a pair of cuffless, horizontally striped trousers. "I've always wanted them," said the master. "Courbet had a pair just like them...