Word: antonios
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...Angeles, Calif. 9 Mike Haas QB Sun Prairie, Wisc. 10 John Zurasky SE Mercer, Ps. 11 Mike Kinger ADJ Beaver Falls, Pa. 11 Gregg Tyson SE Lafayotte Hill, Pa. 12 Steve Anderson DE San Leandro, Calif. 13 Andrew Marctz PK Woodbridge, Calif. 14 Robert Santiago WB San Antonio, Texas 15 Jerry Leone ADJ Franklin, Mass. 16 Rick Patton FS Mendham, N.J. 17 Patrick Coyne SE Pittsburgh, Pa. 18 K.C. Smith ADJ Deerfield, Mass. 19 Kevin Mohan ADJ Milford, Mass. 20 Chuck Shirey SE Waterloo, Iowa 21 Dean Givas FB Sacramento, Calif. 21 Tim Manges WB Fort Wayne, Ind. 22 Mike...
...century, the seems as obsolete as the hand crank. In 1909 the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti decided that "the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace." Fellow Futurist Antonio Sant'Elia drew plans for a Utopia of skyscrapers pierced by freeway ramps built of concrete and gleaming steel...
...Antonio Salieri, the 18th century Italian composer whom Peter Shaffer resurrected in fictional form for his 1979 play Amadeus, one peculiar genius was even more frightening: a precious gift and a malicious joke from God. The creature's name was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart-"Spiteful, sniggering, conceited, infantine Mozart!" as the play's Salieri, his contemporary and rival, calls him. "I had heard a voice of God," the Italian mutters after listening to a Mozart adagio, "and it was the voice of an obscene child!" Salieri carried a double curse: to appreciate beyond pain or pleasure Mozart...
...Mozart (Tom Hulce), once the put-upon prodigy of musical Europe, comes at the age of 26 to the Viennese court of Hapsburg Emperor Joseph II (played with a sly, thin smile and a delicious air of cagey indecisiveness by Jeffrey Jones). There the man of the moment is Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham): court composer, consummate technician and politician, Emperor's favorite, a musical lion of Vienna. Most important, he knows his place, as an educated servant among masters of the blood and the bureaucracy. Mozart, fatally, does...
...Mondale team, by contrast, did not start poring over the records of any potential running mates until Sunday, July 8, eight days before the Democratic Convention was to begin. The reviews began with the records of San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros; Ferraro was added the next day. By Wednesday evening, when Mondale told Ferraro that she was his choice, his aides had had only about 48 hours to examine her records and those of Zaccaro. They missed at least one real estate transaction that Ferraro later conceded "doesn...