Word: bocca
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...delirious with pain, Robert Hughes was visited by Death. "He was sitting at a desk, like a banker. He made no gesture, but he opened his mouth and I looked right down his throat, which distended [an error occurred while processing this directive] to become a tunnel: the bocca d'inferno of old Christian art." So Hughes begins his new memoir, Things I Didn't Know, quite literally with a bang. The accident took place in 1999 on a deserted road in Western Australia, where the eminent art critic, author and television personality (The Shock of the New, Goya...
Schooling accounts for the Latins' superb technique; their culture supplies the rest. A love of movement, says A.B.T. artistic director Kevin McKenzie, "is part of the daily fabric of their lives." Adds A.B.T.'s Julio Bocca, who is from Argentina: "We improvise a lot. Our kind of living is very fresh and spontaneous." And Latins are never shy about injecting a little drama. "We try harder to be actresses in the roles we dance," says Mary Carmen Catoya, a Venezuelan with Miami City Ballet, "to seduce the audience a little more, make our eyes talk a little more...
...tourism for the city of Rimini, was one of the first to call for the junior minister's resignation. People wondered why the patriot manqué drives an Audi rather than a Lancia, and whether his former marriage to a German woman influenced his feelings. Says Bernabò Bocca, president of Federalberghi, the main association of Italian hotels: "It looks like he had a problem with his wife and decided to take it out on a whole populace." At the October Fest bar on the Rimini coast, owner Roberto Drudi insists "we have no problem with Germans." He hopes...