Word: brutta
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Italy is sunnily tolerant of sexual peccadilloes; in a land without divorce, why should an unhappily married man of wealth and influence not be allowed a mistress? What an Italian politician must guard against is making a brutta figura -roughly, a fool of himself. The late Communist Party boss, Palmiro Togliatti, left his wife to live with a woman 27 years younger than he; yet his standing in politics was unaffected. By contrast, Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani was forced to resign from office in 1965 simply because his wife made a mistake. The right-wing magazine Il Borghese published...
...doubling its dealer force in the rest of Europe. Volkswagen, which before the advent of the Common Market regarded France and Italy as lost causes, now has plans for 120 French dealerships, and by relentlessly efficient servicing is slowly overcoming the longstanding Italian sneer that the beetle is brutta (ugly...
...southeastern Sicily, the islanders have a name for the bleak hill town of Ragusa: una brutta citta-an ugly city...
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