Word: campagna
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...real contained the ideal. He did not generalize like an academic classicist. His paintings are full of precisely observed detail -- pebbles and flowers, plants and springs of water. The atmosphere in which forms are bathed is real, whether it's the blue silken light of spring in the Roman campagna or the thick darkness that envelops a landscape when a storm gathers and lightning strikes. (The dramatic mystery of Poussin's foul-weather scenes carries you back to Giorgione's Tempesta.) The architecture of his backgrounds evokes a perfect antiquity, embedded in Nature but not disfigured by Time; and when...
...feel we're champs because we won the playoffs," said Steve Campagna-Pinto, assistant senior tutor in Currier and the squash team captain. "But the whole thing is just fun rivalry...
...general, soldiers assigned to the countryside found duty more gratifying and less perilous than those who were dumped into the chaos of Mogadishu. When Captain Ted Campagna and his infantry company arrived in the city of Jilib, an average of 60 local people died each day, mostly from gunshot wounds. "After we were there," says Campagna, "the death rate dropped to three or four a day." That was a morale booster. So was the eventual sight of villages coming | alive again and fields being put back into cultivation. "As we were pulling out," says Sergeant Donald Grimm, "and you started...
...police were called in by a Currier resident after Assistant Senior Tutor Steve Campagna-Pinto asked the teenagers to leave the premises...