Word: cinzano
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...passing an electric charge through a gas such as neon or argon inside a sealed glass tube had been known for some time, it became commercially viable in 1910, when a French inventor named Georges Claude developed a long-life electrode. One early practical application: a giant white Cinzano sign over the chimneys of Paris. After being introduced into the U.S. in 1923, neon flourished for nearly two decades, especially as an accent for fantasies: movie houses, cocktail lounges, casinos. In the 1950s, when television took visual advertising from rooftops to the living room, neon began blinking...
Such a nice boy he was in Breaking Away, even if he did have that curious craze about speaking Italian and that frenetic fancy for bicycling down the highway behind a truckload of Cinzano. That's nothing compared with Actor Dennis Christopher's latest role. In Fade to Black, Christopher is a psychotic who works in a Hollywood film warehouse and gets his jollies by disguising himself as famous movie bad guys and bumping people off. While emulating Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death, he pushes an aunt down a flight of stairs. As James Cagney in White...
...World War I aviator, 1924 Olympic bobsledder and car racer. Besides driving for Hispano-Suiza and Bugatti in the 1920s, he funneled his fortune into various innovations, including a novel suspension system he sold to General Motors. In the 1960s, after the Dubonnet company merged with Italy's Cinzano, André left to continue his tinkering, this time with solar energy. His sun never rose; in his last years he was nearly penniless...
...familiar face to Belmont backstretchers. The chance encounter with the courier was to prove very troublesome. Three weeks later, a Uruguayan newspaperman called the Jockey Club steward at Belmont and told him that the horse in the winner's circle photograph was not Lebón but Cinzano, Uruguay's 1976 Horse of the Year. That brought Gerard under suspicion of engineering a horse-swapping "sting...
...investigation that ensued and is still under way, it was learned that Lebón, Cinzano and a third horse, Boots Colonero, were imported to the U.S. by Gerard in early June. But the day the horses arrived at Gerard's Muttontown, N. Y., farm, Cinzano was reported to have suffered massive head injuries in a barn accident-the circumstances of which have never been explained-and had to be destroyed. New York State racing officials suspect that it was Lebón that was destroyed, not Cinzano, and that Cinzano, a blue-chip colt...