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During its stay, the squad visited Milan, Florence, Venice, Lake Como, and San Marino, a small independent republic located in the Apennine Mountains. Members of the team also took time out of their soccer schedule to go shopping, eat in quaint local cafes, bike ride in Milan, and go paddle boating in Lake Como...
...travel book Beyond the Mexique Bay, Aldous Huxley compared Guatemala's Lake Atitlan to Italy's Lake Como. The Italian body of water, he wrote, "touches the limit of the permissibly picturesque." Atitlan, however, "is Como with the additional embellishment of several immense volcanoes. It is really too much of a good thing." Guatemalans have interpreted this declaration by the author of Brave New World to mean that Lake Atitlan is the most beautiful lake in the world - which is the billing on most of the tourist brochures, despite Huxley's ambivalent phrasing...
...beautiful voice to “Silencio,” in which he and Furtado reflect on suffering in the absence of a lover. While the quantity and stature of Furtado’s guests is exciting, the participation of some contributors is unimpressive. On “Como Lluvia,” Juan Luis Guerra, the infamous Dominican singer/songwriter, is barely audible, to the point where its difficult to discern the identity of the second singer. A soft melodic song with a mixture of acoustic undertones, “Como Lluvia” could have allowed Guerra to showcase...
This time of year, the salesman goes on the road to showcase his new wares at the Venice and Toronto film festivals. He showed up last week on the Lido, a couple of hundred miles from his vacation villa on Lake Como, both to present his Iraq war comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats and to unveil his new inamorata, TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis. When the film broke down at the evening screening, Clooney serenaded the audience with a comic-opera rendition of O Sole Mio that wouldn't make Placido Domingo envious but did wow the crowd. This...
French luxury company Herms has placed its signature style on everything from Bugattis to helicopters, but this time around it has taken a greener approach with its new Toile H Smart fortwo Car, a collaboration in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Smart Car's Parisian distributor, the Como Group. Outfitted in Herms saddle-stitched leather, the 38,000-euro limited-edition car is available only in Paris and comes in 10 colors?from the classic Herms red to indigo, sky and lime. Boasting the lowest CO[subscript 2] emissions of any car (88 g/km), this tiny...