Word: dinosauri
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...Italian society's "baroque" characteristics, it was imported by Italy's hated Spanish Habsburg rulers, and then adopted and glorified by the natives. Nowadays most Italians consider the archvillains to be the bureaucrats themselves. They have come to be known as i burosauri, a name derived from dinosauri, and they "work" from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., but many arrive late and then stay late in order to get overtime. More than 250,000 veterans of World War II and their families are still waiting to start collecting pensions. At the present rate, their applications will...
...with which men cannot cope, from which they cannot escape. Science made banal and dreary these dreams, the cinema transforms them with its touchstone of cheapness, and no one can longer cower awed and terrified before apparitions. Kong, the magnificent ape-colossus, the monarch of a surviving world of dinosauri, stands alone...
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