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...time in the next decade or two. So the 800-year-old white marble structure, one of Italy's most famous monuments, was closed for nearly 12 years and for $25 million of ingenious engineering work to set it a little straighter. Not, of course, entirely straight--Dio mio!--that would have destroyed its tourist appeal. But straight enough to keep it stable for an estimated 300 more years...
...national TV coverage began, before Abhijith (A-b-h-i-j-i-t-h) Eswarappa broke the streak. Or the sad tale of Lauren Fowler, who, for the second straight year, went out on an item of Italian cuisine. Last year it was biscotti; this time saltimbocca. Porco Dio bee people. Porco Dio...
Ariadne, her eyes large with compassion, tells her husband, "Dio, we need to talk about your drinking." Dionysus can't believe what he is hearing. "Look, I'm the god of wine, okay? I'm not the god of iced tea. I am the god of revelry, a crucial element of the fertility process. The dancing and drinking and whooping and wahooing is what makes the wheat grow, babes. That's what gives us the corn crop...
...genealogy of grunge: the Stooges and Black Sabbath got married (Iggy Pop has always been somewhat of a traditionalist) and had Seattle. The superhip blame grunge on MC5, the New York Dolls and, of course, The Velvet Underground. I would add old-style metal bands like Kiss and Dio to the list of grunge predecessors, but hey, that's just...
...dio and did some stuff on the album for us. She did something on "Goddamn Devil" and "Everything About You." She just came and did all these little things for us, and we just taped her in a little room. But then she was like, "Oh, but I wanted to do a video!"; she was all kind of sad. And so sure enough when we did the video we gave our video producer her number. We were on the road at the time with Ozzy, so we couldn't hang out for a week in L.A. to do the video...