Word: fini
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spirited couple in their day. Mira Sorvino, whose former boyfriend Quentin Tarantino was recently embroiled in a wee bar punch-up, had her own little confrontation at Cannes. For some reason Sorvino decided to attend a press event for a Johnny Depp-Roman Polanski movie. After it was fini, Sorvino was introduced to movie critic Jami Bernard, who wrote a biography of Tarantino. The Oscar winner angrily demanded to know why Bernard subsequently interviewed Tony Tarantino, her old flame's biological but very estranged father, for Premiere. "It was a cruel and immoral thing to do," she told the critic...
...race. Two were rescued by the Australian navy; one is still missing. "Finding your way through a field of icebergs," Auguin told Paris Match, "is like Russian roulette." While Auguin said he got used to the icebergs, 25-ft. waves and the solitude, his solo Magellan phase is fini. "Once was enough...
...most polished of the new breed is Gianfranco Fini, 42, who deftly transformed the once frankly neofascist Italian Social Movement, founded in 1946, and unabashed guardian of Mussolini's legacy into the right-wing National Alliance. The party, which won 13.5% of the vote in parliamentary elections in March, shares power in the right-of-center coalition government of millionaire-businessman Silvio Berlusconi. A politician of intentionally moderate language, Fini has labored to rid his party of its World War II ties -- but not always with success. Last April La Stampa roused a furor when it quoted him as calling...
...Fini says the word fascism is misapplied to his party. "If we were in the U.S., we'd be called Republicans," he declares. "In France we'd be Gaullists." He believes the Italians who support him are voting issues -- jobs, health care, crime -- not ideology. "There isn't one Italian in a hundred who would ask me about fascism, racial laws and Nazis," he says. The neofascist label, he insists, was unfairly tagged to his party by the press and his political opponents...
...Fini joined politicians in condemning skinhead violence. He said the - marchers in Vicenza should be "put in coal mines so they can break rocks with their heads." When told that his National Alliance colleague Buontempo thought highly of the demonstrators, Fini simply said, "Buontempo is mistaken...