Word: finito
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...Finito...
...which has two boutiques on the same block, spurns lunch-hour shoppers by simply closing for lunch-an Italian tradition that Manager Antonio Cagliarini explains is "good for the employees and for our type of business. Our regular customers know we're closed, and that's it, finito...
...through Seattle, Horowitz, 71, suddenly found himself wedged in a supermarket turnstile. "I pushed it one way, and it would not move," he recalled. "I pushed it the other way. It would not move. I never saw anything like it. I said, 'Goodbye, I'm gone forever. Finito.' " Supermarket employees finally managed to free the imprisoned virtuoso after a 15-minute struggle with the balky machinery, however, and Vladimir survived to play before a sellout crowd at the 3,100-seat Seattle Opera House...
...Americans discovered England and France, and when too many of their compatriots swept in to join them, they leaped into Italy. On the Isle of Capri they met each other coming and going. They sneaked over to Portofino, but the word got out, and now it's finito. Then they established a beachhead in Spain-Majorca, the Costa Brava -but soon that old Henry James feeling set in again. They switched surreptitiously to Jamaica and the Virgin Islands, and got overrun before they could unpack...
Sirs: I nominate Windy "Finito" Mussolini as 1940's and 1941's ghastliest flop...