Word: flavio
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...providing cash Eizenstat said "had the clear effect of supporting and prolonging Nazi Germany's capacity to wage war." The persistence of a "business as usual attitude" by Switzerland, he told reporters, was "inexplicable." The Swiss do not find that attitude so hard to explain. Foreign Minister Flavio Cotti reminded the U.S. that in 1939, Switzerland was an avowedly neutral country surrounded throughout the war by Axis regimes. On what grounds should it have refused? The report, Cotti said, "is lacking a measured recognition of the extremely difficult situation in which our country found itself militarily and in supply terms...
...three largest banks to compensate Holocaust victims. The banks had announced last week that they would put $71 million of seed money into an account at the Swiss National Bank, but said that they expected the government to manage the reparations fund and contribute to it. Swiss Foreign Minister Flavio Cotti said the account would be established within a week, and would be followed by discussions with business and Jewish organizations on how to disburse the money. The government won't decide on whether to contribute to the fund until early summer, though, when a study on Switzerland's role...
...Naked Eye" opens with cinematic flair in the downtown loft of Alex Del Flavio (Neil Maffin), a Mapplethorpe-esque photographer with a penchant for flowers, crucifixes and dicks. Seems predictable enough--and still does when Nan Bemiss (Pamela Hart) prances in. The Chanel-clad wife of the aforementioned bigot and Senator Pete Bemiss (Jeremy Geidt) has a "teeny" favor to ask of the, at this point, naked artist. The favor, of course, is that he self-censor a few of his more raw shots for the upcoming gala opening sponsored by the Bemisses...
Though it's occasionally hard to listen to lines like "It's what you're not supposed to think about" (the penises of Alex del Flavio's art) and "How did gay people get to America?" (as flight attendants), both Maffin and Hart give strong renditions of what are essentially stereotyped parts. Strutting, proclaiming, writhing in what he calls his "flash bulb therapy," Maffin does a good imitation of an attention-starved, shock-happy artist slowly coming to terms with the hypocrisy of selling out. But by the play's end, Hart's consistently contrarian Nan Bemiss wins the audience...
...cats. Gebel- Williams changed the nature of animal training by developing close bonds with his animals, which range from Bengal tigers to Lipizzaner stallions. Nine of his elephants have been with him for 30 years. With Gebel-Williams retiring, Feld has hired a new star trainer, 29-year-old Flavio Togni of Italy, who performs with his family and a menagerie of 15 elephants, 42 stallions, a white rhinoceros, two tigers and a black panther...