Word: foglio
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...Minister with the tightest grip on power in postwar Italian history. His approval ratings remain high. Success in politics, he says, requires the same key skill as success in business: salesmanship. "He is who he is," says Giuliano Ferrara, a Berlusconi confidant and editor of the conservative daily Il Foglio. "Berlusconi is an outsider, the Milanese businessman who became Prime Minister. That's it." Throughout his storybook life - singing for tips on a cruise ship in his teens, making his first million in real estate in his 30s, launching a media empire that helped push him into the Forbes...
...moves away from those influences as it progresses; in fact, the "Scud" universe is now large enough to have generated two spin-offs. Almost as violent and twice as profane as "Scud" is "La Cosa Nostroid." Illustrated by one Edvis (whose goofy, facile style is as reminiscent of Phil Foglio as it is of Schrab), the book somehow manages to make immature, violent, half-cyborg mafiosi extraordinarily lovable. And Scud's silent sidekick Drywall--a little creature whose zippered skin leads into a infinitely large inner warehouse where he can store anything he needs--has for some reason become extremely...
...format is pure TV talk show; the content is not. In one episode the genial, loose-jointed M.C. welcomes a California real estate salesman named Frank Foglio, who tells a modern version of the loaves-and-fishes miracle: his mother, with 18 mouths to feed one night, prayed over a quarter-pound of spaghetti. God multiplied it so generously that there were even leftovers...
...Deadest Dump." After nine days, the police let Lucky go. They were unable to pin anything on him, but last week they handed him a foglio di via obbligatorio-a document compelling him to report within four days to the police at Lercara Friddi, the humble Sicilian town where he began life, 52 years ago, as Salvatore Lucania, and which he once described as "the deadest dump in the world." The police hinted that Lucky might eventually be permitted on the mainland again, but that never again could he live in Rome...
...tribute to him!" wrote Il Duce in a special foglio d'ordini, Fascist order sheet. "Before you, oh shades of our unforgettable martyrs who await him, I bid him farewell. A true Fascist, faithful to order, he died serenely...
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