Word: foti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adding to the booters' woes, the unsympathetic Minutemen tallied again at 50:02 on a deflected shot by midfielder Vince Foti. Foti collected a clearance 18 yards out and knocked the ball off the left post and into the twines...
...Giuseppi Foti, Reggio Calabria's superintendent of antiquities, is preparing to take back these Greek gifts from the Ionian Sea and has been working on what he hopes will be the definitive fix on their authorship and origin. Among Foti's theories, the most probable could be that a Roman ship returning from plundering Greece was caught in a storm, and the statues were jettisoned to save the vessel from foundering...
...Foti thinks the statues must date from not much later than the Archaic period, which ended in 450 B.C., since their posture is the typical Archaic stance, with the left foot forward. The bronze alloy is typical of that period. But the delicacy and realism of the detail and the elaboration of musculature suggest that the sculptors were already moving toward the exquisite modeling that became the glory of classical Greece in the age of Pericles...