Word: fuori
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...Fuori is the word in Italian. Out. That's what Bode Miller was after the first slalom run in the men's combined event in Sestriere, a race in which he was crushing the competition. But after Miller completed his first slalom run, race officials said he had hooked a gate about halfway down the course-one foot was inside the pole, in other words-and he was DQed. Although in typical Miller fashion, he wasn't POed. "I didn't protest. It's all totally out of my hands, you just deal with it... I have straddled probably more...
...Vatican. Pius refused the pension offered him by the Italian government, and settled down to live in St. Peter's as the "Prisoner of the Vatican." He died, embittered by his political failures, in 1878. When his coffin was carried to a final resting place at San Lorenzo fuori le Mura three years later, anticlerical Romans tossed mud at the mourners, unsuccessfully tried to seize the remains and dump them in the Tiber...
...death as that of Keats-near whom he was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rome. Uncomfortable for Keats, suggested Wyndham Lewis, one of the many artists who drew Firbank. The authorities dug up his body, reburied it at San Lorenzo fuori le Mura in Catholic ground. Firbank's work belongs to the great body of literature which says that life is cruel, beautiful and impossible to explain. He wrote on large blue postcards and is said to have cut out the sentences that pleased him, then assembled them into paragraphs, like a Byzantine artist constructing a mosaic...
...angry with any decisions made, because baseball is a highly technical game," they watched in awe and bewilderment as a team of Spanish all-stars trounced Italy's home club 7 to 3. High point of the game: Spanish Outfielder Antonio Casals' seventh-inning fuori di campo (home run). He was no Joe DiMaggio: his modest drive down the right-field line was called "fair" by the umpire, but Italy's rightfielder, disregarding the decision, decided on his own that the ball was foul and disdained to chase...
...fuori d'Italia, va' fuori, ch'è l'ora, Va' fuori d'Italia, va' fuori, stranier...