Word: giorgio
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...Giorgio Vasari was the Boswell of the 16th century art world. He was also its Sammy Glick. As a painter and architect he outhustled many of his betters for commissions in the courts of Florence, Rome, Naples and Bologna. Vasari had an inflated opinion of his talent as a painter, so it is something of an irony that he is remembered chiefly for his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, an informal, even gossipy collection of biographical studies of the great and near great of Italian art. This boxed three-volume re-edition, translated by Gaston...
...book, rarely the strong point of an opera, invariably suffers most. The plot line of The Most Happy Fella is the kind of story that babies tell to babies. An elderly Italian-born Napa Valley grape grower named Tony (Giorgio Tozzi) is smitten with instant love for Rosabella (Sharon Daniels), a young San Francisco waitress. Tony woos and wins her by mail, aided by the deceptive use of a photograph of his strappingly virile farm manager, Joe (Richard Muenz...
Only the steady play of sweeper Peter Segienko and the Wesleyan forwards' insistence on imitating Giorgio Chinaglia's wife rather than the Italian star himself kept Harvard ahead...
...than the 99 counts in the U.S. indictment. It sets forth a case that is scarcely less complicated than a New York subway map; criminal lawyers suggest that a jury might find the evidence too confusing to vote conviction. More over, one of the chief witnesses against him, Lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli, the court-appointed liquidator of Sindona's bankrupt Italian empire, was killed last month by three gunmen in Milan, a day before he was to sign a 50-page deposition for U.S. prosecutors...
...support of her own centrist Liberals, plus a loose coalition of Christian Democrats, British Conservatives and French Gaullists, France's Veil won her post on the second ballot, with 192 out of the 377 valid votes cast. Two leftist candidates, Italian Socialist Mario Zagari and Italian Communist Giorgio Amendola, went down to defeat with 138 and 47 votes respectively. Veil's victory thus demonstrated the effective dominance of the center-right parties in the Parliament, whose members were picked in direct elections throughout the nine European Community countries last month...