Word: giovanni
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...maybe Maria was ready to quit. She had married Giovanni Meneghini, a Veronese businessman 28 years her senior, who adored her but soon bored her. Walter Legge, then head of EMI records, liked to tell a story about a late night conversation with them: "Wooler undervests visible beneath their nightwear, [they were] reading Italian illustrateds." Callas decided to become Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday was a favorite film) and lost 62 Ibs. in two years. In 1956 Callas met Elsa Maxwell, who swept her into European café society and the next year introduced her to Aristotle Onassis...
...kidnaping of the judge, carried out once again by the Red Brigades, sadly recalled the Moro affair. The victim in this case was Magistrate Guido Giovanni D'Urso, responsible for overseeing the assignment of prisoners in Italy's penitentiaries. The terrorists struck a fortnight before Christmas and have issued "communiqués" with photographs of D'Urso, gaunt and unshaven, seated before a Red Brigades flag and looking much as Moro did during his captivity. The brigatisti have threatened to try him before a "people's court...
...notion that all human history began at one's own birth, a common delusion, remains extraordinarily strong, even in an electronic and allegedly literate civilization capable of reproducing the prenatal past at the touch of a button or the cracking of a book. As the Italian writer Giovanni Papini wrote about his generation of World War I, "For the 20-year-old man, every old man is the enemy; every idea is suspect; every great man is there to be put on trial; past history seems a long night broken only by lamps, a gray and impatient waiting...
...scandal is the country's biggest since the Lockheed bribery fiasco that forced President Giovanni Leone to resign two years ago. It has already brought almost 100 arrests, and has cast suspicion on the martyred figure of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. Reason: his right-hand man, Sereno Freato, 52, has been questioned about accumulating $17 million worth of investment properties during four years when he declared only $7,500 in annual taxable income. In addition, the scandal has also given the Communists and other opposition groups ammunition against the five-week-old government of Christian Democratic Prime Minister...
That Harvard bingo was mainly significant for the questions that it raised about the Crimson offense. Following the third Columbia tally--a Giovanni Vitale effort just 43 seconds into the second half--Harvard's offense apparently began to gel. The Keller-Sarmiento brothers, Mauro and Andreas, brought the ball down skillfully into the corners. The other forwards, Lance Ayrault and Richard Berkman, set up nicely down in front...