Word: giraldo
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...York, Governor Mario Cuomo proposed that anyone convicted of selling as little as $50 worth of crack be liable to life in prison. Local police in the state have begun confiscating the cars of cruising crack buyers. Meanwhile, federal agents arrested Jose Giraldo, the alleged primary East Coast contact for a $600 million international drug ring. They also nabbed Michael Phillippo, the manager of a posh Westchester, N.Y., country club, as another alleged ring operative. Police found more than $3.1 million in $20 bills stashed behind Phillippo's wine rack...
...Othello is, perhaps, the greatest work in the world," wrote that famous man of letters Thomas Macaulay. And nothing, I think, has happened in the century since to alter his verdict. Giraldo Cinthio's story of the Moor of Venice, his ensign Iago and his wife Desdemona has, in fact, been the source of several superlatives: it gave us Rossini's Otello, his finest serious opera; it gave us the best of all Italian opera libretti (by Arrigo Boito), which, when set to music by Verdi, became the supreme Italian tragic opera of the Romantic century; and it gave...
...country's most talented architects, was commissioned to design the original Madison Square Garden, an arena in New York to house circuses, horse shows, prize fights, dog shows, a beer garden and cabaret, he found it suitable to clap a copy of Seville's Giraldo Tower on one side and then get his good friend Augustus St. Gaudens to set a 13-ft. nude Greek goddess tiptoe on the Moorish-Gothic-Renaissance cathedral belfry. Beyond its inappropriateness, the Garden tower was a lovely thing and New York cherished her Diana. For almost 40 years newspaper poets, after-dinner...