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...This tiny, troll-like creature likes to be called Geremia Heart-of-Gold, and he certainly has a florid line of patter for the desperate townspeople of Agro Pontino who come to borrow money at 100% interest, telling each woman, "My last thought in life will be of you." (He's proud of his old-school manners, telling the matchmaker, "My tool of seduction is my charming mode of speech." She corrects him: "Your only tool of seduction is hope.") But when repayment is overdue, Geremia has no heart at all. He strips one young couple of every piece...
...Sorrentino's inspiration is the Grimm tale of Rumpelstiltskin, the dwarf whose skill as a tailor (he could spin straw into gold) ensnared a greedy miller and his beautiful young daughter. Here the miller is a middle-class man over hid head in debts for the wedding of his daughter Rosalba (glamorous, poised Laura Chiatti). Geremia lends the family more money than they can afford to pay and then, on the wedding day, extracts from Rosalba his own predatory pound-of-flesh interest on the loan...
...missing something. We can’t say we ran out of water. We had all the water that was necessary, we just couldn’t pull it through.”The second varsity, however, took advantage of every meter of water available to eek out a gold medal win—the boat’s fourth in five seasons. No. 1 Harvard, undefeated and untested in the dual season, fell back by as much as a length to Yale in the opening 1000 meters in Sunday’s final. A strong first 500 from Wisconsin...
...coxswain Felix Yu said. “We tried to push back Yale’s move, but we lost a seat in the last five strokes.”Harvard’s second varsity finished fourth in a time of 6:25.9, while Cornell claimed gold in 6:20.58, Navy earned silver in 6:23.6, and Yale finished with bronze in 6:25.34.“Anytime you’re leaving a championship in fourth place, you’re not pleased,” Kauble said. “Our time was a respectable time...
...tequila at all, but mezcal). Much like whiskey or wine, tequila has its own system of classifications. Tequila that has been aged for two months is known as reposado; if it spends more than a year in the barrel, it's classified as a?ejo. The other popular designation?gold?refers to tequila that is flavored with caramel. One of the hottest new brands on the market, XXX Siglo Treinta, is a gold. If that's not to your taste, try El Diamante del Cielo, a rather new and fashionable white tequila. And this time, you can pass on the salt...