Word: ischia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tattered Fortune. He is the least of Maggie's problems. The time is the troubled '70s, and as Italy slides toward anarchic egalitarianism, immense wealth is becoming less and less fun. When she and her third husband stay at their house on the island of Ischia, they must hire men to stand on the beach and pose as intruders-in order to crowd out the real ones. Says Maggie: "The time is coming when we'll have to employ our own egg throwers to throw eggs at us, and, my God, of course, miss their aim, when...
...editorial about an annoying individual or situation, but a report by Drs. Roy Swartout and Edward Compere of El Monte, Calif, about a real illness, ischiogluteal bursitis. The ailment results when friction causes inflammation of the bursae, or small, fluid-filled sacs, in places where tendons pass over the ischia, or hipbones. Many victims feel sharp, shooting pains in the legs and a relentless, dominating ache in one or both buttocks. The doctors, who became interested in the condition when it developed in Swartout, prescribe painkillers and bed rest for those afflicted with derriere discomfort. They also urge that treatment...
...take a holiday in Italy to soak up some sun and get treatment for a troublesome eye condition. That, as it turned out last week, was a royal mistake. While the King was bathing his eyes with mud and mineral water at a thermal spa on the isle of Ischia off Naples, his kingdom was peremptorily converted into a republic. Leading the coup was his cousin and brother-in-law, ex-Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan...
...Jack Lemmon) flies from Baltimore to the Italian island of Ischia to retrieve the body of vacationing Wendell Armbruster Sr., who has died in an auto wreck. Hardly a promising premise for light romantic comedy, but then Billy Wilder is a director who makes a specialty of unconventional rendezvous...
...magma presses into new regions, it raises the earth on top of it. At the same time, land some distance away may gradually subside to fill the area vacated by the molten rock. That could account for a six-inch drop in the level of the resort island of Ischia, only ten miles offshore...