Word: italian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sinatra's attitude about all this was simple enough. He was responsible to the world for his music, but for his life answerable only to himself, and to hell with the rest of you. There was, all through him, a kind of animating anger, an Italian street-kid swagger that made such good cover for his black-and-blue soulfulness that it was easy, especially when he was living high or mouthing off, to take it at face value. But as much as anything else, that attitude was a dodge, barbed wire for the unwary, protecting his private preserve...
Specifically, Iacocca's Global Motors was to be an alliance of Chrysler and Volkswagen (or Fiat or Renault if VW didn't want to play), with American Motors thrown in to make trucks and utility vehicles. American-designed cars would run on German (or Italian) engines, and joint dealerships around the world would be able to match the market penetration that only GM and Ford had at the time. It was one of Iacocca's typically brash ideas...
PAUL SONG, V.P. of Sotheby's coin department: "The Italian 50,000-lira note, because of all the zeros and the portrait of Italian sculptor Bernini. The first time I visited Italy, I went to the Capitoline Museum and gave the guard a 50,000 note for 5,000 and was ripped...
Born to what she called a poor but loving family of Italian immigrants in upstate New York, Paglia, 51, said she first became aware of paganism's war with organized religion while staring at the erotic pose of a Renaissance-era St. Sebastian in church as a young girl...
...aesthetic who identifies strongly with Italian Catholicism," she said...