Word: italianity
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...travel funding. An organization known as “Americans in Italy for Obama” had promised to provide the group with plane tickets to Raleigh, NC, Winston-Salem, NC, Atlanta, Ga., and Savannah, Ga. The Democrats received word on Saturday that David Gall, the member of the Italian group who was responsible for purchasing the campaigners’ plane tickets, had been injured in a car accident and would be unable to organize the trip. Dems president Jarret A. Zafran ’09 notified the 190 students registered for the November 1-4 trip of the cancellation...
...After complaining about life at home, he proceeds to describe San Francisco in the way that same seven-year-old might describe the circus—the ultimate playground to run away to, an indie paradise. “Up in North Beach they drink spicy Italian liqueur / Down on Market there’s a lot of hobos and hustlers / Down in Hayes Valley there’s a lot of good restaurants / Deep in the Tenderloin you can have anything you want.” If those don’t read like lyrics, I can assure...
...heady mix of the powerful and the outrageously loaded, Elisabeth Murdoch's 40th birthday dinner on the island. That's exactly the sort of high life former Prime Minister Tony Blair notoriously enjoyed during his tenure in Downing Street. Blair's vacations with well-heeled new best friends, from Italian media magnate-turned-premier Silvio Berlusconi to Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, played badly back home. But how much worse it looks for high-born Osborne in this new age of austerity when Tories are desperate to prove themselves in tune with the Man on the Clapham Omnibus - that...
...Dolemite, the tough-talking character he played in the 1975 film of the same name. As a pimp surrounded by a group of kung fu--fighting prostitutes, Dolemite became a blaxploitation icon. Moore, however, found fault with the term, once telling a reporter, "I never heard The Godfather called 'Italian exploitation.'" Unbeknownst to many, Dolemite was first part of Moore's stand-up comedy routine, becoming a ghetto hero long before hitting the big screen. Moore...
...Music and Art as well as the Manhattan School of Music. Both, he says, were among the most influential experiences in his life. His formal education in music did not end there, however, as Yannatos went on to study composition with the likes of French composer Nadia Boulanger and Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola and conducting with William Steinberg and Leonard Bernstein...