Word: italianity
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...These days, she lives in Paris and shuttles often to Hong Kong, producing work that typically melds classical European influences with a minimalist aesthetic. But despite the impression given by her Italian accent - and works like a series of animated shorts inspired by the chapters of Dante's Divine Comedy - she considers herself "completely a Chinese artist...
...Those "other men" were the fascist Italian troops allied with the Nazi occupiers. "From their point of view," La Russa said of the Nembo division, which served alongside the Germans in Rome, they "fought in the belief they were defending their country." La Russa's Sept. 8 speech was the second time in two days that a top leader of Italy's "post-fascist" National Alliance party - a key ally in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ruling coalition - had opened wounds that most Italians have considered closed for decades...
...member of a Naples youth resistance movement during World War II, left no room in his own remarks for any backsliding on what is accepted history in Italy. "All the social, political and intellectual components" of Italy's postwar democracy come from those who opposed the Nazis and their Italian fascist allies, Napolitano said...
...Before his flight from Rome in 1943, Mussolini reigned over an iron-fisted dictatorship. He instituted one-party rule, eliminated basic freedoms, and ordered the killing of political opponents. In 1938, Italy instituted racial laws which helped pave the way for the subsequent deportation of thousands of Italian Jews to Nazi death camps...
USAGE: "In the United Arab Emirates, David Fisher, an Israeli-born Italian architect, is planning an 80-story rotating skyscraper, the Dynamic Tower. Some call it sunflower architecture...