Word: italianity
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...begin this perilous October crossing, and along the way he has gone without food and water plenty of times. His optimism seems rewarded four hours later, when the young Egyptian piloting the green-and-white fishing boat spots the lights of Malta, steers left, and announces that the Italian coast is just 10 hours away. But there's still no land in sight the following afternoon when the motor stutters and dies. The boatman tries a few times to restart it and a few of the men fiddle with the thing, but it's no use. Women scream that they...
Another highlight of the exhibit is an elaborately decorated woman’s dress, which reveals the international nature of trade at the time. The dress is appliquéd with English brass buttons, cowry shells from the Pacific, brilliantly blue Italian glass beads, and colorfully dyed porcupine quills...
...hospital room are several friends from his youth. Among those present are his ex-wife, two of his former mistresses, an old friend who has become a family man with a very young wife and two daughters and a gay friend who brings his Italian lover. Together they reminisce about old times and slowly they realize how, over the years, they have each compromised their principles little by little, until they are barely recognizable as the people that they once were...
ACROSS 1. Insecticide target 6. “Say Hi to ___” (FM feature) 10. “Kudlow and Cramer” network 14. Dry Italian wine 15. List ending abbr. 16. AOL subscriber 17. “In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes” speaker 19. Beginner 20. Dog breed Shar-___ 21. Put on 22. H. H. ___ (45-Across’s real name) 23. Subject for a 1962 58-Across made by 17-Across 28. Polite refusal 30. Leather punching tools 31. “Enter...
...Corelli, 37, has risen so rapidly that in Italy he is nicknamed 'the Sputnik Tenor.' One reason is that he has a classically handsome head set on a 6-ft. 2-in., 185-lb. frame (his other Italian nickname is 'Golden Calves'); another is that he can sing superbly ... Trained as a naval engineer, Corelli did not start studying singing until he was 24 and learned most of what he knows by listening to recordings of famous singers. His professional career was begun 'by pure good luck' when he got the chance to sing opposite Maria Callas in Spontini...