Word: italianity
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...remember these paintings as they looked new but [students] don’t.” Instead of thinking of paintings that are part of the present era as infallible, aging works of modern art should be considered in the same light as the fresco cycles of the aged Italian Renaissance that inspired Rothko to carry out his large commissions...
...It’s a bit of a conundrum for friends,” Dean Hunt, Schoenhof’s Foreign Books employee and long-time language maestro, admits with a chuckle. Because, despite the fact that Hunt knows French, German, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Ukranian, Finnish and a smattering of Slavic languages, he hasn’t ventured off this continent in 18 years. “I hate flying,” he says, at home with the store’s obscure volumes and multilingual clientele. Hunt leans back decisively...
Hunt finds alternate ways to practice language. “Spanish is an everyday language for me,” he says. A network of Italian e-mail penpals has helped his Italian improve “dramatically.” His eyes glisten as he describes his Canadian experiences: “If I go to Quebec, French is ever so much a part of me, ever so much more a part of me,” he says fervently. “It’s—it’s in my ears, on the street...
...story begins in 1974, when doctors discovered that a man named Valerio Dagnoli, from the northern Italian town of Limone sul Garda, had vanishingly low levels of HDL, the so-called good cholesterol, which keeps arteries from accumulating brittle plaque that can break off and choke blood flow. Surprisingly, though, Dagnoli had no heart disease. Neither did the 40 or so other townspeople researchers turned up who had minimal...
...find a wide selection of tasty treats and gourmet ingredients here, from aged balsamic vinegars to caviar and foie gras. The mushroom section features a detailed list of a dozen fresh varieties--including these Cinnamon Caps, left, part of an exotics gift basket. The Taste of Modena, an Italian-countryside set, comes with dried porcinis and white truffle...