Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Both sides, however, gave their word to spare Tripoli. Arafat apparently promised not to shell rebel positions from within the city, thus risking return fire, while Abu Mousa pledged not to invade. Nonetheless, rumors floated through the city all week that Arafat was about to flee. On Thursday, Italian Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini announced that the missile launcher Orsa and the destroyer Intrepido stood ready off the Lebanese coast to evacuate Arafat...
...their car, Budapest's Fine Arts Museum seems to have done every thing possible to ensure the success of the heist. With apparent ease, robbers penetrated the museum's flimsy security last week and plundered its fine collection of old masters. Unhindered, they cut or lifted seven Italian paintings from their frames, then spirited them out of the building. Declared shaken Museum Director Klara Garas: "It is a catastrophe...
Similarly, French President null Mitterrand had quickly and dryly criticized the U.S. action, but in private French officials were taking a more detached view. Said one: "If the Americans withdraw quickly and set up some truly democratic institutions, Grenada could fade mercifully into the political background within a month." Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi made it clear that the invasion of Grenada would not affect Italy's commitment to the NATO decision...
...just have had enough of this label that sticks to me," Marcello Mastroiami, 59, told a French newspaper unhappily. But it is hard to look so damnably dashing and avoid being considered a lady-killer. In truth, the Italian actor has lately been playing against type, most notably as an aged and mellowed Casanova in La Nuit de Varennes. And in The General of the Dead Army, a burlesque, Grand Guignol black comedy, which opened recently in Paris, Mastroianni plays the flamboyant General Ariosto, who does not so much get the woman as argue with her over possession...
...award is intended to reward research carried out in fields not covered by the Nobel Prizes. The other prize winners are University of Chicago sociologist Edward Shils and an Italian scholar in Oriental Studies, Francesio Gabreli. An awards ceremony is scheduled for February in Switzerland...