Word: italianizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...artist-architect Adam Kalkin. Since he first created a dwelling with one in 1999, he has developed Quik House, a three-bedroom kit house fabricated from recycled containers, and most recently the Push Button House, a single container that opens in 90 seconds at the touch of a button. Italian coffee company Illy uses some as mobile outdoor cafés in Chicago, California and South America...
...Italian politics, turning everything on its head is the preferred method for keeping everything standing in place. Just 21 months after Romano Prodi knocked Silvio Berlusconi out of the Prime Minister's office, Italy is once again heading toward elections. And who do polls say will be the next Prime Minister? Silvio Berlusconi, of course...
...Following yet another government crisis - and Senate President Franco Marini's failed, five-day attempt to establish a temporary ruling coalition to usher in much-needed electoral reform - the Italian Parliament is expected to be dissolved on Wednesday, and national elections scheduled in April. Though his allies have insisted for the past two years that it's time for new leadership on the Italian center-right, Berlusconi will again be its candidate, for the fifth time in 14 years (with two wins, two losses under his belt). Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, who once served as Prodi...
...like Prodi who have often led Italy, both Berlusconi and Veltroni are persuasive orators with a populist touch and a nose for how to use the mass media. Berlusconi will be able to make the case that the center-left blew their chance to lead, stumbling and splintering into Italian politics-as-usual. He will ask for yet another chance to remake Italy in his image of success. Veltroni will respond that it is the center-right that is offering the been-there, seen-that candidate; and that at nearly 20 years younger, he is the choice for "change...
...That was nothing compared to the task that faces Marini now: to find a working majority for a transitional government. On Wednesday Italian President Giorgio Napolitano asked Marini to attempt to form a government with a limited mandate to enact much needed electoral reform. To fulfil that charge and become interim prime minister, the 74-year-old centrist has had to beg opposition members to join him in a new, temporary working majority. They don't appear to be so disposed, and by Friday afternoon, all signs pointed to failure...