Word: lelio
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...lowly Neapolitan couturier named Lelio Galateri was suing Italy's voluptuous Cinemadonna Sophia (Too Bad She's Bad) Loren on the ground that he got small thanks for converting her into a lady and making her look arresting though fully clothed. Cried Galateri: "In 1953 Sophia was not yet refined and spoke an incomprehensible Neapolitan dialect. She didn't even know how to walk. She had to be educated, taught to walk and not to talk. I redressed her from head to toe and civilized her!" What was Galateri's reward for playing Pygmalion? Muttered...
...convention broke were Romita's anti-Communists (27%), Nenni's proCommunists (31%), and an aimless, sullen middle-of-the-road group which wanted to avoid the unavoidable decision (42%). The middle-of-the-roaders won, but not before the pro-Communist party secretary, bearded, slate-eyed Lelio Basso, had told them...
...they were arrested. Boarding parties of Marines then took possession of the ships. Aboard one, the Italian tanker Fede, they reported finding a TNT bomb rigged to explode when the engine was turned over. Another Italian tanker, the Atlas, was already sinking when they boarded her. Her skipper, Captain Lelio Fazzi, had not been lured ashore, had stayed to scuttle his ship. The Marines clambered back into their launches, shouted to Captain Fazzi to abandon ship. "I have done my duty," puffed Captain Fazzi, his feet planted in the rising water. The Marines kept shouting to the sailors to jump...
...they rarely performed his music to his liking, or did not trouble to perform it at all. Berlioz blared out his indignations as he did much of his music. When a French editor undertook to improve on one of Beethoven's symphonies. Berlioz introduced a monolog into his Lelio cursing out all such desecrators: "They are like the vulgar birds that swarm in our public gardens and perch arrogantly on the most beautiful statues; and when they have fouled the forehead of Jupiter, the arm of Hercules, or the bosom of Venus, strut about with as much pride...
...gradual clearing of the complications and misunderstandings resulting from the exuberant mendacity of Lelio occupies the remainder of the comedy, which, after the final discomfiture of the liar, ends with his none too convincing resolution to devote himself henceforward to the truth...