Word: lira
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...Italy at the rate of more than $200 million a month. In any other nation, such a capital flight might lead to alarm or panic. In Italy it is recognized as only another ingenious ploy to cheat the tax collector. No one really worries, because the fleeing lira usually returns to Italy wearing a disguise...
Love and Larceny. A naughty, nutty comedy from Italy about a con man who discovers that a liar and his lira are seldom parted...
Love and Larceny. A naughty, nutty comedy from Italy about a con man who discovers that a liar and his lira are seldom parted...
Spanish Song of the Renaissance (Victoria de los Angeles; Angel). Accompanied on such old instruments as the vihuela de mono and the lira da braccio by the Ars Musicae of Barcelona, Soprano De Los Angeles exhumes some of the neglected treasures of Spanish song with happy results. The songs for the most part deal with unrequited love ("So sharp is my desire/ Sweet lady, and my pain/ I feel my life expire/ Yet dare not to complain"), and they are beautifully sung-with opulence of tone and an engaging air of gentle melancholy...
...Mussolini's prewar heyday, when 20 lire equaled one U.S. dollar, a small-time lo'ser unwilling or unable to pay his fine could work it off in jail at about $2.50 a day. Postwar laws boosted fines in proportion to the lira's value of 620 to the dollar, but set the price of a day's work in the pokey at a measly 64?. The latest revision of the jail scale retroactively boosts the value of a day at hard labor to $8. Wardens all over Italy spent most of a week working over...