Word: luxuria
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...biggest shock was Luxuria's victory last week. In a run-off against Rodriguez, the politician won the support of 56% of viewers. In a country where the Catholic Church still weighs heavily in public life, and which boasts some of Europe's most restrictive policies against gay unions and assisted fertility, Luxuria hailed her victory as a sign that "Italians are far ahead of their politicians...
What was not anticipated was the 43-year-old dominating the show in more traditional sorts of way: cracking jokes, endearing herself to the public, and occasionally stabbing rival contestants in the back. Most sensationally, Luxuria alleged a tryst between an Argentinian model and Italian showboy. Both repeatedly denied any dirty deeds...
...chief of the Refounded Communist party, which lost all its parliamentary seats in the April poll that saw Berlusconi sweep to power, quickly offered Luxuria a slot to run for the European Parliament. "Vladimir has an elevated degree of solidarity and brotherhood and at the same time is very sensitive and aware of others and their dynamics," said the ever-somber Communist leader Paolo Ferrero. "She is a very positive anthropological model, in my view." A columnist in the Communist party newspaper likened Luxuria's victory to Barack Obama...
...television from a gray source of information and family programming into a feast of commercial, and often trashy, entertainment. Isola dei Famosi is broadcast on the state RAI network and follows the success of the local version of Big Brother shown on Berlusconi's Mediaset network. In a sense, Luxuria's victory brings the process full circle. Berlusconi's leftist opponents, often so critical of the lowbrow entertainment that the Prime Minister has championed, now have a lowbrow champion of their...
...explore the ironies further, I turned to Andrea Tesseri, an Italian astrophysicist and longtime fan of Isola dei Famosi. Tesseri doesn't buy the hype. "So we aren't so intolerant. We like to get along. But comparing [Luxuria's victory] to Obama is depressing," Tesseri told me. "Being in the [political?] minority, all we are left with is this...