Word: messina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acts dominated the night, showcasing the developing potential of local performers. Singer-guitarist Martin Sexton, deemed Outstanding Contemporary Folk Act, silenced the audience with his startlingly emotional ballad spiked with intense, accelerated outbursts. Winning Act of the Year, Outstanding Female Vocalist and Outstanding Country Act, country singer Jo Dee Messina, who was born and raised in Boston but cultivated her career down south, was thankful to be invited back home to display her powerfully clear and mellifluous voice. The impressive Kornlike hardcore band Godsmack, who received the Debut Album of the Year honor, blasted through synthetic fog with their relentlessly...
...recent issues of Vogue. A small city with a rich Greco-Roman heritage, it has become increasingly downtrodden during the past decades. Growing up there in the 1950s and '60s, Versace witnessed the miserable postwar poverty that filled the streets, but could find elegance in the turquoise Strait of Messina that lay just beyond them. His was a city where Calabrian Mafiosi thrived in all their cheap glamour and children once passed the hours in ancient ruins. Versace's family home neighbored the remains of a Greek temple...
Rounding out the awards, senior defensive back Joe Messina was honored with the Lamar award for dedication while senior center Rob Jungerhans took away the LaCroix Trophy for enthusiasm, sportsmanship and loyalty and captain Sean Riley was recognized as the outstanding interior lineman with the Wolf Award...
Director Kaile Shilling locates the play on a riverboat in Dixie. Despite this revision, she chooses to preserve the original text, with all its context, save one or two lines adapted to read "The South" instead of "Messina." This leads to baffling conundrums: where do you find the balconies and gardens on a riverboat? Why are war-weary veterans holidaying on the water with the governor of Messina? What kind of steamer comes complete with a crypt? This hare-brained Steamboat Willie hybrid smacks of direction for direction's sake...
...Greek word meaning "to initiate to mysteries" -- a town in Italy's lower boot that had been partly destroyed by the Romans in 214 B.C. because its inhabitants were too friendly to Hannibal's Carthaginians. His family, however, was rooted in Maida, 65 miles northeast of the Strait of Messina, which separates Sicily from the rest of Italy. This is a craggy, nearly treeless countryside that has seen more than its share of history, good and bad. Maida was plundered frequently in pre-Christian times. The rebel slave Spartacus led his ragtag army through the area during his ill-fated...