Word: modena
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...known as the Friday Night Poker Society that frequently met in a game room dubbed Lido's Lounge. lacocca does still find time to indulge a predilection for preparing his own Italian sauces. During a father-and-daughter European trip, he even induced an Italian hotel-owning friend in Modena to let him spend several hours observing the kitchen chef. Says he: "I cook on weekends mostly. Mary says it's O.K. as long as I have three guys follow along behind me to clean...
...traveling publicity circus of Modena's other great singer born in 1935, Pavarotti. "I am very happy for Luciano, he is like a brother to me. But it is not my character. I like my privacy. I enjoy singing, I enjoy creating something with my voice. But when it is finished, it is finished." The great American hype machine is wasted on Mirella Freni...
...ceremony, charged with the kind of sensuality only a true aficionado would appreciate, occurs almost daily. A customer takes delivery of his brand-new Quattroporte (four-door) sedan at the Maserati factory in Modena, Italy. Watched by some of the 600 workers who hand-crafted every centimeter of its swashbuckling lines and muscular engine, he opens the door. The rich aroma of glove leather escapes into the air as he slides into the welcoming embrace of a bucket seat. The moment for which he has spent upwards of $40,000 and waited more than a year has arrived. He switches...
...father accompanied the local chorus to an international music festival in Llangollen, Wales, where?to their delirious amazement ?they won first prize. Encouraged by Adua, whom he had met and become engaged to during teacher training, Luciano decided to give singing a try. (Another Modena youngster, a childhood friend of Pavarotti's, had already made the same decision: Soprano Mirella Freni...
Occasionally Pavarotti will gather a few guests into his gray Mercedes for the two-hour drive to Modena. There, in the cobbled square in front of the city's handsome Romanesque cathedral, he is greeted familiarly as "Luciano" by seemingly hundreds of old friends and schoolmates, and as "Signor Tenore" by everyone else. His father, 65, still sings in the church choir and local chorus-and now enjoys the status of a recording artist, thanks to a few small roles on Pavarotti's albums. Both parents will join the Pavarotti ménage soon. Luciano plans to settle...