Word: nino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospects for such a success were by no means clear twelve years ago, when Armani had to be cajoled away from his steady $40,000-a-year job designing men's wear for Nino Cerruti. It took the considerable persuasive powers of Sergio Galeotti, then 25 and a draftsman in a leading Milan architectural firm, to lure Armani from the kind of early middle-aged complacency he was slipping into. Armani, the second of three children of a transport-company manager in Piacenza, 40 miles southeast of Milan, grew up during World War II and remembers waking up screaming...
...June, the acting director of the Nino Jesus Children's Hospital in Madrid had established the first firm lead on the cause of the illness. By painstakingly analyzing his patients' diets, Dr. Juan Manuel Tabuenca discovered that the one common factor was foods cooked in a product billed as pure oh've oil. It was then found that the product was not so pure, but rather an unsavory mixture of olive oil, liquefied pork fat and colsa, or rapeseed oil. The oil, originally imported from
...where the legendary Steve Herrell, a Boston cab driver and sometime high school teacher, popularized the whole mind-and-body-expanding idea of mix-ins when he founded the place back in 1973. History was made, served and spooned here. Herrell sold his shop to the brothers Joey and Nino Crugnale in 1977 because he wanted to go west; he got as far as Northampton, where he now operates Steve Herrell's Ice Cream. Joey Crugnale, who shyly describes his outrageously heavy and rich ice cream as "the best," keeps a player piano jingling away in the corner...