Word: renato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Renato Grassi was not the kind of traveler who heeds the advice of the American Express Co. to carry no more than $50 in cash. A slim, 36-year-old Italian with a weakness for tall brunettes, fast Lancias, and all-night stands at the roulette tables, Grassi liked to have as much as $250,000 worth of francs in his little black briefcase when he took off for weekends at French casinos. The trouble was, Grassi invariably lost-and the cash belonged to the American Express...
Columbia dips into Donizetti's over flowing old trunk of 70-odd operas and comes up with a 3-LP recording of Linda di Chamounix (mono). Written late in the composer's life, the work has a good deal of facile melody, and Antonietta Stella, Renato Capecchi and Cesare Valletti give it a rousing performance. But the libretto, which has to do with a girl driven mad when wrongly accused of being a wanton, is enough to shake anybody but the staunchest Donizetti...
Billington and Renato Poggioli, Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, participated in a forum entitled "The Case of Doctor Zhivago." Billington analyzed the political implications of the novel while Poggioli spoke on its literary significance...
...Cross. These were often inserted in the names of the worshipers and those they wished to commemorate. Thus the name CRISPINA is written with a Greek X fused with the P, making the chi rho and indicating Crispina's devotion to Christ; beneath the T in the name RENATO, an E is drawn, signifying Peter's crucifixion...
Fashionable Roman Sculptor Renato Signorini said that he had accepted a gilt-edged commission from Monaco's Prince Rainier: an 18-carat solid-gold bust of Princess Grace. Buckling down to three months of "very patient work," Signorini grandly measured the value of his work-to-be: "Priceless...