Word: rivieras
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...they attacked the strongroom safes. Among the spoils they found were the entire weekend receipts from Nice's biggest department stores and the bank's ready cash for the following week. In the safe deposit boxes they discovered the items that might be expected on the French Riviera: gold, silver, jewelry, bonds, rare stamps and paintings. At least one box contained a portfolio of hardest-core pornographic photos, which the looters, in evident appreciation, decoratively pasted on the vault walls...
...keep goin'." When the deed was done-in Monaco, where Ringo now lives-the 36-year-old ex-Beatle percussionist was as hairless as a drum. The star was nervous at first, but he quickly found his baldness an advantage. "It's cooler, like," he explained. "This Riviera sun was goin' to me brain...
...finally got a job mowing lawns. He is the kind of man who likes to take an intellectual interest in his work. He enrolled in a course in agronomy at Broward Community College, even earned a degree. Now 59, callused and deeply tanned, he is assistant superintendent at the Riviera Golf Club in Coral Gables. He rides a tractor and sprays insecticides...
...talk to Harvard students about her own country. She attended a dinner for Italian-American students once, but she has not returned to the group because, she says, "they've turned Italy into a myth, all sunny and pretty. But I know Italy has problems, and that the Riviera is only a strip along the coast--I know the dirty smelly cities in the north, just as dirty as any American city. The Italy they've heard of from their parents just doesn't exist...
...Peter Frisch) served him as an effective foil. Lorenzo (Danny Snow) managed to project a kind of cortesia Castiglione would have recognized. The only serious miscasting was the Duke of Venice himself (David Garcia) who lacked the eloquence to make his magnanimity seem better than a sham. Graziano (Dan Riviera) left his role in a shambles, just a little too rasping and sinister to fit in with the overarching Shakespearean theme...