Word: rolandi
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...five men, including two building engineers, come to scout the project for the Italian town of Selvetta, where things are even darker - nearly four sunless months each winter. Like Viganella residents, they complain more of high heating bills than of depression supposedly linked to lack of sun. Franco Rolandi, who runs the only café nearby, says the scarce heat from the mirror isn't the point. "This town is heading for extinction. We need to do something," he says. "Remember when they built the Eiffel Tower? People said, 'What's the point?' Now look at Paris...
...focus has been shifted from young Pip to the vindictive harridan who teaches him his first lesson in cruelty and deceit. In Miss Havisham's Fire we see her on her calamitous wedding day, deserted by her bridegroom. (The young Miss Havisham is sung by Gianna Rolandi, who has a generous mad scene of her own.) There is a brushstroke plot involving an inquest into Miss Havisham's death, but the opera is really a star vehicle for a coloratura. Argento had Beverly Sills in mind when he began work two years ago. She agreed...
...Your Excellency, I am 73 years old!" cried Director Vittorio Rolandi-Ricci, one-time Italian Ambassador to the U. S. and now a senator, dealing with Il Duce. "Surely, on account of my age-entirely on account of my age-I should resign...
...University Italian Club, which will give its play, "The Savants of Villatriste", Friday at 2.15 o'clock in the Copley Theatre, has announed that it will receive the Italian Ambassador to the United States, Senator Rolandi Ricci, at a luncheon at 12 o'clock in the Union on Saturday of this week. Ambassador Ricci has never visited the University and has been in this country only four months. Saturday evening he will be the guest of the Italian Colony of Boston...
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