Word: sardinia
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...writers from around the world. As such, Garibaldi remains a model that transcends time and ideology. As it happens, Massoud cut a physical figure similar to the Italian, graceful and bearded, and they shared a nickname: Garibaldi was known as the Lion of Caprera, for the island off Sardinia where he lived his later years. Though different in many other ways, each lion understood the link between his cult and his cause...
...Good News for Galicia And Wales, Sardinia and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. For regions on the periphery of their nations, with proud cultures and traditions of their own, the E.U. has been a godsend. The Committee of the Regions provides a political voice while the E.U.'s regional policy has channeled funds for projects aimed to tackle economic and social disparities within member countries. The consequence? Not a Europe homogeneously harmonized, but one that is more diverse than ever before...
...pettiness, scheming and serial infidelities. But in contrast to the early works, which parodied the unabashed boorishness of young French tourists in the sex-addled 1970s at an Ivory Coast Club Med resort and, in the second film, on the ski slopes, the new movie finds our antiheroes visiting Sardinia in overripe middle age. Experience has taught them little more than how to hone their barbs. Their fashion choices are worse than ever, and the embonpoint of token bimbo Gigi (Marie-Anne Chazel) has been enlarged to gargantuan proportions. Past entanglements collide with new realities to create fresh comic crises...
...intelligence hoaxes of the war; in London. The ploy, recounted in Montagu's 1953 book (later a movie), involved a body that washed up on the coast of Spain outfitted in a Royal Marines uniform and with papers indicating that the next Allied thrust would come in Greece and Sardinia, not Sicily. The German high command fell for the ruse, and the beaches of Sicily were only lightly defended when the Allies landed in July...
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