Word: sicilianism
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ANTONIO TWISTELLI is a fine name for a comic-book villain (or a Sicilian porn star), but if Spawn comic-book creator Todd McFarlane knew using the Twistelli sobriquet would cost him millions, he probably would have gone with something else. Last week a St. Louis jury ordered McFarlane to pay $24.5 million to one TONY TWIST, 32, a former NHL enforcer for the St. Louis Blues, who sued McFarlane for using his name without permission. McFarlane, a sports nut who paid $2.7 million for Mark McGwire's record-breaking 1998 home-run ball, waffled in his testimony about...
...other Europeans, I have to say a deeply felt thank you to that great generation of Americans who suffered and died during World War II. My mother told me many times about the liberation, when the young boys from the U.S. and Britain came to liberate Acireale (the Sicilian town where we live) by fighting back the Germans. The Italian people have never forgotten the sacrifices, injuries, deaths and all that we owe to those American boys and their families. FRANCO BARBAGALLO Acireale, Italy...
Anna Giordano was only 15 when she found her true calling. In 1981, near her Sicilian hometown of Messina, she watched helplessly as poachers unleashed their fire from cement bunkers on the hundreds of honey buzzards, hawks and other birds migrating over the narrow straits between Sicily and the Italian mainland. After seeing 17 birds shot out of the sky, she vowed that "this was the beginning of the end for the poachers...
Forget for a moment The Godfather--the 21 million-selling book and the movie that virtually created the Mafia as literary and cinematic subject. Forget The Fortunate Pilgrim, The Sicilian, The Last Don and other best sellers. Forget Superman, Earthquake and the rest of the blockbusters. Forget two Academy Awards. Forget that he wrote some of the best stuff ever about the American family and the Italian-American immigrant experience. Forget that all this was done by the son of illiterate immigrant parents...
...game matches against and IBM supercomputer named Deep Blue, losing the second time around for the first time in his professional career. Millions of people followed that match on the internet, including thousands of people like me who had no idea (and still have no idea) what a "Sicilian defense" is, but were nonetheless captivated by the man vs. machine theme and the dramatic juxtaposition of such breathtaking technology with such an ancient game...