Word: sicilianism
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...ability to upset my opponents by clever psychological tricks (my favorite was to say "that stinks!" every time they made a move) I began to drop behind the other prodigies on the block. While they were plumbing the mystical depths of Reti's opening, I still thought the Sicilian Defense exotic. And my parents were no help--never providing a proper home environment for chess study...
...California missions, and fully exploited her tactical victory. Firmly holding Joe's hand in their San Francisco home, she complained to the press about a domestic credibility gap. "He doesn't always tell me the truth," she said. A worn-looking Joe, the son of an immigrant Sicilian fisherman, suggested: "Perhaps I come from a background where we were a little overprotective of our wives." "Overly protected?" Angelina snapped. "I feel neglected...
Borrow and Buy. Such sports-struck businessmen, and other Clevelanders like them, did not get together by accident. They were mobilized by Nick James Mileti, 42, son of Sicilian immigrants, who has traded his attorney's narrow lapels for the velour suits and mink coat of a promoter. He makes a business of turning rich fans -and ordinary folk as well -into investors. Since he made sport a career six years ago, the former suburban prosecutor, Jaycee BOUTELLE president and housing consultant has created an athletic empire worth $40 million...
...Paris Opera in 1855, it had something to please every vagary of the self-indulgent French musical taste of the time-five acts, a lengthy ballet, historical fireworks, huge choruses, soulful solos. The story is set in 13th-century Palermo, where the French colonists are oppressing the Sicilian natives. Arrigo, one of the principal revolutionaries, discovers to his horror that he is the illegitimate son of the chief oppressor, Montforte. Not only does this news test his divided loyalties, but it ruins his romance with the fair Elena, who is sympathetic to the Sicilians. With loud cries of "Vendetta...
...between police, the kidnapers, and young Getty's mother, former Actress Gail Harris. Mrs. Harris was at first wary of cooperating with the police out of fear of jeopardizing her son's life. When the police secretly tapped her telephone, they heard a man with a Calabrian-Sicilian accent calling to negotiate the ransom for her son. The gang demanded $ 17 million but finally settled for $2,890,000. To deliver the money, Billionaire Getty, who lives in England, sent to Rome a tall, craggy-faced American, identified by Italian newspapers as Fletcher Chase, 54, of San Diego...