Word: silvano
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...SILVANO CASSANO, chief executive of Benetton Group, on reports of sluggish Christmas sales from retailers around Europe
...Silvano, Lawson sips Gavi di Gavi while chomping on duck, branzino and brains. "I'm like a Chinese Jew," she says. "I love brains and sweetbreads and all that stuff." At the next table, fellow Brit Tim Curry spots Lawson and offers a seated bow. "I have them all!" he screams, presumably about her books. But it's far too loud to hear anything. Lawson suggests we get dessert...
Just weeks after Cavagnoud's death, Silvano Beltrametti lost control at 120 km/h and sliced through the orange Kevlar netting that bordered the run in an especially violent crash during the season's opening World Cup downhill race at Val d'Isère. His spine was broken between the sixth and seventh vertebrae, leaving the 22-year-old Swiss skier paralyzed from the waist down. Beltrametti recently told a press conference: "I lived for skiing, 24 hours a day, but that time is behind me now. In a second all my dreams, goals and visions came to nothing...
...gruesome accidents on the World Cup circuit this season - the death of French super-giant slalom champion R?gine Cavagnoud after a practice-run collision and a crash that left 22-year-old Swiss racer Silvano Beltrametti a paraplegic - have highlighted the dangers of ski racing and cast a somber pall over what these athletes refer to as the "white circus...
...quick, bold strokes. Among the most remarkable are Cherry Jones, whose tough-talking moll displays a deep belief in the power and necessity of the theater, and Ruben Blades, who melts into his small role as Diego Rivera in a perfect impersonation. John Turturro shines brightly as Aldo Silvano, a dedicated member of the "Cradle" cast who parts ways with his family of Italian nationalists. John Cusack is effective as the affably cocky Rockefeller, and Bill Murray and Joan Cusack hit both comic highs and notes of genuine sadness. Less successful are Vanessa Redgrave, who's garishly over...