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...days later, the villains wrap up their captive in a plastic bag and drive to a more remote hideout. After languishing for days in her new quarters, Giovanna falls in love with Daniel. He too is smitten. Offstage he croons the aria Posa il tuo capo sulla mia spalla (Rest your head upon my shoulder...
...example, have already given his string section a correspondingly new tone. Beyond that, the concertmaster helps decide promotions, auditions, prospective new players, and acts as a father confessor as well as a liaison between the men and the maestro. Barbirolli says that the Italian appellation for concertmaster, violino di spalla, is more apropos: "His is the shoulder that the conductor leans...
...smokes being toted over the border on everything from helicopters and freight cars to trained St. Bernards. One particularly imaginative operator pumped his contraband across a wide Alpine lake in a crude, homemade submarine. The most reliable technique for safe smuggling is still the local spallone (from the Italian spalla, or shoulder). He is a sure-footed mountain man who trudges through the rocky gorge and Alpine forest of the border country with his fags in a shoulder knapsack, then sells them to a distributor who supplies the big cities...
Tooth & Nail. In Rapid City, S. Dak., John Spalla, who said he had just wanted to save on dentist bills, was charged with assault & battery after he tied his wife's hands behind her, pried open her mouth with a screwdriver, and tried to pull her teeth with a pair of pliers...
Married. Ermino Spalla, onetime heavyweight boxing champion of Europe, to Senorita Esmeralda Ascoli; at Rome, amid a crowd of enthusiasts...