Word: spinazzola
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...plans to switch, since it sees the adoption of Pinyin as an acceptance of Communist claims. Others have more personal reasons. "If they want to call Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing 'Deng Xiaoping,' that's their business," grumped Boston Globe Columnist Anthony Spinazzola. "I don't have to order him in a restaurant." Which is something...
...most justly famed, encompasses barely 4½ acres.) Some of their owners, and professional oenologists, point out that the soil and microclimate in, say, parts of Massachusetts and Michigan are in many ways closer to the great winegrowing regions of Europe than are overheated California's. Writes Anthony Spinazzola, a wine columnist for the Boston Globe: "The greatest wine has always been made where the vine is at its extreme climatically, when the grape is right on the edge of its endurance...
Europe. The recent excavations at Pompeii, under Prof. Vittorio Spinazzola, have made greater progress than all previous ones. To date, 530 meters of street have been uncovered by modern methods, which preserve the architecture intact. Old-fashioned excavation was carelessly done by workmen, digging into buildings from below and bringing valuable material down in ruins. Today ashes and rubbish are removed from above, walls and roofs are strengthened and supported, and all details are preserved, including the brilliant original colors of the frescoes...
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