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...tart tell-all due in October from Herbert Breslin, LUCIANO PAVAROTTI'S former publicist. In this tale of "a beautiful, simple, lovely guy who turned into a very determined, aggressive and somewhat unhappy superstar," Breslin claims Pavarotti lip-synchs when he's tired, often forgets lyrics and calls pals "stupido." The round-bellied tenor requires a limo to travel just a block, says Breslin, and "has to have gained and lost more than 5,000 pounds" during their 36year partnership. In a 2003 interview in the book, Pavarotti says, "Herbert was my wife in the opera." The singer may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera, Extra Soap | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...added pepper and spice, Wolfe includes 52 "hard words," all-purpose insults that can be dropped in as needed. Example: "Hairy creep," which is Oiler Leisetreter in German, Troglodyte in French, Stupido scimmione in Italian and Espantapájaros in Spanish. "The insult must flash like lightning," admonishes Wolfe. "It must not be delivered tardily or with the hesitancy which is so often engendered if one is wondering whether or not the last syllable is to be inflected. Again, a slightly mangled pronunciation sometimes gives the insult a macabre quality; it may add to its stunning effect on the insultee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Dribbling, Senile Fool! | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...Basilio only two days after arriving in the U.S., and after only one rehearsal. But he has been working up to it since he was 13. It was then that he heard Pagliacci in Milan. Before long, he was reading librettos behind his schoolbooks. His schoolwork suffered ("I was stupido"), but Tajo didn't care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Comic | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...than to politics. When he went to Brussels to claim his bride, an exiled anti-Fascist took a badly aimed shot at him. Ever after he raised his hand in the Fascist salute and, like his father, gave the Duce no trouble. Lately, ordinary Italians have dubbed him lo stupido nazionale and il buffone (clown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Willing Umberto | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...Small One." To Italian democrats, King Vittorio Emanuele is still a rankling symbol of the Mussolini regime. Once il piccolo (the small one) was a sentimental nickname for the king. Now it is a bitter epithet. His son, Umberto, has won the title lo stupido nazionale. Even such democratic political leaders as Benedetto Croce and Count Carlo Sforza were willing to join a new Government if the King were kicked out and a regency established for the "little prince." the seven-year-old Prince of Naples. But the King was kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: What's the Matter? | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

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