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...Tomaso and Anna Longo took out a loan with the Banca di Roma to buy a two-bedroom house in the fashionable Prati section near the heart of Rome. The interest was a painful 12.5%, but the Longos had little alternative, since that was about the average rate on a home mortgage in those days. Anna, a civil servant, says that life became a matter of pinching lire. "We couldn't ever go away anywhere," she recalls. "We didn't even go out to the cinema...
...Then a miracle happened. Italy's efforts to join the euro led to a steep drop in interest rates. By April 1998 the market average for new loans had fallen below 8.3%. Tomaso, a lawyer, noticed that this appeared to render his Banca di Roma loan illegal under a 1996 anti-usury act. The law prohibits creditors from charging more than one-and-a-half times current rates. Tomaso went to the bank and asked to renegotiate; he first was turned down, and then the bank offered a deal with a hefty refinancing fee. But the Longos kept pushing...
Professor Tomaso Poggio works with eyes. He does not treat them; he makes them--from scratch...
...lured away by the famed car designer Nuccio Bertone. In six years with Bertone, he created 20 cars, from economy-model Simcas and Mazdas to expensive Ferraris and Aston Martins. At 27, Giugiaro graduated to Ghia, where he designed renowned sports cars for Maserati and De Tomaso. At 30, he opened his own firm. Married, the father of two children, Giugiaro resides in a rambling ranch-style house outside Turin that he planned with an architect. The interior is decorated with Oriental art and Giugiaro's own paintings. The designer he admires most is Bruno Sacco, who styles...
...works performed in Chicago were typical of Henze's eclectic style. In Los Caprichos, a gentle, evocative fantasy for orchestra, he draws on a series of etchings by Goya for inspiration. For Il Vitalino Raddoppiato, Henze goes back to the Baroque Chaconne attributed to Tomaso Vitali, composing an extended (26 minutes), virtuosic set of variations for violin and orchestra that preserves the repeating harmonic structure of Vitali's music while steadily growing in complexity. Arien des Orpheus is an elegiac suite from his full-length ballet Orpheus, based on the Greek myth. And in Barcarola, a darkly impressive...