Word: turin
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...fated shows shared one disabling presumption: musicals must be "about" something beyond melody and romance. Rags tried to survey the immigrant experience, Honky Tonk Nights blended music hall with racial conflict, Raggedy Ann was a dying girl's Freudian nightmare, and Into the Light asked whether the Shroud of Turin is Jesus Christ's burial cloth. All suffocated under the weight of their ambition...
...Italian Jew whose surname suggests ties to those members of the Levite tribe who were entrusted with guarding the sacred tabernacle. Not ritual priests but deacons, Levites were workers with practical tasks to perform. Appropriately, Levi came to writing through chemistry. For 30 years he worked for a Turin paint manufacturer. Before that he was the unwilling employee of the Nazis, who recruited him at Auschwitz for his technical skills. While millions died for what they were, Levi lived because of what he could do. His books (Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, Moments of Reprieve) are other ways of doing...
...body styles, to design the car and build its outer shell. The car's planners searched all over the world for the components, settling on an electronics system from Japan and aluminum hood and deck lid from Switzerland, among other parts. Pininfarina assembles the bodies in a factory near Turin, not far from the Italian Alps, then ships them to Detroit aboard 747 jumbo-jet freighters for outfitting with a high-performance GM engine and transmission...
...wanted to discover the place I'm going to live in for the next four years," said Marco K. Malisani of Turin, Italy. Malisani got an early introduction to one of the area's most colorful political figures, 70-year old City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, at the Dante Aligheri Italian cultural center in East Cambridge...
...Italian press, never renowned for its restraint, tackled the story with gusto. Turin's La Stampa carried a headline about "poison salad on the table." Public fears grew when one newspaper erroneously reported that infant mortality was widespread in the tomato-growing area. Although the Italian government gave the crop a clean bill of health, public uncertainty lingers. Francesco De Lorenzo, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Health, declared that the state had tested the samples with procedures identical to those of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and had found no traces of the pesticide above .05 parts...