Word: uomo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Giovanna glowers at the crowd. The Chorus joins in a spirited tutto, L'uomo che corteggiava (The man she sought...
Without Vice. Italy's banking community expressed shock last week at the arrest of Aloisi, who is widely known as un uomo senza vizi (a man without vice) and a financial wizard. Deputy chairman of one of Italy's largest banks, the elegant, British-tailored Aloisi runs several corporations, owns a racing stable and a famed Via Veneto watering place, the Caffe Doney...
...Boom. Colombo came to the job with a reputation of being an "uomo preparata" (competent man), a graceful but serious no-nonsense bachelor of 50. His first achievement was to settle, at least temporarily, the bickering over patronage among the four center-left coalition partners-Socialists, Social Democrats, Christian Democrats and Republicans. Next, he kept parliamentary peace by allowing a free vote on Italy's controversial divorce bill. Colombo throttled filibusters by his own right-wingers; in return, Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer shut off anti-Vatican outbursts from the far left...