Word: francesco
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...transplant, saving seven lives and securing their place in the affections of this organ donor-poor country. But the ultimate compensation -- justice -- eludes them still. A court has acquitted the two men charged in the shooting death, agreeing with the defense's argument that a recorded conversation allegedly identifying Francesco Mesiano and Michele Iannello as the murderers was too chock full of regional dialect to serve as intelligible evidence. Police charged that the pair had mistaken the Greens' rental car for a robbery target, forced the car off the road and then fired into the vehicle, hitting young Nicholas...
Hemingway burst onto the modeling scene in the mid-'70s as a fresh-faced, 6-ft. 19-year-old from Ketchum, Idaho. In 1975 she appeared on the cover of TIME to illustrate a story on new beauties. Fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo says she was such a natural beauty that he would have made her a star even without her famous surname. "You could put her out in the sunlight in the middle of the day and she looked like an angel," he recalls. But others credited her rapid ascent to the Hemingway mystique. "As celebrity became aristocracy, it became...
Romans split between the Democratic Party of the Left, which backed Francesco Rutelli, 39, a Green candidate who ran on an environmentalist platform promising to bring pedestrian zones and pollution controls to the decaying capital, and the baby-faced leader of the neofascist Italian Social Movement, Gianfranco Fini, 41. He contended his party best responds to public demands for law and order, immigration controls and restoration of the death penalty. The top two vote getters in Naples, the city that has come to symbolize southern Italy's chronic poverty and lawlessness, were Antonio Bassolino, a 46-year-old veteran communist...
...tangenti, or kickbacks, for the contract to service a public nursing home. He led prosecutors to the facility's administrator, Mario Chiesa, a Socialist Party activist and Craxi associate. The police moved in, Chiesa squealed and the political house of cards began to collapse. Admits Clean Hands chief prosecutor Francesco Saverio Borrelli: "We had no idea when we started how deep this would...
...Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666) was known from childhood and, since his death, to art history as Guercino -- "the Squinter." Thus he joins Masaccio ("Tom the Lump") and Sodoma among the notable Italian painters who survive in pejorative nicknames. One flinches to think what this practice might have done to the self-esteem of artists in the late 20th century had it gone...