Word: sicilian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...police arrested the country's top Mafioso, Giovanni Brusca, leading many Americans to wonder, Do Italian mobsters have colorful nicknames the way well-known U.S. mobsters do, like Vincent ("The Chin") Gigante and Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano? In fact, Brusca is known as "The Pig." Other examples of Sicilian nomenclature...
...come from? Who will replace Domingo? These two supersingers have raised tenor worship to extraordinary levels, and even they admit that they can't go on forever. There are many claimants for the rich prize of tenor dominance, but the one taken most seriously is a young French-born Sicilian named Roberto Alagna. He is 32, handsome, slender and blessed with a sweet, lyric--but not gigantic--voice. Plus he can act. The world is at his feet...
...just come out of Lamont, you haven't eaten in six hours, you've been studying all night, you're starving and, on top of everything else, it's freezing. Where do you go? Your choices are as varied as Tommy's sesame crust pizza, Pinocchio's Sicilian pizza or Store 24's hours-old, microwavable mysteries...
Last spring, though, Autry returned home to Tempe, Arizona, with every intention of transferring to Arizona State. "Winter hit me right in the mouth," says Autry, who recently projected himself as a Sicilian statue for a theater class. "I couldn't imagine ever coming back for another year." But Barnett and Autry's father pressured him to return, and by the time football started, "things just turned around like that...
...focuses on two implacably determined prosecutors, who with the help of informers managed to breach the wall of secrecy and the infamous culture of omerte (silence) that surrounded the Mafia. Childhood friends from Palermo, aloof, workaholic Giovanni Falcone and the gregarious Paolo Borsellino were, in the author's phrase, Sicilian patriots. Together they painstakingly amassed the evidence that led to the first so-called maxi-trial, of 475 Mafia conspirators, which began in Palermo on Feb. 16, 1986, and ended 22 months later with the conviction of 344 defendants. Both prosecutors eventually paid for their integrity and grit...