Word: sicilian
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...editors and buyers took note, and by March 1986 they were staging their first solo show, ?Real Women.? Dolce's sister Dorotea and his brother Alfonso worked the door. Joan Burstein of the London boutique Brown's came and snapped up the collection of romantic, Sicilian-inspired dresses and strictly tailored pantsuits that were very much in contrast to both Armani and Versace?then the opposing poles of fash ion in Milan?and to the dark, asexual stuff the Japanese were showing in Paris...
...There were two extremes,? Burstein remembers. ? There was tailoring and corsets and the sexy bits and then these marvelous full-skirted dresses, which I thought were so Neapolitan. We didn't know then that Domenico was Sicilian...
...from the former Yugoslavia. Born in Lugano, Switzerland, the 52-year-old Del Ponte rose to the position of Swiss attorney general, investigating connections between Italian drug dealers and Swiss money launderers, former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and the traditional secrecy of Swiss financial institutions. Her investigation of the Sicilian mafia led to a failed attempt on her life when in 1988, when a half-ton of explosive was discovered in the foundation of her home in Palermo, Italy. In 1999, Del Ponte was named chief prosecutor of the International War Crimes Tribunal. Her dual responsibilities in this role have...
...Italy's political autonomy is at stake." The high-profile murder has raised fears in Rome that the growing brazenness of 'Ndrangheta could escalate into a bloody war against national authority, like the one that erupted in the 1980s when the Cosa Nostra sought to tighten its hold on Sicilian society and politics. Life is already bleak on this southern tip of Italy's boot-shaped peninsula. The honest people of Calabria struggle just to get by in one of Europe's most economically depressed corners, where nearly 25% of families live below the poverty line. Meanwhile, the region...
...registrar refuses Lewis’s plan, students such as Samuel W. Teller ’08 are already inspired to explore the endless realm of technological possibilities taught in the class. “I don’t care whether Prof. Lewis gives us Google or a Sicilian battle hammer for the final, because by the end of Bits I’m going to know how to build my own final-taking robot from scratch,” Teller wrote in an e-mail. “I’m going to name...