Word: gapes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...frescoes illustrating the great love story. A long-faced waiter, who obligingly changed his name from Mario to Romeo, served sentimental vacationists with specially prepared Scaloppe alla Giulietta e Romeo in the dining room. When supper was done, the tourists were led in awe to an upstairs bedroom to gape at Capulet relics that included, said the guides, the very bed in which Juliet had slept. Neither Vicenza nor the tourists cared in the slightest that Verona's tourist bureau stoutly denied the authenticity of both the castle...
...time he had returned with it, 'Alina, her paralysis gone, was able to sit up and drink. She was rushed off to the hospital at nearby Gonaïves, then moved 'to another at Port-au-Prince. There, some 600 curious Haitians visited the ward to gape at la revenante (the returned one). Many nodded knowingly and whispered tales of the walking dead. Said Alina: "When I died, I found myself in a place where a lot of people were talking and taking their pleasure, and everything was nice and clean. I wanted to go in, but they...