Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Ovett, Britain's Allan Wells won the 100-meter dash and Daley Thompson took the decathlon. With 36 nations heeding President Carter's call for a boycott over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, there was little else for the West to cheer about. Pietro Mennea, a flamboyant Italian, finished first in the 200-meter run, and Ethiopian Miruts Yifter, listed as 35 but rumored to be in his 40s, captured...
Mennea, 28, became the first Italian runner to win a gold medal in track and field since 1960 when he finished first in the 200-meter dash. Disgusted by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he agonized for months over whether to go to Moscow-and continued to agonize once he arrived. Said'he: "The pressure of being the favorite with no Americans here, and the bitterness of the boycott ... cracked my nerves." On the track he had to worry about Wells, 28, a Scotsman. "I knew from the semifinals of the 100 that he was two meters faster...
...intricate arrangements, became a new basis for melody and harmony. Von Heute, composed in 1929, qualifies as the first twelve-tone opera. It shows off the range of effects that are possible within such a seemingly rigid system: singable lines, comic punctuation in the orchestra, a brief pastiche of Italian lyricism, even a gloriously jangling doorbell...
...reasons. He was a lighting technician. He would not only be able to watch the track and field events but also check out his fellow technicians' artistry at the Bolshoi Theater. "If I had to choose between a visit backstage at the Bolshoi and watching Pietro Mennea, the Italian sprinter, run the 100 meters, I'd go crazy," he said. "I guess I'd watch Pietro. I'd give up any other track event for the Bolshoi, but not the 100 meters." The other priority on his list was to take a look at Lenin...
...casual scanning of events in the modern Games shows that for every example of exchanged T shirts and kisses among competing nations there are a dozen instances of international cheating, needling and foul play, all laced with as much nationalism as competitive nastiness. In 1908, British officials dragged the Italian marathoner Dorando Pietri over the finish line in an attempt to withhold victory from the American Johnny Hayes. The water polo match between the Soviet Union and Hungary in 1956 ended with a bloody-faced Hungarian in the pool. Boycotts have been threatened before, and two actually occurred: the African...