Word: lipari
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...Italy, perhaps, demonstrates the point. Nobody sensible imagines that Silvio Berlusconi, its new Prime Minister, is likely to exile his opponents to the Lipari Islands, as Benito Mussolini was wont to do. Nor does one necessarily have to agree with the Economist's famous pre-election pronunciamento that the cloud of criminal allegations surrounding Berlusconi made him "not fit to lead the government of any country." All you need to do is look at the record. The sheer scale of Berlusconi's financial and business dealings - when the state-owned networks and his own Mediaset empire are taken together...
...week's end the fire still smoldered upon what Passaic Mayor Joseph Lipari mournfully spoke of as "40 acres of vacant land." Gone were 23 homes, along with 17 buildings that had housed about 60 manufacturers (of plastics, handkerchiefs, chemicals, printed materials) and provided about 2,700 jobs. Damages: approximately $400 million. At least 88 families were left homeless. In one destroyed warehouse were the elaborate costumes for 75 productions of the New York City Opera. Lost also was some of the momentum that Passaic had made in a heroic effort to come back from the bankruptcy it experienced...
While investigators were trying to determine what industrial chemicals had fed the blaze, Mayor Lipari announced that the cause of the catastrophe had been traced to two twelve-year-old neighborhood boys, who had slipped through a fence and ignited a barrel apparently filled with volatile naphthalene. Said the mayor: "They stated they were playing with matches...
...baked terrain, rocky mountainsides, bleak and barren vistas. Blending a documentary style with the blood & thunder, he has turned out some notable scenes: a raw, vivid tuna-fishing sequence, a scene of island women toiling in the cruel pumice mines, a colorful festival procession on nearby Lipari...
...this perhaps were true, it would be true only until 1931, when I revolted against Fascism . . . From 1931 until the fall of Mussolini in 1943, I was arrested eleven times. In 1933, I was placed in prison and then sentenced to five years on the island concentration camp of Lipari. Freed in 1938, I still remained under police control and was put in prison as a preventive measure every time a Nazi chief visited Rome. In 1939, being sent to Ethiopia by the Corriere delta Sera to write some articles about the life of the natives, I was accompanied...