Word: lumbroso
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...fabulous political theater, of course: Allen naked in the public square and squirming, by turns awkward, craven and hilarious in his four-day hegira from white-bread Presbyterianism to the admission that his mother was a Sephardic Jew, from the famed Lumbroso family. By week's end, Allen-the least likely Semite in Christendom-was sitting there stunned as cnn's Wolf Blitzer rattled off the list of brilliant Lumbroso ancestors: doctors, historians, the chief rabbi of Tunis! The Senator argued that his mother had been traumatized by the Nazis; her father had been pulled from his home...
...arts workers." Unions promise renewed national strikes in September. For now, protests continue to disrupt, shut down and perhaps even bankrupt festivals. "This is a terrible waste not just for visitors, but for the troupes who came from around the world and can't perform," laments retired doctor Alexandre Lumbroso, who arrived in Avignon for his 15th straight year to learn the program had been scrapped. "Protesters say they're protecting the arts by preventing artists from performing. It's scandalous...