Word: sicilian
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...Sicilian politics, a kiss is usually just a kiss. There were plenty to go around last week as Sicily's regional President, Salvatore Cuffaro, hit the campaign trail ahead of his re-election bid this Sunday. During a morning presentation of his policy platform, the stout and smiling 48-year-old was sharing two-cheek kisses with almost every supporter who passed through campaign headquarters. Later, he arrived at the poorly-equipped Villa Sofia Hospital in northern Palermo to pledge four new outpatient beds for a multiple sclerosis treatment center. The 100 or so patients and family members assembled...
After 43 years, Bernardo Provenzano, the Sicilian Mafia's elusive capo dei capi, the boss of bosses, was run to ground just a mile west of the town of his birth, Corleone, a place made famous by the fictional protagonists in Mario Puzo's saga The Godfather. Provenzano had run the enormous La Cosa Nostra crime organization by way of messages on slips of paper, called pizzini, smuggled out from his hiding places over the years. But Cortese finally found him by following peripatetic packages of clean laundry from the home of Provenzano's wife in Corleone. Each delivery...
...That's Sicilian!" Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia explained, after making a rude hand gesture last week when asked what he'd say to critics who question his impartiality. Here's a look at four other memorable moments in the long, colorful history of the political insult...
Today it's hard not to recognize Dolce's Sicilian roots, so ingrained are they in the fashion iconography of the late 1980s and '90s: Isabella Rossellini posing as an actress in the style of the neorealistic cinema that her father founded; Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington dressed as showgirls falling in love with Italian boys in New York City's Little Italy; Monica Bellucci re-enacting Fellini's La Dolce Vita. The designers' ad campaigns alone?most shot by Steven Meisel?are a lesson in vintage Italian style...
...could tailor a suit by age 7?Gabbana is more attuned to street trends. It has always been thus; ever since the street-smart Gabbana became entranced by Dolce's southern Italian roots and began embroidering upon that exoticism?the romance, the corsets?forcing Dolce to re-examine a Sicilian heritage that has become the leitmotif of the brand...