Word: vincenzo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, the investigators are looking into reports that the mobsters held him somewhere in eastern Long Island and released him only after members of his family paid them an undisclosed bonus. The Sindona case is also being investigated in Italy, where police have arrested two brothers, Rosario and Vincenzo Spatola, both Sicilian contractors, for complicity in the financier's disappearance...
...problem was, he had forgotten both the charcoal and the lighter fluid. Vincenzo had come up with the idea of using rolled up pamphlets, and maybe even one of the banners. We voted. It was ratified, accepted into law in a matter of minutes, and soon the benevolent Bronze was warming all our fannies...
What Zefferelli and Prokoviev did to Romeo and Juliet, Vincenzo Bellini did earlier. Bellini, an Italian composer of the early nineteenth century, found arias where Prokoviev later discovered pas de deux. The opera, I Capuletti e I Montecchi, according to Loeb p.r., is marked by "intriguing departures from the original plot to produce a reinterpretation of Shakespeare's timeless theme," The Capulets and Montagues return to their original Italian from Shakespeare's English in the early May production at the Loeb...
...Metropolitan Opera used to be known as a rich, acquisitive collector of the biggest stars available. There are not so many supersingers around now, and the Met has been hiring them less frequently. Last week in its first production of Vincenzo Bellini's I Puritani in almost 60 years, the company reverted to its grand old ways, presenting three top international singers-Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti and Sherrill Milnes. It made a particularly satisfying, old-fashioned night at the opera...
...Genoa, Italy, members of the Red Brigades, a revolutionary Marxist group, seized an official of a state-owned factory, Vincenzo Casabona, 47, shaved his head, chained his feet to a pole in a garbage dump, and released him six hours later after a vicious beating...