Two days later, it became street-style photography bait when stylist Giovanna Battaglia sashayed into the Dior show wearing it.

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The supporting cast was top-notch, with Stefan Kocan a vocally and visually imposing Sparafucile and Maria Zifchak a spineless Giovanna.

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The government reaction has been stronger with calls from the sports minister, Giovanna Melandri, for all football matches to be suspended for the next few weeks.

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The situation, already tense, reached a critical point in late October, when Nicolae Romulus Mailat, a Romanian citizen, was charged with the murder in Rome of Giovanna Reggiani.

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The handsome young Benito Mussolini (Filippo Timi), a fiery socialist, receives the love (and the monetary support) of his mistress, Ida Dalser (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), who soon becomes his wife.

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One of the key presentations at the conference was given by Dr Giovanna Tinetti who's leading the Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory, or EChO, mission recently selected for further development by the European Space Agency.

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Giovanna Sardelli, who also has directed Joseph's "Animals Out of Paper, " has helmed this one not by steadily increasing the temperature but more like building a roller coaster, with sharp spikes of tension followed by slackness.

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After the stylist and editor Giovanna Battaglia took a spin and the machine offered up some eye shadow based on her selection, a representative from Chanel offered to send her some more products the next day at her office.

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South Africa's Desire Wilson was the next woman to enter a race in 1980, and it has been almost 20 years since Giovanna Amati drove for Brabham in 1992, but recently there have been reports claiming that Renault will sign Maria de Villota as the team's third driver.

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