Afterwards I am going back to London for Greco Roman wrestling, synchronised swimming, table tennis, badminton.
Its narrator, Elena Greco, recalls her Neapolitan childhood and adolescence, in the late nineteen-fifties.
"At 208 mph, you have no friends--but me, " Greco laughed, as I climbed from the car.
English is alive with such Greco-Latin mongrels as amoral, biodiversity, hypermarket, inorganic, perinatal, television.
The sport has been contested in two styles, Greco-Roman and freestyle, since the 1920 Games in Belgium.
The family, who are also suing state-owned museums, say Hungary has about 40 works, including paintings by El Greco.
Remember that so-called XT502 "Greco" from Motorola that the Bluetooth SIG slipped a few details on last month?
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The Otsuka is the only place in the world to see all six panels of El Greco's 41-foot-tall "High Altar" together.
There were 344 wrestlers competing in 11 medal events in freestyle and 7 events in Greco-Roman at the 2012 London Games.
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The Otsuka is the only place in the world to see all six panels of El Greco's 12-meter- tall "High Altar" together.
Greco-Roman wars are better to watch at the movies than on CNN.
Yet El Greco also takes pains to link the two spheres, not so much to unify his picture as to underscore its implicit message.
Greek writers such as Herodotus and Aeschylus, who naturally sided with their fellow Hellenes when describing the Greco-Persian wars, misrepresented them as barbaric and indolent.
The decision to nix wrestling is also a blow to the United States, recently one of the more successful nations in both freestyle and Greco-Roman events.
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It was founded in 1924 by Greek refugees from Constantinople (now Istanbul) -- with AEK standing for Athletic Union of Constantinople in English -- following the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-1922.
But his projection of the shape of the world is still something we would recognize today, and the placement of cities and countries within the Greco-Roman empire is highly accurate.
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In his wildly expressive, Mannerist heaven and eloquent, earthly realm, hints of El Greco's deeply idiosyncratic later style abound, one that would perfectly parallel the increasingly abstract theological tenets they embraced.
He also maintains a vast art collection, including works by El Greco, Lichtenstein, Motherwells, Picasso and Rothko, in addition to a real estate portfolio comprised of properties in Texas and Hawaii.
Mr Raby said "what's extraordinary about Cyrus, is that he appears as a paragon of princely statesmanship in the two pillars of Western cultures, that is the Greco-Roman tradition and the Bible".
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Athens' National Art Gallery showcases works from the 14th to the 20th centuries, and is best known for its collections of Greek and Renaissance art, including paintings by El Greco, Tiepolo and Brueghel.
In contrast, the painting's lower, terrestrial register reflects a burgeoning Spanish taste for naturalism, a gift for portraiture the painter had honed in Italy, and the reality of the Toledo El Greco knew.
Capture the spirit of kitschy Vegas at Caesars Palace as you sit by the Garden of the Gods pool oasis, surrounded by Greco-Roman statuary, while being offered frozen grapes by a goddess in a skimpy toga.
But it is El Greco's studied, and more naturalist style here, as captured again in breathtaking details, that compels us to believe in miracles: Who could doubt the presence of the early Christian martyr St.
The Tuesday announcement that the IOC was dropping wrestling entirely stunned Rulon Gardner, the American who pulled off a famous Olympic upset at the 2000 Sydney Games, when he beat Russian legend Aleksandr Karelin to win Greco-Roman gold.
It is entirely appropriate to remember a great, no-nonsense Englishman, the Lord Protector Cromwell, instituted the Commonwealth of Great Britain long before the French or American revolutions, and he showed us a model without that Greco-Roman name of republic.
"Out of everyone I know in the rapping industry, there is no way I would have ever, ever expected to find that he was shot on the Las Vegas Strip in such an aggressive manner, " said Vicki Greco, Cherry's attorney.
Shortage of money has prevented them from digging year round, and this autumn they had to stop on the verge of what their team leader, Professor Emmanuele Greco from Naples, describes as sensational new discoveries which throw light on the true whereabouts of Sybaris.
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Well, the FCC just passed a Motorola handset codenamed "Greco, " conveniently, and a look at the test docs says that this phone will be known on the market as the Quench XT3 and XT5 (we're not sure what the difference will be between the two exactly).
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His early training as an icon painter in Greece, his subsequent study in Renaissance Venice and Rome, and his efforts, after arriving in Spain in 1577, to attract prominent patrons, all figure in El Greco's canvas, where both Eastern and Western traditions combine to transform his memorial into a cogent contemporary parable.
More than its blended iconography or august, prayerful figures, however, the painter's pictorial language defines El Greco's vision of heaven: The amorphous, billowing clouds, silvery palette and mannered, phantomlike personages who float in indeterminate space and time (including, prematurely, Spain's King Philip II) defy the laws and logic of material reality to conjure another realm.
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