I don't know what they are called in Italy, but here in America they are called "predators", and their sorry personage is posted on a national website so we know where you are and what you are doing at all times. Female artists are scornfully referred to as "cougars", but that's only if you are getting it over the road, all by yourself with no help from anybody.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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Wade G. Burck
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The gentleman sporting his tuxedo is Egidio Palmiri, 84.
He is considered the most powerful man in the Italian circus business.
Every italian circus proprietor, from the smallest to the biggest, ask his advice in case of every kind of problems or troubles with getting ground permissions in towns, having conflicts with colleagues, managing tours, etc.
He knew four Popes at the Vatican and all the Italian presidents.
By about 50 consecutively years, he is yearly elected president of ENC (italian circus proprietors association).
He is also president of the italian circus school by his foundation year (1989, I believe), done with public money.
He is also director of the italian circus magazine "Circo" published with public money.
He is also every year president of the jury of Latina Festival. By the time he started to preside this jury, the public money to the festival rose considerably.
To him is titled the "Centro di Documentazione Egidio Palmiri", a circus archive created with public money in the same building of his offices in Verona.
Mr. Palmiri was a daredevil performer in German circuses during WW II.
In the 50s and 60s he created in Italy his own circus "Palmiri-Benneweis", hiring the finest trainers, as Siemoneit or Trubka.
Raffaele,
In America, the use of "public money" is also often used for personal projects/new business ventures. The asking/using organization refers to it as a "donation," although the FBI refers to it as "extorting protection money." It's a system where by private citizens give an organization a "requested" amount of money each month as "insurance" that their shop windows won't get busted, their home won't burn to the ground, or their car doesn't explode expectantly.
Wade
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