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De Tomaso, a maker of sporty cars, has been in financial trouble for years.
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His grandfather had been Italian, and Mr De Tomaso decided to make the return journey.
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Mr De Tomaso got a job with Maserati (which he was later to own for a time).
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Mr De Tomaso had started out as a racing driver, a star in the circuit of Buenos Aires, where he was born.
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He believed these notes were the work of the seventeenth-century Venetian composer Tomaso Albinoni, and spent the next twelve years reconstructing a larger piece from the charred manuscript fragment.
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Ferrari had tempted some wealthy Americans, but Mr De Tomaso had his eye on a bigger group: youngish professionals who might go for an upmarket car they could just afford, especially if it could bring a new thrill into their lives.
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Patrick De Bana's "Labyrinth of Solitude, " for a bare-chested Mr. Vasiliev, used the "Ciaconne" attributed to Tomaso Antonio Vitali to underpin a vignette for the intense, short-statured Russian that intermittently launched him into applause-winning spins and jumps meant, perhaps, to show the agony of art.
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