Word: bambina
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...Italian films were often disguised as Hollywood films. They were in English (as released here) and usually boasted an American male star surrounded by a busty bambina and a cast of local scenery-chewers. Anthony Quinn must have had dual citizenship back then: he played in "Attila" with Sophia Loren, "Ulysses" with Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano, and Fellini's Oscar-winning "La Strada" with Giulietta Masina. I didn't see the "Hercules" movies and other sword-and-sand epics, but they were probably the biggest-grossing Italian pictures of the decade...
...World War II, Italy's shoemakers were a down-at-the-heels lot, and Fiamma Ferragamo was a bright-eyed bambina in Florence. Having grown up together, both the Italian shoe industry and Fiamma are now well accustomed to each other. The world's largest exporter of leather foot wear, Italy sold $315 million worth of shoes abroad last year, is running 25% ahead of that pace in 1968. And as part owner and chief designer for one of the best known of her country's 8,000 shoe manufacturers, raven-haired Fiamma, now 27, reigns...
...fell trying to escape, the other cowered in a corner. Ignoring them, Furnari calmly pocketed the gun and gave himself up to the police. To his weeping daughter, Furnari said sternly, "Why are you crying? For me? You should have thought of me before. I have vindicated your honor, bambina...
...married, of course, but it wasn't really necessary. Bambi, for example, lived a very good life indeed until a fanatical, strait-laced white lady persuaded him to marry one of his women. Until then, as Boy Blue related: "He wus livin' with Bots an' Bambina both all two at the same time, for a long, long time. An' they all had children for him. Bots had Puss in Boots Number Two an' Suck Me Toe, an' Bambina had three. Sugar Shine, Turtle Dove, an' Stumps. An' Bots an' Bambina...
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