Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monotonous. It consisted of the three Ms-meal, meat and molasses, the meal being corn meal and the meat fat back or side meat. A related fact-though no one at the time suspected the connection-was that every year the South had 400,000 new cases of pellagra (Italian for rough skin). The victims' feet and hands (sometimes neck and face) burned with red, scaling patches; their tongues and mouths were so inflamed and sensitive that they could hardly eat; they became lethargic and nervous, often to the point where they were sent off to mental hospitals...
Gold of Naples. Italian Director Vittorio De Sica makes high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica (TIME...
...tourists and fewer novelists visit the Molise region, which stretches, a withered Achilles tendon, above the heel of the Italian peninsula. Novelist Giose Rimanelli, who was born in this doomed place, has produced a bitter fictional report centered on a village that hangs like an abandoned bird's nest on a waterless escarpment between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic. His story, in translation at least, is as stiff, ill-fitting and yet appropriate as a peasant's wedding suit...
...based on The Three-Cornered Hat, the well-known Spanish comedy of confusion by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, offers somewhat more confusion and rather less comedy than the novel. But the comedy is always pleasant, and the confusion, as Director Mario Camerini merrily confounds it in this Italian translation, has something of the suspense and desperate fascination of a tangle in milady's drawstrings...
Gold of Naples. Italian Director Vittorio De Sica makes high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren. Silvano Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica (TIME...