Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here." With a green light from the Congregationalists, Delattre poked around North Beach-an Italian neighborhood with a heavy lacing of art galleries, sandal shoppes and beatnickery-and found a 30-by-40-ft. store at Greenwich Street and Grant Avenue. He moved his wife and two children into a flat upstairs, furnished the store with a hi-fi set, a coffee urn and 2,000 books of his own, and opened up a year...
...Minsky's Burlesque Baedeker in brief: ¶Germany-"The girls are awful; there's no taste to their numbers. They just strip. All those great big girls lumber around like cows." ¶Italy-"I don't know why, but they import all their strippers. Italian girls are only interested in the movies. It's like Hollywood 15 years ago; every girl is a starlet. I didn't meet one who didn't claim to have been in Ben Hur." ¶Denmark-"The emphasis is on vaudeville acts. One of the best...
...Roof (Italian). The housing shortage may sound like a trivial subject, but in Rome it can be heartbreaking, as this excellent neorealist film demonstrates with both humor and pathos...
Died. Pietro Canonica. 90, Italian sculptor who concentrated on heads of state (Russia's Alexander II, Turkey's Kemal Pasha) and churchmen (Benedict XV, Pius XI, St. John Bosco), fashioned the new bronze doors for Allied-bombed Monte Cassino Abbey, picturing U.S. and British air forces alongside Goths and Huns as the abbey's destroyers, composed operas (Miranda, Bride of Corinth); in Rome...
...Roof (Italian). A story of love and squalor in equal measure, directed and written by two of Italy's most formidable neorealists, Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini...