Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fine Italian Head...
...hundred side streets one night last week, solitary Italian males popped discreetly into familiar shuttered houses for one final fling. Outside, plainclothes cops prowled, ready to squelch any farewell parties that showed signs of getting out of hand. Surrendering its distinction as the last West European nation to boast legalized brothels, Italy finally closed down its "houses of tolerance...
...closing was the sole triumph of Socialist Deputy Angelina Merlin, whose incessant appeals to conscience had finally driven Italy's reluctant male legislators into outlawing an industry that paid the Italian state $20 million a year in taxes and license fees (TIME...
...most popular indulgence was Rosemarie Nitribitt, a big-eyed and notably globoid blonde. Rosie's nest was feathered with Persian rugs, green velvet chairs, thick draperies, a multitude of mirrors, and a French double bed. Her closets were jammed with Paris-label dresses and 40 pairs of Italian shoes; and she always kept handy at least 150,000 marks (about $35,000) in cash...
...like high-IQ gossip and the characters are as plausibly etched as perfect counterfeit money. In 309 East & a Night of Levitation (TIME, Oct. 7, 1957), Author VanOrden showed a nice disinterest in anything ordinary. Now she makes up ordinary faces as if they were being prepared for an Italian fancy-dress ball. Her young Americans are rich, educated and self-consciously tortured by love and the need to prove that art and personality are more important than money and family. All are friends living in a convention-clamped New England university town. Except for Harold, a humorless but kindly...