Word: italian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BOSTON--Between the pasta breakfast, the Old World music and the heavy concentration of state politicians, last Sunday's political roast at Joe Tecce's restaurant in the North End of Boston was at the heart of local Italian-American culture...
...more than a little ironic that the only remarks delivered in Italian were made by an Irish-American, Thomas F. Birmingham '72, president of the Massachusetts State Senate...
...name is Dario Fo, a 71-year-old Italian playwright who produces politically-oriented and often subversive comedy ? kind of like Samuel Beckett meets Tom Stoppard. His most popular plays include "Death of an Anarchist," "Mistero Buffo" ? which harks back to medieval mystery plays with its single performer and religious theme ? and "Elizabeth I," described as "the play Shakespeare never wrote...
...latter is what goes on typically among American cultural or ethnic groups-among the Irish on St. Patrick's Day and related events, among Chinese Americans in Chinese New Year, etc. Even non-natal ethnic persons can participate in these pragmatic solidarity, as I have done in Irish and Italian solidarity events, for they are civic solidarity in character, not sacred solidarity...
Daniel Beck, Gianni Versace's 8-year-old nephew, has a compelling reason to be nice to his sister. Allegra Beck, 11, is the main beneficiary of Versace's fortune, including his 45% share in the company, worth about $50 million, according to Italian news reports. Daniel didn't miss out entirely. He's said to have inherited his uncle's art collection, including works by Picasso, De Chirico and Leger...