Word: italianisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berlinguer, 46. Longo's health is failing; a stroke victim, he can deliver long speeches only from a sitting position. The handsome, vigorous Berlin guer is therefore almost certain to take over the party's leadership well before the 1974 elections and play a large role in Italian political life for years to come...
Continuous Gain. The Russian invasion, as far as the Italians are concerned, could scarcely have occurred at a worse time. Italian Communists have made steady political progress in 25 years. In the most recent national election last May, the party won 8,500,000 votes, or 26.9% of the total cast. Its bloc of 177 members in the Chamber of Deputies is the second biggest, after the Christian Democrats, and makes it impossible for the Christian Democrats to govern except through a coalition. The coalition-Christian Democrats and Socialists-is increasingly shaky, and the new government of Premier Mariano Rumor...
...officials have privately made it clear that the papacy is not likely to move an inch on .this issue. The only concession might be to permit civil divorce for purely civil marriages. Rome may also continue to insist on mandatory religious instruction in public schools despite the objections of Italian Protestants and Jews...
...attempt with the aid of the Monkey, a hypererotic fashion model from the impoverished hills of West Virginia who is the fulfillment of Portnoy's steamiest adolescent sex fantasies. The Monkey business ends in a frenzied bedroom burlesque in Rome, made the merrier by the participation of an Italian prostitute. Comments Portnoy: "I can best describe the state I sub sequently entered as one of unrelieved busy-ness." But instead of solving his problem, the Monkey is just another source of shame. She wants Alex's social respectability while he is interested only in satisfying his endless desires...
Charity began in 1957 as the title character of Nights of Cabiria, an Italian sleeper about a Punchinello prostitute. The director-writer was Federico Fellini; the star was his wife, Giulietta Masina. Maintaining the tradition, Fosse turned the film into a Broadway musical starring his wife, Gwen Verdon, as a heart-of-gold "hostess" named Charity Hope Valentine...