Word: italianisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communist party congresses are usu ally thoroughly predictable, ritualistic affairs, and for a time last week the Twelfth Congress of the Italian party in Bologna observed the punctilios. The valiant North Vietnamese delegation was vigorously applauded, exiles from Greece were sympathetically received, and representatives from 34 other na tions were recognized. But then, for the 1,041 delegates and 4,000 observers in Bologna's overheated sports arena, the ritual ended. Secretary-General Luigi Longo, 68, signaled the change with some curious additions to and omissions from his four-hour keynote speech. He praised, of all people, Pope Paul...
Charity has two major loves during the course of the film, a super-sophisticated Italian movie star and a super-straight insurance man. As soon as she enters these men's lives, Charity becomes engulfed in romantic cliché and extraneous musical numbers. Romantic ballads (some not originally in the stage version), a marching ode to love, and production numbers concerned with psychedelic religions and swank night clubs simply do not mesh with the picture's original motif. Luckily, most of these songs are splendid in themselves--but the ultimate effect is one of uneasiness...
...attempting to reduce the violence. The hero is a stodgy professor of criminology (James Whitmore); his inevitable sidekick, Tony (Enzo Cerusico), is a cross between Kookie of 77 Sunset Strip and Chester of Gunsmoke. He doesn't limp like Chester; he just trips a lot over his Italian accent. The remaining replacement series are game shows. The Generation Gap from David Susskind's Talent Associates, pits a team of three teen-agers against a trio of adults. The kids, it turned out, could not identify Eddie Cantor or the FCC. The fogeys didn't know...
Clothes counted, but not much. Folk over 35 preferred the "expensive square" look: Italian tailoring for the men, boots and casual furs for the wives. The younger element went in for "proletarian mod"-long hair, long coats and long pants on the girls, 19th century haircuts, leather jackets and blue jeans...
Lunch in the Warehouse. The son of poor immigrants named Papadopoulos, young Tom started out in the grimy Greek-Italian North End of Boston. There he shortened his name, finished high school and expanded his father's grocery into a chain of 30 stores, which he sold in the early 1950s to get capital for investment in many other business ventures. Today he owns a food-importing company and a real estate firm in Boston, in addition to Atlantic Maritime Enterprises Co., which operates ten oil tankers that fly the Greek and Liberian flags...