Word: italianisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...International Dictionary "Crush the pulp and stone of dates in a container, mix with hot water, clarify with lead acetate, add sugar to the mixture, then add chloridic acid. Heat to 60 or 70 degrees Centigrade. Let cool immediately and neutralize with potash." -Fake-wine recipe quoted in Italian court...
...considerable amount of its wine production is as far removed from the fermented juice of the grape as molasses is from pink champagne. For years, racketeers have bedeviled the country's important wine industry by ingeniously simulating the taste, bouquet and appearance of every known type of Italian wine. Using a grizzly variety of waste materials and chemicals, they make wine in as little as eight hours (v. as much as a year for genuine wine). They then sell the fake brew to unsuspecting Italians and tourists as the real vino...
...present Documenta IV more than lives up to its reputation-a particular triumph in troubled '68. The near recession in West Germany last year forced the show's budget to be slashed. The country's militant student New Left, encouraged by the success Italian youths had enjoyed in upstaging the Venice Biennale, threatened to disrupt the Documenta. Shipments from France were delayed by strikes, and artists labored through the night before the opening, installing exhibits. Still, the show began on time for a three-month run-and it was like...
Theatregoers of today can reasonably be expected to show familiarity with the stock characters of the old Italian commedia dell'arte, from which Shakespeare took the five low-comedy figures that Berowne ticks off as "The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool, and the boy." Respectively, Holofernes corresponds to the dottore, Armado to the capitano, Nathaniel to the pantalone and parasite, Moth (a wit) and Costard (a dimwit) to the comic servants (zanni). But it seems that Shakespeare also had in mind here poking fun at such now-forgotten men as Thomas Nashe, Gabriel Hervey, and John Florio...
...house lights go out, a howling mob in the rear charges through the audience. Fans scream. Unshakeable photographers, like the Italian paparazzi, click their cameras. The reason? Berowne (in a mod green and lavender outfit), Longaville (Ted Graber), and Dumaine (Anthony Mainionis) have arrived, with Air India tote-bags slung over their shoulder, intent on making a retreat--just like a trio of Beatles. The King (Charles Siebert), bearded, barefoot, and white-gowned, is their chosen guru, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, speaking in a foreign accent. The constable Dull (Rex Everhart) is in khaki uniform with a sergeant's chevrons...