Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deported from the U.S. in 1946 and from Cuba in 1947, onetime Vice Racketeer Charles ("Lucky") Luciano glumly faced possible deportation from Rome to his native Sicily. Italian police suspected that he was mixed up in dope smuggling. Protested his girl friend, from Luciano's Rome penthouse: "It's like Charley always said, just persecution, that...
...Italian artists who composed that manifesto in 1910 called themselves "Futurists" and thought they had hit upon the makings of a modern renaissance. One of the best, Umberto Boccioni, sculptured a figure that aptly symbolized their program: a striding man transformed into a flamelike tangle of whipping air currents...
Another exhibitor was Giorgio Morandi, considered by some Italian critics as Italy's best living painter. Morandi's specialty is bottles, preferably empty bottles. He has been arranging them on tables in his dusty Bologna studio for most of his 59 years, painting them as undramatically as he can, in pale, dry colors. The show contained examples of his endless variety: bottles grouped like ballet dancers, like factory chimneys, or just like bottles...
More to Come. Then there was 37-year-old Communist Renato Guttuso. His painting of a peasant wood chopper being shot in the back gave a broad hint of why Guttuso's Italian fellow Communists now object to his work. The poster-bright colors and the shapes which looked as if they had been hacked out by a hoe were reminiscent of Comrade Picasso's art, but like Picasso's they deviated from the "realism" the party presently admires. At the opposite extreme was 52-year-old Antonio Donghi's meticulous The Hunter, which...
...course throughout the 24 hours of the race. Only 19 of the 49 entries finished. One generous French driver, Henri Louveau, threw away his chance of winning by stopping to help an Englishman who had cracked up on a curve. Another Englishman, 36-year-old Lord Selsdon, driving an Italian-made, twelve-cylinder Ferrari, barely stood off Louveau's challenge and won, with an average of 82 m.p.h. for 1,975 miles...