Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There remains a widespread tendency among the uptight to protect tender minds by censoring sources of information concerning the magnitude of sexual variation in the world at large, and historic figures in particular. A recent Italian television series on the life of Leonardo DaVinci provides an example of how history is managed. One episode concerned the young DaVinci and his friends being hauled in before the local inquisition. The English narration as seen in America described the case as "heresy," thereby protecting our American sensibilities from the dreadful historic facts of his well known homosexuality...
Dissident Issue. Neither Berlinguer nor Marchais has any desire to provoke a rupture with Moscow over the dissident issue. Not now at least. The Italians defend free expression but draw the line at anti-Soviet hostility. The party still has a large constituency of working-class oldtimers who not only look to Moscow as their ideological mecca but who have grown restive about Berlinguer's tacit support for Premier Giulio Andreotti's Christian Democratic minority government. When Carrillo recently declared that repression of dissidents showed that the "Soviet Union is not really a popular democracy but a dictatorship...
...Morrow says "American men rarely kiss other men, unless they are father and son, or unless they are homosexual." Obviously, Morrow has not attended an Italian-American wedding...
...Cigar," possesses truly impressive criminal credentials. He has spent almost half his life in prison on charges ranging from gambling, narcotics trafficking and bootlegging to extortion, assault and homicide. Galante first gained respect within the Mafia for his suspected involvement in the murder of Carlo Tresca, an Italian-American newspaper editor and enemy of Benito Mussolini; police believed that Tresca was knocked off at the urging of il Duce himself...
When he was 23 and waiting for the Italian movie industry to rise from the ashes of World War II, Federico Fellini earned his living in Rome by drawing droll sidewalk portraits of Allied soldiers. He got so good at it that he even opened a little studio called the Funny Face Shop. In the quarter-century since La Strada made him famous, Fellini has never stopped "doodling," as he calls it -turning out thousands of sketches of his actors' faces, costumes and wigs. Unbeknownst to him, some friends organized a show at Zurich's Galerie Daniel Keel...