Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mute. The only way they can communicate is through the pictures and symbols on a pack of tarot cards. That seems the borrowed inspiration of a green writer who has been rifling Borges or Nabokov-a novelist who depends on conjury, not creativity. Yet the tarot notion comes from Italian Fabulist Italo Calvino, 53, who has been producing such chimerical conceptions in his books for over 30 years. What is more important, he has consistently fleshed them out in original, whimsical and unsettling ways...
...Privy Seal at 34, Minister for League of Nations Affairs at 37 and Foreign Secretary less than a year later. As Foreign Secretary from 1935 to 1938, he raced to get ahead of the swiftly moving events in a radically changing Europe: the resurgence of Germany under Hitler, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), and the Spanish civil...
...complaint is that worldwide shipping is so diffuse that effective regulation is impossible. As Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Warren Magnuson put it last week: "I don't see how you can have control when you have American-owned ships insured by the British, run by the Greeks, with Italian officers and a Chinese crew...
...when it seemed that the Communists might make major gains in last June's elections, Switzerland was awash in a flood of lire. In an attempt to crack down on foreign accounts, Guardia officials were reportedly posted outside Swiss banks to take down the license numbers of Italian motorists making deposits...
...name is Jean), send their children to the Dalton School, winter in St. Maarten or Gstaad, summer in the Hamptons, patronize the priciest boutiques but also thriftshop, and know exactly where to find the best buys in catered canapés, scuba lessons, English butlers, conversational Italian, take-out lasagna, abortions, exterminators, '76 Beaujolais, yachts, docks, clocks, stocks, rocks, lox and woks. Also rijsttafel, macramé and dog psychologists who make house calls. With all this, plus extramarital affairs to save their marriages and therapeutic sex with their shrinks, New York's New Yorkers lead busy, busy lives...