Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Portuguese groceries featuring sausages and squid and the Santo Christo Society with the Portuguese flag in front slowly give way to Italian East Cambridge, where everyone gathers on the main street to chat. Kids play craps on a side street crosswalk, and every home with a few feet between it and the sidewalk has a garden--lush beds of marigolds, cucumbers and tomatoes...
...comprehensive idea of where to get away in Boston by going to the movie "Where's Boston?" shown near Government Center. Best bets are the North End, the Italian section of the city where pasta and festivals abound, the Aquarium and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The Gardner Museum is most interesting in winter, when baby's breath bloom throughout the skylighted inner courtyard. A replica of a 15th-century Venetian palace, the Gardner houses an impressive collection of Oriental rugs and pieces by Rembrandt, Matisse, Whistler and Sargent. Three days a week it sponsors concerts...
...Boston's Italian-American community invites anyone to watch and even take part in their religious festivals, some of which are being held over the next two weeks (see folk listings...
...North End is Boston's Italian-American community, and during these festivals it is draped and decked with ribbons and lights, the streets are full of children and elders and food and wine...
...Green Line will take you there. Just get off at Haymarket and walk up to Salem St. If you get lost, ask for directions. Or follow the smell or the noise. But if some overbearing food vendor tries to sell you the tripe--an infamous Italian-American delicacy--beware. It's cow intestine...