Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gortchakov and Eugenia travel around the southern Italian countryside, presumably to research the biography the poet is writing. Throughout, there is an erotic tension between the two. Nothing, however, happens--everything remains at the stage where emotions are present as suggestions and undertones, never as catalysts to action...
...over British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's demand for a refund on her country's outsize contribution to the Community's budget. Though Thatcher cut her demand to $1.12 billion and Mitterrand sweetened his offer to $935 million, the gap could not be bridged. Thatcher, grumbled Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, "used to be the Iron Lady. Now she is Mme. Nyet...
...sometime in the 1950s, perhaps the last decade when fidelity counted for more than fulfillment, Jack Henna, an Italian immigrant insurance salesman, makes a routine visit to the Waspy widow of a policyholder. He falls passionately, inexplicably in love. Some days later, Henna leaves his family for a night and moves in, uninvited, to the ram shackle farm of the widow and her resentful son. His every at tempt, from seduction to cooking, fails to move his beloved to commitment. The next morning, resigned to the impossibility of escaping a wife whom he no longer desires and two sons...
...straddles the sociological distance between - Marty and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. The ground traversed contains the grit of auto biography; Giardina grew up in Waltham, Mass., the setting of the novel. Even the reticence of his characters may reflect home truths: Henna's officemates have Italian surnames, but they scarcely discuss ethnicity. In time with their times, they share his fervor for feeling American. Yet there are hints of the conscious ness of decades to come: the widow realizes she wants to learn to fend for herself...
DIED. Aurelio Peccei, 75, Italian industrialist and founding president (in 1968) of the Club of Rome, the international think tank that caused a worldwide stir with its 1972 book The Limits to Growth, warning of impending environmental catastrophe; of a heart attack; in Rome...