Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playwright is confusing in his choice of enemies: in 1970 the Italian Communist Party stopped supporting him because he ridiculed it-as he did such other institutions as the Roman Catholic Church, the Christian Democrats and the CIA.) The playwright himself was stopped at the golden door, but his ideas, the quintessential and presumably most dangerous part of him, were free, theoretically, to sail in and raise hell up and down the American mind, waving torches, screaming anarchy. Somehow they do not seem that incendiary. Fo's creations sometimes look like Bertolt Brecht being done by the Marx Brothers...
Both frolicsome and mordant, Fo's work is beginning to find American audiences. The Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., has undertaken one of his better-known leftist carnivals. Accidental Death of an Anarchist, written in 1970, is based on the actual case of an Italian anarchist named Giuseppe Pinelli. Accused of terrorism, Pinelli is said to have jumped to his death from the fourth-floor window of Milan police headquarters. Fo suspected, and a later investigation proved, that Pinelli was pushed out the window by the police...
Compared with the withdrawal of the Italian force, which took place in the streets of the city and had an elegant, professional quality, the departure of the Marines was casual and at times almost furtive. The difference was not merely of style; throughout their stay, the Italians were able to maintain their role as peace keepers, while the American force came to be seen as an active supporter of the government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, a Maronite Christian. With the departure of the British, the Italians and the bulk of the American contingent, the 1,250-man French unit...
...largely unnoticed facts about current art is that despite the hoopla made over some national groups of painters-mainly German and Italian-a great deal of the most inventive and solid painting in the '80s keeps being done by the English. One thinks immediately of Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin or half a dozen others. And among them, prominently, one thinks of Malcolm Morley. Morley is 52. His first retrospective-curated by Nicholas Serota, director of London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, and handsomely introduced by Art Historian Michael Compton-has spent the past year touring from Basel to London...
Democratic freshman Bruce Morrison of Connecticut, at 39 seemingly too young for his New Deal Politics, faces Larry DeNardis, an exponent of the Italian-American machine politics which has dominated his New Haven district since the fifties. Morrison nipped DeNardis 50 to 49 percent...