Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighborhood's biggest ethnic populations are Portuguese and Italian, each group making up about a fifth of the area's residents. In addition, large numbers of Irish and Polish descendants live in East Cambridge...
Unlike the Square area, a close-knit ethnic population characterizes Cambridge's eastern shore. The main street of the city's first industrial area is lined with drugstores and small shops which reflect the neighborhood's diverse ethnic composition. There is an Italian bakery, Irish pub, Portuguese sandwich shop, and Greek cafe...
...marvelous thing about the Royal Academy's exhibition is the freshness and intelligence with which so much work is placed before the eye. This show is no routine "blockbuster," no flabby "Gold of the Gorgonzolas." It has been meticulously chosen by a committee of leading English and Italian scholars. It will open up areas of Venetian art that few but specialists were aware of. One is the print, part of the legacy of the 16th century publisher Aldus Minutius. The skill and beauty of the Aldine editions of illustrated works like the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili fostered an unsurpassed quality...
...play opens with great promise, building the comic intensity will through the first act. The small theatre is tucked away in the basement of an Italian restaurant, and with intrepid imagination in set design, we easily believe that we are sitting in a seedy but bright, lower class North End apartment. From the crowded clotheslines hanging across the theatre to the peeling paint on the dingy walls to the dirty linoleum floor, the intimate theatre-in-the round atmosphere brings us completely into Berto's apartment...
...first act's jokes and jibes build to a peak full of sexual and cultural references and effectively contrast the modern, sterile WASP society with the lively traditional Italian, by pitting the soft-spoken and slender Aggy against the raucous and obese Francine...