Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sank mysteriously in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal on Jan. 17,1980. The trouble was that the cargo it had left in Durban had actually been owned all along by the Shell International trading company, and the Salem was supposed to have been carrying it to the Italian port of Genoa. As soon as it became known that the Salem's cargo had in effect been sold twice, there were allegations that the tanker had been scuttled to hide that fact. The South African government revealed to Parliament last week that it had subsequently paid an additional...
lacocca, the son of Italian immigrants, is fighting for his corporation's life, and growing numbers of viewers seem to be buying his act. Says Abe Gurewitz, 54, a Brooklyn cab driver: "I saw him on TV and I like the guy. He's turning around a company that was down the drain. He has guts." Nor has lacocca's commercial charisma escaped notice by Wall Street's savviest auto analyst, Maryann Keller of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins. Says she: "I wouldn't doubt that people have bought Chrysler cars just because they wanted Lee lacocca to make...
...pressures have killed off one family institution, a weekly low-stakes card game with a group of friends known as the Friday Night Poker Society that frequently met in a game room dubbed Lido's Lounge. lacocca does still find time to indulge a predilection for preparing his own Italian sauces. During a father-and-daughter European trip, he even induced an Italian hotel-owning friend in Modena to let him spend several hours observing the kitchen chef. Says he: "I cook on weekends mostly. Mary says it's O.K. as long as I have three guys follow along behind...
Originating in the South Bronx in the mid-'70s, rap music is a cultural anthropologist's mother lode. It combines musical influences as disparate as disco, George Clinton funk, conventional R & B and Ennio Morricone scores for Italian westerns, cross-pollinates them with the Jamaican disc jockey's art of "toasting" (talking over the instrumental breaks in records) and a street kid's fondness for boasting, synthesizes the results with some distinctly contemporary audio technology and winds up with a sound that invites deejays at local dance palaces to "scratch" the surface. The deejays...
...side were two carabinieri, the Italian uniformed authorities. They wanted him to put his pants on and get out of the middle of the street. For several minutes he steadfastly refused. The crowd backed him forcefully. "I-TAL-IA! I-TAL-IA! I-TAL-IA!" they shouted supportively reinforcing the lone man's patriotism...