Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remarkable example of self-criticism by a democratic society. Said the New York Times: "How rare the nation that seeks salvation by revealing such shame." In France, Interior Minister Gaston Defferre remarked, "This report is the honor of Israel. It gives the world a new lesson in democracy." The Italian Communist paper L'Unita called the report "a turning point for Israel," while Italian Journalist Arrigo Levi wrote in La Stampa of Turin: "It would be difficult to find any other nation at war that would let itself be subject to such an open and hard self-criticism...
Since their first feature film in 1962, the brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani have explored the themes and feelings of the Italian left. But their work is no forced march of socialist stereotypes. Like the characters in the Tavianis' Allonsanfan and Padre Padrone, the people of San Martino never surrender their luxuriant individuality. One young woman with a large birthmark on her cheek and a mischievous smile in her eyes tells a virginal girlfriend: "You don't know what it's like to be ugly and still feel beautiful." An angel-faced teen-age boy, whose ardor...
...most inaccessible thing about the show is its location, for the Nucleo Eclettico theater is well hidden beneath the European Restaurant near the Haymarket T station. The position gives the play a North End flavor. Bergonzi, especially, injects occasional Italian words into the dialogue...
...first gambit came from an unexpected source: the Soviet Union. In a new deal with the Italian government, the Soviets reduced the price of their crude by $2.15 per bbl., to $29.35, which was considerably lower than the OPEC benchmark price of $34. The Soviet Union produces more oil than any other country (12 million bbl. per day), and exports of crude account for 80% of its foreign currency earnings. Apparently, Moscow wants to protect its share of the oil market, or even increase sales, through price cutting. But almost no one followed the Soviet lead. Only Egypt, which exports...
Otherwise we will have governments cynically dispatching their national treasures all over the world, like greeting cards. France sent the Mona Lisa to Japan; Los Angeles is asking Italy for the Riace bronzes to promote the 1984 Olympics. "We must have the courage," declared the former Italian Minister for Arts and the Environment Vincenzo Scotti in a speech in New York last November, "to send our most precious masterpieces out of the country." It would be better to pray for the divine gift of cowardice and fly the audience to Italy instead...