Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consumer has prospered widely from these developments; the same size budget can now buy more Italian wines or French food processors. Life is also sweeter for American tourists traveling abroad (see box). Importers and corporations that buy raw materials from overseas have seen their costs cut dramatically. But the strong dollar has been a disaster for American exporters of everything from textiles to computer terminals, because it translates to foreign buyers exactly like a hefty price hike...
...page, item by item, lest you miss the quintessential Christmas gift for Aunt Susie-or yourself. Big and small, plain and fancy, the catalogues skimmed randomly seem like an incantatory litany of affluence: bulletproof vests and see-through lingerie, blackout candles and Waterford chandeliers, buffalo steaks, Texas chili and Italian cheese, Taos Indian drums, underwater cameras, solid-fuel rockets, night-vision goggles, woks, socks, building blocks, coffee roasters, toasters, coasters, cashmere sweaters, G strings, food processors, wine vinegar, wine racks and wine-flavored toothpaste, pineapple peelers, electronic potato parers, pear trees, frozen pheasants, silver stirrups, golden everything, robot chess partners...
Gaetano Altobelli (Philip Bosco) is an Italian-American ex-Mafioso "collector." Through assiduous upward social mobility, he has risen from his birthplace on Mulberry Street in Manhattan's Little Italy to become Hud's unwelcome neighbor. Gaetano's goodly impulse is to detox Hud: "You don't have to die." But Hud sees it as an intrusion of Wop on Wasp. He hurls endless ethnic slurs at Gaetano. To salvage Hud, Gaetano takes these insults with infinite good grace and gets enough snappers back to make the evening something of a celebrity roast. In the slugfest...
...ITALIANS COMPRISE almost one-fourth of New York State, and between Cuomo and his lieutenant governor candidate Alfred Delbello they have a chance to put two of their own into statewide prominence. Cuomo will probably be able to bring increasingly conservative Italian voters back into the coalition it only because of his own ethnicity...
With the ideological dichotomy between the two candidates so clear, the race has seen an unprecedented amount of ethnic campaigning Lehrman is Jewish, while most of the state's Jews are consistently liberal Cuomo is an Italian Catholic, while most of his fellows are much more conservative. The result is a feverish attempt by both candidates to raid the other's ethnic group while holding onto their...