Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heading a top international cast, Italian Baritone Renato Bruson was totally in harmony with the conductor. His Sir John was not the lecherous, cardboard heavyweight of operatic cliche but a man of complex emotions-however inappropriately addressed to two married ladies of Windsor After a somewhat tentative start, Bruson's sharply focused voice proved equal to Verdi's demands, from the boisterous "L'onore" monologue at the end of the first scene to the sprightly C major fugue that closes the work...
...health boom has undoubtedly helped to popularize the Italian national dish. Some nutritionists consider it a diet food. Despite the Italian maxim Quel che non ammazza ingrassa (What doesn't kill you fattens you), plain pasta contains no more calories than rice or potatoes. It has protein, phosphorus, calcium, niacin, thiamine, riboflavin, iron and potassium, but is low in sodium...
...This is Italian family month in New York museums. First, the Museum of Modern Art's great retrospective of Giorgio de Chirico to fix the paternity, or some of it, and now the offspring, or some of them, at the Guggenheim Museum. "Italian Art Now: An American Perspective" is the latest in the Guggenheim's discursive series of "sample shows" of the current art of different nations. It covers the work of seven artists: three painters (Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Nino Longobardi), two sculptors (Giuseppe Penone and Gilberto Zorio) and two conceptual/per formance artists (Luigi Ontani and Vettor...
Clearly, this affair-put together by the museum's deputy director, Diane Waldman-does not pretend to be a full survey of Italian art now. Yet she has tried to suggest the eclecticism of the Italian scene by focusing on its manierismo. Most of the artists are obsessed, one way or another, with pastiche, allegory, narcissistic display, irony and side quotation. They are also inclined to a somewhat dandified and bogus kind of religiosity, which...
DEATH REVEALED. Tom McHale, 40, irreverent writer of baroque novels that raged with comic lunacy and roared through the conflicts of middle-class Irish and Italian Catholics; by his own hand (carbon monoxide poisoning); on March 30; in Pembroke Pines, near Miami. McHale won critical praise for his first novels, Principato (1970) and Farragan's Retreat (1971), but six subsequent novels never reached that early level of achievement...