Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Industrial design, in the Italian manner, has long meant sophisticated elegance. Products like Ettore Sottsass Jr.'s Olivetti Valentine typewriter, Marco Zanuso's Aurora fountain pen or Mario Bellini's Chiara lamp are displayed in modern art museums to exemplify beauty...
...function. But the marriage was rarely consummated, and "functional design" more often than not has become just another style that sometimes obstructs practical function. In industrial design, particularly in America, the engineers may call the shots. Designers are brought in to package the product for sales appeal. Says Italian-born American Designer Massimo Vignelli: "The good thing about design in Italy is that there are no marketing people around to tell you what you can do or cannot do with your designs, which really is the condition, sine qua non, for getting good design on the streets...
...manager of this hotel was an Italian named Tosco. He wore a silver bracelet and pinched our faces too hard . . . Tosco liked Honduras. It was nice and cheap. You could do anything you wanted here, he said...
...trim, crew-cut Dozier, 50, the days following his dramatic rescue by a team of Italian antiterrorist commandos on Jan. 28 have been a whirlwind of debriefings, press conferences and meetings with heads of state in both Italy and the U.S. Before flying to Washington for breakfast with Reagan, the general lunched with Italian President Sandro Pertini, then met with Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini at Rome's Chigi Palace. Throughout, Dozier handled himself like a practiced politician, showing no signs of the anxiety or depression that so often afflicts victims of a hostage taking. Only once, when...
After Dozier completes several days of debriefings with U.S. officials in Washington this week, the Pentagon will have to decide whether he will return to his NATO assignment in Verona. Italian authorities believe he is still a prime target for a Red Brigades assassination attempt. Though Dozier would like to return, he admits his presence might create problems. For now, he is content to take a well-earned two-week leave. Confessed the soldier turned hero in a moment of candor: "I've been on a treadmill...