Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these confusing signals. Nonetheless, the complaints of the Europeans again highlight the difficulty of getting the allies to work in concert at times of crisis. That problem may be insoluble. "It would always be better if the West could react in solidarity and immediately to a Soviet challenge," wrote Italian Columnist Arrigo Levi in La Stampa last week. "But the West is not an empire. It is an alliance of free people that must take into account the diversity of its opinions and interests...
...newspapers in Rome and Milan: U.S. Brigadier General James Dozier, kidnaped from his Verona apartment on Dec. 17, had been executed. The anonymous caller said the corpse of "the Yankee pig General Dozier" could be found in an abandoned building 30 miles from Pescara on the Adriatic coast. Italian police searched the area fruitlessly...
...Lewis defended Reagan, claiming that the president has "moderated his tones over the last year--he is more realistic and rational." When asked by Piero Benetazzo of La Republica, an Italian newspaper, whether U.S. foreign policy could be "more consistent and more consensus-oriented," Lewis said, "Our system has a certain amount of in-coherence and I see nothing that can be done to change that fact...
This unlikely quintet may not exactly fulfill the ART audience's collective expectations. They sing the original Italian libretto, for instance, and tend to roll about the floor in odd formation--but their capacity to charm and delight is endless. All five are top-flight performers: well-suited vocally for Handel's soft, delicate arias, and passionate and convincing as actors. Sanford Sylvan reveres every syllable he sings as Orlando, and his gentle descent into madness (represented as the planet Mars in this production) is mesmerizing. Janet Brown's rendition of the queen/deb Angelica's melancholy reflection on false hopes...
...European throats are now selling Europeans to Americans; beneath all the excited talk of how American cultural imperialism has at last been rejected, and how national artists in Germany or Italy dominate the cultural horizon, the same mechanisms of the market grind imperturbably on. Last year it was young Italian artists-Cucchi, Chia, Clemente; this year, Germans...