Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restaurant, which will seat about 55, will serve "continental and American food with a strong Italian accent" at a cost of $18 to $25 per person, Silver, the restaurant's Italian-trained chef, said...
...bizarre showcase for all this lethal hardware is the 13-month-old Persian Gulf conflict. Iraq has been using Soviet MiG jets, French Mirage jets, Brazilian Urutu armored personnel carriers, and Soviet T-72 tanks to fight Iran's American F-4 jets, British Chieftain tanks and Italian-built Chinook helicopters. "The Iran-Iraq arms buildup is a classic case of internal pressures and external fears combining to produce a disaster," says a diplomat who has served in both countries...
...popular impression of Rossini as a composer of comic operas has not changed much since Beethoven. "Give us more Barbers," the mighty German is supposed to have advised the young Italian, and succeeding generations have endorsed Beethoven's opinion. The creator of Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola and L 'Italiana in Algeri is usually considered a deft musical comic whose work sparkles with wit and high spirits...
DIED. Luigi Petroselli, 49, typographer's son who joined the Italian Communist Party at age 19 and rose to become the first Communist to serve as mayor of Rome; of a heart attack; in Rome. Affectionately nicknamed "Joe Bananas" because of his twisted smile and boxer-like stance, the popular Petroselli, who took office in 1979, enhanced Rome's amenities by turning an area near the Coliseum into a Sundays-only pedestrian mall and instituting summer evening presentations of music, films and plays...
DIED. Edmondo ("Papa") Zacchini, 87, Italian-born circus clown credited with developing the perilous, modern "human cannonball" act in 1922; in Tampa. Zacchini broke his right leg the first time he used a spring-powered cannon to hurl him 20 ft When he came to the U.S. to join the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey circus in 1930, he had already designed compressed-air cannons that could send him or one of his six brothers flying 100 ft through the air, although by the time he stopped performing the stunt in 1934 he had suffered four other leg fractures...