Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nemorino loves Adina, hotel owner and belle of a small town in the West. The West of what is never specified, and the saloon's stained-glass windows, the standard Italian names, clash oddly with the smattering of tagged-on Harvard jokes to keep the setting questionable. Adina shuns Nemorino's attentions and smiles instead on Sergeant Belcore, a grimacing, pillow-stuffed dandy who has just marched into town and showered her with his military...
...sound indistinguishable from those on the VOA or England's BBC World service. This new sophistication, however, does not exclude an unfounded allegation here and there. Soviet media actively spread the word, for example, that the U.S. was responsible for the 1978 kidnaping and murder of former Italian Premier Aldo Moro. In addition, events often have to be filtered through an ideological bureaucracy before they are reported. For example, news of the death of former Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin was withheld for 36 hours by TASS and Radio Moscow. Even Soviet citizens heard the news first on Western broadcasts...
...congress could also not fail to display some of the divisions in the Communist world, such as the enduring conflict between the East bloc parties and the autonomy-minded Eurocommunists. Following a running clash between his party and the Kremlin over Afghanistan and the Polish union issue, for example, Italian Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer had conspicuously stayed home...
FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera ∙ A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone ∙ The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Bowen ∙ The Company of Women, Mary Gordon Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙ Other People's Worlds, William Trevor...
Hugon, who hails from Antibes, a city in southern France near the Italian border, is an integral part of the eight-man unit which manages the IL champion aquamen...