Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mosca's. August is vacation month, so delegates will alas miss a sui generis Creole-Italian cuisine in a no-frills roadhouse about 30 minutes from the French Quarter. Classics include cracked crab marinated in Italian vegetable pickles; oysters baked with garlic, parsley and bread crumbs; barbecued shrimp heady with rosemary; hand-rolled spaghetti with butter, olive oil and garlic; and homemade fennel-sweet Italian sausage...
Seven months ago, a court in Palermo, Sicily, jailed 338 mafiosi in the biggest trial of its kind in Italian history. Last month, however, eight Sicilian magistrates who have been leading the crackdown requested transfers; they charged that through "omissions and inertia" the government was retreating from the war against organized crime. Among the frustrated judges was Giovanni Falcone, 49, the celebrated Mafia-buster who worked on the Palermo case, as well as the Pizza Connection trial in New York City. Said Minister of Justice Giuliano Vassalli: "The Mafia can hardly fail to exploit this disagreeable episode...
...most of the voices raised against the film belong to people who have not yet seen it. Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli called the movie "damaging to the image of Christ. He cannot be made the object of low fantasies." Fundamentalist Leader Jerry Falwell called for a boycott against MCA, Universal's parent company; all MCA products, which include Grosset & Dunlap publishers, Spencer Gifts and Motown Records; and any theater that shows the film. Said Falwell: "Neither the label 'fiction' nor the First Amendment gives Universal the right to libel, slander and ridicule the most central figure in world history...
...Italian police last week began investigating rumors that the statue was taken from an illegal excavation in Sicily. Getty officials countered that they had attempted to check the same rumors last year -- to no avail. The case grew hotter when Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, claimed that the statue had been taken from the Sicily site to Geneva, then sold to the Getty by an English dealer. Museum officials called Hoving's allegations "purely speculative...
...Mexico Senator is a respected lawmaker who could counter Bentsen in the Southwest. As a Catholic and Italian American, he could help in the bid for urban ethnics. "We'd love to have a guy with a vowel at the end of his name," says one Bush aide. But he is not a true Reaganaut: as Budget % Committee chairman, he struggled with the Administration, urging tax and budget prudence...