Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Especially a mystery, one would think, to Michael. Stelian was the only other Greek boy who had grown up in the same circumstances. Michael had no Greek kids in the neighborhood, peers or rivals, to compare himself with -- as Mario Cuomo, for instance, had a swarm of Italian friends to gauge himself against. In Michael's formative early years, there was not only monos mou but also oi thyo mas ("we two"). When Stelian, the soft one, went under, Michael, the quicker one, must have made something of that. But we cannot know what -- he is quietly respectful...
...those eager to stay close to the convention area, one option is Bugatti in the Omni Hotel, which offers decent, if second-rate, Italian food in a comfortable setting. Far better is Nikolai's Roof, atop the Atlanta Hilton. Despite an annoying 6:30 and 9:30 seating policy and an altogether corny menu recitation, the sparkling little supper club offers winy hot borscht, herbed rack of lamb, roasted guinea hen in a lemony olive sauce and a gently sweet banana-almond souffle. Asked why there was not more Russian food on the menu, the waiter answered, "The Czar Nikolai...
...usually gives rise to plenty of speech and complaint -- the Venice Biennale is always fun to visit. It also has an edge on all other festivals of contemporary art, like the more didactic Documenta at Kassel, West Germany. For when you have done the central show in the Italian pavilion in the public gardens, and sampled all the national pavilions from the U.S.'s to Yugoslavia's, and sated whatever appetite you may have for the installation pieces of Aperto 88, the section for artists under 40 that stretches like a deconstructionist via crucis through the long Piranesian gloom...
...Accademia di Belli Arti, in protest against the commodification of culture (how many of them, one wonders, are art dealers today?). In panic, the Biennale decided in 1972 to jettison the prize system and turn itself into a noncompetitive symposium built around a historical or theme show in the Italian pavilion. Racked by ideological discord and enfeebled by the organizational skills of Italian intellectuals, the Biennale went into a tailspin for a number of years...
Caprio says one of the convention highlights for him came when he met New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo. Cuomo, surrounded by supporters and reporters, turned to greet Caprio when the delegate shouted an affectionate Italian word for "friend." Caprio says the governor "turned around instinctively" and visited with him for a few moments...