Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Domino's Pizza, the company that cooked up a $2 billion fast-food dynasty by peddling Italian fare, is again looking to Italy for inspiration. Domino's announced last week that as part of its new headquarters complex near Ann Arbor, Mich., it plans to erect a 30-story tower that will lean to the east at a 15 degree angle, much like the Leaning Tower of Pisa...
...recent years, Stanford has been one of thefirst universities to initiate a "two-tiered"teaching setting at their Italian branch, Patgettsaid
There are other cheap, casual eateries, and many offer local specialties. Among the city's claims to culinary distinction are cheese steaks -- grilled beef slices with cheese topping and fried onions on an Italian roll. The best are at Jim's, a gleaming art deco luncheonette that tops other reputed havens such as Pat's, Geno's and Lee's. Hoagies, the Philadelphia version of Italian hero sandwiches, are also winners...
...that Federal Agent Eliot Ness (Costner) proclaimed against Chicago's racketeers in the waning years of the Volstead Act. Al Capone (De Niro), with the police and politicians in his silk pocket, runs the city, abetted by gun- crazy Frank Nitti (Billy Drago). Ness's "untouchable" aides are an Italian- American sharpshooter (Andy Garcia), a bespectacled accountant (Charles Martin Smith) and an aging cop, Jimmy Malone (Connery). Malone is a father figure, an Obi-Wan Kenobi to Ness's Luke Skywalker, alerting him to the ways of the wicked world. Perhaps Ness becomes too alert. He defeats Capone...
Among the subjects of 1987' s commencement talks: nuclear weapons, civil rights, the man shortage, hugging and Italian restaurants...