Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, possible that Giordano's Bakery, an 8-ft. by 10-ft. shop in a depopulated section of Newark, does not make the best Italian bread in the world. Possibly it is only the best in the New World. Possibly -- and I say this to appease those of you in places like Cincinnati or Phoenix -- possibly it is merely the best in New Jersey. But this isn't a position you would want to argue on Seventh Avenue, where the people hurrying between the shop and their double-parked cars tend to be staunch Giordano's loyalists...
...This is the best, you know what I'm saying?" says a customer who has traveled to the ends of the earth, as far as Brick Town and Closter, N.J., in search of the perfect Italian bread. "I like it for sandwiches. Especially with pepper and eggs." Another customer says he's been to Italy six times, but this bread is better. Giordano's bread is the best, even when stale, says a woman in a mink-paw coat and a new Volvo. She likes to grind it up for stuffed artichokes...
...Sunday morning, the bakers work in ankle-deep drifts of cornmeal, wielding wooden peel sticks to retrieve loaves six at a time from the back corners of the ovens. The crew is polyglot and pan-ethnic. Yolanda, a Puerto Rican, says she is a "born-again Italian." When Carlos, who is tending the 260 loaves in the brick oven, is asked where he comes from, he looks blank. Johnnie-Mo, a bona fide Italian American who grew up around the corner, comes over to translate. He puts his face close, concentrates, then shouts, "Town! In Peru! Newark, Elizabeth, Kearny! Your...
...posse" comes in. Moral fiber might be enough to carry the day against frontier bandits. But in urbanized America, where crime is mechanized, industrialized and partially subsidized by government, it needs a modest organization to back its play: the nerveless trigger finger of George Stone (Andy Garcia), like Capone, Italian; the accounting genius of wimpy-looking, stouthearted Oscar Wallace (Charles Martin Smith); and above all, the mentoring heart and long memory of the Irish cop, Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery). He is a weary, steady man, very clearly seen by an actor whose every gesture is wryly informed by the humorous...
...more intriguing features of Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost (openness) is the willingness of the Kremlin leader to submit himself to the occasional foreign press interview. Last week Gorbachev held a lengthy question-and-answer session with L'Unita, the daily newspaper of the Italian Communist Party, in which he not only talked about international affairs but offered a rare glimpse into his personal interests...