Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Certainly the Stark, a lightly armed escort vessel, had an impressive array of aerial defenses. The ship's Mk 92 fire-control system can guide an antiaircraft missile to intercept incoming aircraft up to 90 miles away. Closer in, its Italian-made OTO gun can fire 3-in. antiaircraft shells at a rate of 90 a minute, dealing sequentially with as many as three incoming intruders at a range of up to twelve miles. Rockets that spray radar- attracting aluminum chaff can divert incoming missiles, and the frigate's electronic defenses can deceive attackers by producing fake radar images...
...ultimately to be judged from the floor of the Sistine Chapel, as originally viewed by Michelangelo's contemporaries, with the full stretch of the ceiling bathed in natural light from the upper windows. So viewed, the frescoes are clear, strong and wonderfully harmonious -- fully in keeping with the central Italian fresco tradition...
...jumped to the fore of today's fashion scene. Dressed up in a variety of guises -- bubbled, tubed, tiered and flounced -- the thoroughly modern mini is competing hard with the billowy, prodigious shin- length skirts of the past few years. "Suddenly everybody is talking and worrying about it," says Italian Couturier Valentino. "That means the mini is here to stay...
...arrangement dates back to 1962, when Gaudio and Valli, who came from working-class Italian neighborhoods in the Bronx and Newark, respectively, were only dreaming of hitting it big. At the time, Valli was a barber, Gaudio worked in a printing plant, and the Four Seasons was an unknown group playing on weekends in small clubs and bowling alleys. Sitting one evening in Valli's apartment in a Newark low-income housing project, the two friends decided to be partners forever and share their earnings equally. Recalls Gaudio: "We said, 'Neither one of us knows where we're going...
...attention for a Jew who left the faith to join the Catholic Church?" asks Marcel Poorthuis, a spokesman for the Dutch Catholic Council for Israel, of the Stein beatification. "A lack of sensitivity," declares Tullia Zevi, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities. Asks James Raphael Baaden, an American Jew who lives in London and is writing a book about Edith Stein: How can she be beatified as a Christian martyr if she died...