Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...residents, not visitors, hotel dining rooms are exempt; restaurant bars and cocktail lounges are also excluded from the ban. "We understand the relationship between alcohol and cigarettes -- we're not out to reform human nature," explains former City Attorney Steven Rood. As for hotels, he notes, "French and Italian movie moguls can't do business without a cigarette in their mouth." Such reasoning does not satisfy restaurant owners. Vito Sasso, proprietor of the romantic Romeo and Juliet, argues that he too has foreign customers, citing one wealthy visitor who orders several $500 bottles of wine for a dinner...
Into this dreary drama, Tina Higgins injects some much needed energy and comic relief in the small role of an Italian waitress. She has a wonderfully expressive face and a fine Italian accent...
...Italian vs. the American Response to the Mafia: A Comparison Between Two Judicial Cultures--Guido Neppi-Modowa. Center for European Studies, Harvard...
Although an Italian, Toscanini was portrayed as embodying the panoply of virtues that Tocqueville, a century before, had labeled as particularly "American": pragmatism, efficiency, and belief in democracy. In addition, Horowitz writes--and this is a fascinating insight--Toscanini seemed to fulfil America's dream of denying the significance of the past, which seemed to dictate that American art would continue to lag behind Europe...
Toscanini seemed to defy history because, in an age when a musician was still weaned largely on the works of countrymen, his repertoire included not only Italian music, but also German and French...