Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Italian-born composer, 75, has long purveyed a brand of derivative, pseudoromantic opera, such as The Consul and The Saint of Bleecker Street, which both somehow won Pulitzer Prizes in the '50s and still cling to life on the edges of repertory. Although it has been years since Menotti has had a hit, his name still means opera to those for whom annual Christmas telecasts of the treacly Amahl and the Night Visitors were a cultural high point. Goya, however, is a new low: a brazen melange of elements from Traviata and Puccini's La Rondine, served up with music...
...longer are the people totally cut off from the outside. Their main exposure to the West comes through tuning in to foreign radio and TV broadcasts. Young people wear blue jeans and Italian sunglasses. As Albanian society grows younger -- the majority of the population is now under 30 -- some social problems, including crime, are on the rise, and there are signs of disaffection with Hoxhaism...
...successive consonants? 4. How many countries does Brazil border?* And lists of products that need inventing, like a device that reminds the forgetful driver in the car ahead that he is still blinking for a turn. For lagniappe, Hodgepodge offers foreign words the English language could use: magari!, Italian for "Would that it were so!"; razliubito, Russian for the feeling one has for someone he once loved but now does not. And some of history's more memorable deathbed utterances: "Either that wallpaper goes or I do" (Oscar Wilde...
...going to pay a heavy price." In Italy, newspapers printed accounts of heavy arms shipments to Iran, prompting questions in Parliament as to why the government had failed to enforce its embargo on such sales. Though the squabble was primarily domestic -- most of the weapons were supposedly sold by Italian arms merchants -- the U.S. came under suspicion too. Rino Formica, Minister of Foreign Trade, grumbled in a newspaper interview that "when one talks of arms sales, one needs also to mention the NATO bases in Italy. We can't control the arms that enter our country directly from these bases...
...their hearts and palates. Two cases in point: Linda Merinoff's The Glorious Noodle -- A Culinary Tour Around the World (Poseidon; $16.95) and Margaret Leibenstein's The Edible Mushroom -- A Gourmet Cook's Guide (Fawcett Columbine; $14.95). Merinoff, a journalist and caterer, is obviously beguiled by all things pasta -- Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Israeli, African, Alsatian or Asian. Her work brims with tempting dumplings, noodles in mild and spicy sauces, one-dish soups and stews bolstered with some form of wheat-, bean- or rice-flour noodles. Lore is easygoing, and recipes are explicit...