Word: italianize
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What's in a name? For many, the indication that they are descendants of craftsmen: smiths, coopers, millers, weavers. Primo Levi, 67, is an Italian Jew whose surname suggests ties to those members of the Levite tribe who were entrusted with guarding the sacred tabernacle. Not ritual priests but deacons, Levites were workers with practical tasks to perform. Appropriately, Levi came to writing through chemistry. For 30 years he worked for a Turin paint manufacturer. Before that he was the unwilling employee of the Nazis, who recruited him at Auschwitz for his technical skills. While millions died for what they...
Although Sandburg speaks fluent Italian, knows a number of regional Venetian and Alpine dialects, and can read Latin, Spanish, French and German, he says that certain aspects of fieldwork--especially communicating with natives and gaining their trust--can be extremely difficult...
...illustrate his explanation of his project in the Italian highlands, he pulled a full-color map out from a drawer to pinpoint particular locations. Togive a more concrete sense of what the smallItalian village he lived in looked like, he showedphotographs and postcards of the area, of hisfriends and the farmhouse in which he lived...
...Baryshnikov did not find that hard to play. And when they brought the proposal to Producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, it took about five minutes to get a yes. The cast is filled with dancers from the American Ballet Theatre, of which Baryshnikov is artistic director. The lovely Italian-born ballerina Alessandra Ferri will dance the lead. Says Baryshnikov: "This picture gives me what may be my last chance to film a big classical ballet within a dramatic movie. And with a lovely cast and director too!" But he also talks of hanging up his slippers in the next...
...weapon, apparently, is too small for congressional scrutiny. Take the Army's venerable Colt .45 handgun, widely used since 1911. Searching for a modernized replacement, the Army settled on the 9-mm Italian-made Beretta. It did so after extensively testing other handguns, including those made by Smith & Wesson, based in Springfield, Mass. One Smith & Wesson model broke down before firing 5,000 rounds, while another cracked at 7,000. By contrast, the Beretta triggered 8,800 rounds without a mishap. After the Army signed a contract for 300,000 Berettas, which would be produced at the company's Accokeek...