Word: italianize
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...consumer America is different from political America. In consumer America, diversity of preference is not just tolerated. It is mandatory. The market has created reasons for us to be finicky and dissatisfied about anything - cable TV, pasta sauce, running shoes, yoga programs. It depends on you to like zesty Italian and me to like chipotle ranch and someone else to like low-sodium raspberry honey mustard. Through niche media, niche foods and niche hobbies, we fashion niche lives. We are the America of the iPod ads - stark, black silhouettes tethered by our brilliant white earbuds, rocking out passionately and alone...
...also having some Sopranos cast members on. Some Italian Americans find that show offensive...
...here it often distracts from a serious tale of three wronged women. Apart from the titular woman in white, who is justly terrified of dastardly Sir Percival Glyde, there are the plucky Marian and her sister Laura, who are abused by the very same Glyde and his flamboyant Italian accomplice, Count Fosco. Among the country mansions and shadowy villages of Hampshire and Cumberland, the three find their fates terrifyingly entwined. Where Lloyd Webber scores is with the score. It would have been easy for the composer to fall back on a lush, serve-all orchestral cushion. But to his credit...
...regular audits to see that they meet international standards of proper hours, pay, union rights and worker safety as established by Social Accountability International (SAI), a New York City-based corporate responsibility group. Gucci will be one of more than 40 companies in Tuscany to sign on after the Italian region earmarked €25 million to help local firms pay for the SAI certification process. "The [independent] factories we certify are always asking why the companies they sell to don't follow the same standards," says Desta Raines, an SAI manager. "It's great news." - By Jeff Israely Excess Baggage...
...made for this kind of stuff. It wasn’t designed for the literary allusions that sportswriters dream of, wasn’t tailor-made for the delightfully violent allusions to hell and Infernos. The words, instead, read plain. Simple. Conspicuously, they lack that loud, Italian vivacity—that zest which leaps off the tongue with a vigor so perfectly becoming of a punishing linebacker...