Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fishmonger Look. At war's end, French couture was in the dangerous doldrums. New York was claiming to have supplanted Paris as the wellspring of fashion; Italian designers were asserting presumptuous claims. Rich Marcel Boussac, France's biggest owner of textile mills, became concerned. He reasoned that the prestige of Paris' couturiers directly affected the sale of textiles produced by his mills. He set out to find a. new designer who could inject fresh vitality into Paris' sluggish salons. Friends sent him Dior...
...claims the largest private clientele in all Paris is sturdy, bristle-haired Pierre Balmain, who is charming in several languages. Balmain numbers among his customers Actresses Vivien Leigh and Marlene Dietrich, many South American millionairesses. Some of his biggest customers are Italian designers, who reproduce his dresses for the Italian market. On Italian designers' claims to rival Paris, he is tart: "Their ambition is to design dinner and cocktail clothes, but their ability is to design sport clothes...
...other offering, an Italian film, Three Forbidden Tales, tells the usual Poignant stories of rape, unrequited and misdirected love, shattered pride, sex, and death in fairly nauseating fashion...
Aside from their esthetic merits, the four stories give heartening evidence that mutiny is in the making aboard Italy's censorship. In 1952, complaining that the neorealist school of moviemakers had formed a gloom brigade that was ruining the foreign market for Italian films, the Italian government forced its state-subsidized movie industry to lower standards and raise skirts. Nevertheless, in Gold of Naples, Director De Sica has managed to say with a smile what he could not have said with a sneer. The four stories are variations on the same theme of human bondage that De Sica develops...
Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life (TIME...