Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marilyn Monroe overdeveloped Hollywood's fetish for sultriness, and Audrey Hepburn reversed the trend, substituting for the revered sweater a combination of spriteliness and naivete. And now Anna Magnani, the Italian actress starring in Jean Renoir's The Golden Coach, has presented moviegoers with a new idea of feminine acting. Instead of emphasizing the body, the voice, or even the personality, she relies wholly on her face to express the emotion of each dramatic situation...
...Massachusetts, lanky Leverett Saltonstall faced trouble from an eager challenger, Democratic State Treasurer Foster Furcolo, but came away an easy winner. Furcolo did well in Boston's Italian neighborhoods, but dropped much of the normally Democratic Irish vote...
Last week, soon after the curtain fell for the last time on his act, Grock and his devoted Italian wife headed for retirement and a 50-room villa on the Italian Riviera. He had earned his rest without question, "but who," asked one of the million-odd friends he had left behind, "will ever be able to make us laugh like that again...
...mirror nothing. Her face was not distorted at all; it was in remarkable repose considering how she died. But the wounds on her forehead and cheeks were too numerous and too gaudy, like the wounds of St. Sebastian in the cheap plaster statues seen in the churches of little Italian towns. Marilyn's slayer was an extravagant slayer, wasteful of blows...
...hatted, diamond-sprinkled audience enveloped Soprano Callas in a hailstorm of applause. To land such a diva was a major operatic coup for Chicago. Maria had left her native Manhattan to live in Greece when she was 13, by 1948 was engaged by La Scala. Married to an Italian millionaire (building materials), she has unabashedly let it be known that she would not sing in a company where another artist was higher paid. The Metropolitan Opera, with its $1,000-a-performance limit, cannot afford her. But two young Chicago music lovers decided that Chicago had to have...