Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aroused peasants had made their point. The Italian government promised to buy $160,000 worth of potatoes at fair prices, and the Naples city government offered to let the farmers peddle their crops on the city streets without paying vendors' taxes...
...month a U.S. Immigration Service expulsion order, but he apparently reckons that his lawyers' maneuverings will win him at least two more years in his beach house. The onetime dictator described a pleasant exile: swimming, archery, rowing, a few games now and then of dominoes and boccie (Italian bowling), even a foray to Manhattan with wife and daughter to see My Fair Lady...
...Milan last fall, Kalamazoo-born Conductor Thomas Schippers discovered an opera score dedicated to Queen Margherita * of Italy and tied up in purple string. In Spoleto last week, at the opening of Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds, he unwrapped his find before a capacity audience. Italian critics promptly hailed the long-forgotten work as one of the finest creations of Composer Gaetano Donizetti...
Hailed at first as a way to bring the Bible closer to the people, Vignal's La Bibbia soon encountered more trials than Job. The Italian Rabbinical Council denounced La Bibbia as "sacrilege"; Milan's Roman Catholic Cardinal Montini withdrew the nihil obstat of the church. Sales slumped, and ugly rumors grew that Vignal's crew of actors, who posed for the crude Biblical scenes, lived private lives of less than Biblical probity...
...home brightened with a portrait of Susan and her brother painted by a family friend, Diego Rivera, and other baubles to match. From her mother, Mexican Actress Lupita Tovar, she inherited liquid, tip-tilted eyes of striking beauty. As a Chinese girl on TV (Schlitz Playhouse), an Italian girl in To Hell and Back, a neurotic mulatto in Imitation of Life, she began her multicolored career as one of the most versatile young actresses in town. Her latest picture: Walt Disney's The Big Fisherman, in which she again plays an exotic part-a young Judean girl...