Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Slush Lamps. Atmosphere is another Sabatini attraction. From a mind crammed with historical minutiae he fans a rich dust of authenticity over his scenes. In The Black Swan and The Sea Hawk, when a sailing ship fires off a broadside, Sabatini draws on his vast vocabulary of sailor latin to inform the reader that a battery of sakers on the gun deck of a galleass is bombarding a galliot with langrel that has collapsed its topgallants and smashed a few slush lamps. He is just as sure-footed ashore. When Sabatini finishes describing Captain Blood's hangout, the pirate...
Instead, during the 15 years of our own national existence, we in Tanzania have witnessed American military power being used in an attempt to crush the national liberation struggles of Viet Nam and Cambodia. In some Latin American countries we have seen American economic power being used to frustrate the democratic will of the people about their own form of government. We have felt the effects of America's direct and indirect, but very powerful, support for the racist and colonialist forces of southern Africa. And we have seen American power time and again being used to fight freedom...
...Olympics are the exclusive turf-and track, pool and arena-of ABC. The Montreal Games will be ABC's sixth Olympics of the past eight. For the rights to beam the competition into the U.S. and to provide a "visual feed" to Latin America, ABC paid the Olympic organizing committee (COJO) $25 million. To produce a U.S.-oriented version of the Games-through its own staff and technical facilities-will cost ABC another $10 million. But don't fret for ABC's exchequer; at $72,000 a minute, sponsors-the three biggest are Sears, Schlitz and Chevrolet...
...countries the right to sexual happiness has been fully sanctioned, but not here. Our own culture has not begun to deal with it." Caletti, who is married and has two children, puts much of the blame for the country's sexual debility on the overrated Italian male. "The Latin lover comes out of this pretty well beaten up," he says. "He is a bluff. In addition to his wife, a husband wants to possess a steady mistress and a few casual lovers too. The male is cursory and pluralistic. He is not interested in the quality so much...
...Veneto region. "In the Veneto there is much more sexual freedom than in Sicily or Sardinia," she points out. "It is as though Kinsey had conducted his national study only in New York." But Parca and many other women agree with Caletti's debunking of the Latin lover myth. Parca characterized Italian men in her book The Sultans, published eleven years ago, as selfish, insensitive oafs. Now engaged in preparing a new edition of the book, she says that she has found nothing to warrant a change in that judgment. "It is still piratical behavior, even among...