Word: marsala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dorsey raided other bands so mercilessly that one rival, Joe Marsala, wired him: "How about giving me a job in your band so I can play with mine?" Egos clashed within the ranks-Drummer Rich jealously shattered Sinatra's romantic numbers with noisy rim shots until Sinatra exploded and tossed a full water pitcher at him. The touchiest ego of all belonged to the quick-tempered, perfectionist leader. Arrogant, yet gregarious, shrewd at finance, yet at times childlike and yearning for a less complicated life, Dorsey was one of the most powerful and enigmatic personalities...
...Funds. As late as 1954, the government was still reimbursing Sicilians for damage done to their ancestors' property during Garibaldi's historic 1860 campaign to unify Italy. Even Garibaldi has been kept waiting. Italy's Parliament in 1910 passed a law to erect his statue in Marsala, Sicily, but the technicalities took so long that inflation has made the original appropriation wildly inadequate. Having missed the 50th anniversary, Parliament decided in 1960 to try for the 100th. It passed a new law appropriating 90 million lire, but the design chosen required 200 million lire. The Ministry...
...posthumous masterpiece, which is arguably the finest Italian novel of the century, Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa, treats of these matters with an irony that seems half wisdom and half love, and in a style as rich and dark and subtle as old Marsala. In this film, Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers) preserves the author's tone as well as his tale, and in the course of three occasionally tedious hours develops a composite portrait of a time, a place and a man that finally emerges as a splendid set piece of cinema...
...vermouth, ¼ soda water, over ice in an old-fashioned glass). The typical Keys dinner contains 1,000 calories, only 20% of which come from fats of any kind, 5% from saturated fats. A sample menu: pasta al brodo (turkey broth with noodles), veal scallopine a la Marsala, fresh green beans, homemade Italian bread (no margarine or butter), cookies, a tossed salad (dressed with tarragon vinegar and corn oil), espresso coffee and fruit...
...boom is everywhere. San Francisco now has Earl ("Fatha") Hines, Kid Ory and Marty Marsala. Chicago has Art Hodes, Bill Reinhardt, Franz Jackson and his Dixieland All-Stars, a popular and authentic group, the average age of whose members is 65. In New Orleans the big names are Pete Fountain, Al Hirt, Mike Lala. And almost anywhere the Dukes of Dixieland can be heard. "The customers," explains one jazz critic, "like to get loaded and imitate trombones...