Word: neapolitan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seven Beauties is a knockabout mockery of a cherished notion: that just to go on drawing breath is worth any sacrifice, a goal beyond any scruple. This is certainly an idea to which Pasqualino Frafuso clings with all the fervor in his Neapolitan soul. Nicknamed "Seven Beauties," in ironic allusion to his seven lumpish sisters, Pasqualino struts and flirts for all the women in Naples and looks for "respect" from the local...
...scene looks like something out of The Godfather. A bearded Neapolitan and four unsmiling associates alight from a private jet, pile into a black limousine, and head for the office of a prominent editor. They take him for a ride to a local Italian restaurant, where much intense talk and spirited gesticulating ensue. A few hours later, the visitors fly off again in their plane...
...steel guard rail. Both kidnapers and kidnaped staggered out. Although one gunman pointed a pistol at D'Angerio and demanded that he follow along, the prince trotted the other way. With a thoroughly modern sense of noblesse oblige, he told newsmen later, "I uttered a rude word in Neapolitan and made an internationally understood gesture with my right arm before disappearing into the fog." The kidnapers were not so lucky. One of them left his wallet and identification in the wrecked car, which the police hope will lead to the capture of the whole bunch...
...platonic admirer. The real culprit? Are you ready? A plate of macaroni alla siciliana. Three plates, to be exact. Peppino gobbled them down at his daughter-in-law's house and had the effrontery to praise her cooking effusively, to Rosa's mortification. After some mutual Neapolitan hysterics, the pair heals this terrible rift...
...spring season's biggest sensation - over, under, beside, beneath, across, atop and flat on his back upon the Broadway stage. Tall and lanky, he seems endowed with a flamingo's limbs - concave knees; one-legged, plumb-line balance; flapping, winglike arms. Playing the duplicitous Neapolitan servant Scapino involves at least as much acrobatics as acting. At one point he keels over from the edge of a 10-ft. platform, grabs onto a hanging rope just before his feet leave the edge, and continues his dialogue suspended in perfect parallel to the floor, belly up and legs languidly crossed...