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...revised standard version. "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt," for example, has become "Why doesn't this flesh, this heavy carcass of meat, dissolve?" The play is done in Italian in an almost corner-of-the-mouth modern idiom, with the gravediggers speaking in hoodsy Neapolitan accents and Hamlet's pentametric arias flatted with words like "procrastination" and "bureaucracy...
EDWARD LANING-Griffin, 611 Madison Ave. at 58th St. Forty-six paintings and drawings, mostly Italian in theme, open this new gallery. Included is an oil called Sanctuario, a spooky look at a Neapolitan side-street shrine. Through...
Kind & Gentle. To his neighbors in Atlantic Highlands, N.J., the quiet suburban town where he lived for some 30 years and raised his two children, Genovese seemed a "kind and gentle man." But according to Joe Valachi, the underworld canary who sang for the Senate's McClellan committee, Neapolitan-born Racketeer Genovese, 65, is the "boss of all bosses." He arrived, Valachi explained, by a straightforward tactic: he had his rivals murdered...
...enjoy it thoroughly. Bronzed from a District of Columbia jail sun lamp and sucking a juice-filled plastic lemon to soothe his sore throat, he mumbled a litany of remembered violence on the sidewalks of New York in the '30s. He described the bloody revolution among rival Neapolitan and Sicilian Cosa Nostra families in the New York-New Jersey area that took 60-odd lives with stiletto and chopper, involved intricate double and triple crosses and led to the ascendancy of Vito Genovese as the Mafia's "boss of bosses...
Medardo Rosso was a rebel. A shaggy, red-bearded bohemian, he called Greek and Roman sculpture "nothing but paperweights." The curly beard of Michelangelo's Moses was "Neapolitan spaghetti" to him. While studying at the Brera Academy in Milan, he punched a fellow student and was expelled. He took haven in Paris' Montmartre district in the days of Degas, Lautrec and Rodin. What did he think about Rodin, his senior by nearly 18 years? "Rosso loves Rosso," was his cool reply...