Word: neapolitan
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...money and run up the biggest civic debt in Italian history ($160 million), giving his fellow townsmen spaghetti, circuses, repaved streets, and a first-class soccer team. (Mayor Lauro cheerfully forked over $200,000 to sign up one Swedish soccer star for Naples.) The Neapolitan crowds love him; opposition politicians consider him a gold-plated clown, or, in the words of one, stricken by "dynamic senility...
...Racketeer is about a Neapolitan mountebank (Toto) who lives a dog's life at the heels of un guappo (Pasquale Cennamo)-a big vegetable in the Neapolitan underworld. When the hood has a heart attack...
Like a thousand other villages in Italy's Mezzogiorno (midday, i.e., the south), Castelpoto (pop. 2,800) was bone-poor and bright Red. A medieval huddle of stone houses high in the Neapolitan Apennines, it had no sewage system, no running water, no schoolhouse, no movie, and almost no electricity. On chilly winter evenings peasant women lit bundles of twigs on their mud floors to warm their chimneyless, smoke-blackened houses. When party organizers moved in after the war, Communism took Castelpoto with a rush-even to the local branch of Catholic Action, whose leader, Costanzo Savoia, became mayor...
...Happy, Captain?" At noon Coppola invited me to an enormous lunch of spaghetti, steak, and plenty of strong Neapolitan wine, and unburdened himself: "If the Egyptians have enough men like this pilot, they can easily run the canal." Shiaty was making his third full-length trip in five days. "It's really killing, this work, but we have to do it," he said, nibbling at a sandwich. "It's my country. Wouldn't you do the same?" I asked Wilters, the German, for his opinion. "I better not talk politics," he said...
...Naples, in the late weekday afternoon, a strange un-Neapolitan procession suddenly throbs to life. Hundreds of American cars, driven by buoyant, carefree American Navymen or their wives, begin their winding way through the ancient streets, far out to rented country villas or to the shiny new apartment buildings that crown the surrounding hills. Soon the flowered apartment terraces ring with the pleasant tinkle of ice cubes and buzz to the languid chitchat of the cocktail hour...