Word: neapolitans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neapolitan" spirit of the show appears, not in high religious painting or in official portraiture, but in the "minor" and decorative work: the bright frothing of shells and red coral up the side of a Capodimonte porcelain ewer, for instance, or the gross theatrical energy of the silver-gilt devotional statues. Perhaps the most striking of these is a bust of St. Irene protecting Naples from lightning. The city is held up by a cherub, and the saint holds out her right palm: a gilt thunderbolt is stuck in it. Wonderwoman does it again. The Neapolitans liked their religion brassy...
...famed for tripping the light fantastic. On the other hand, the Rockefellers have never been known to disapprove of profitability, and the intimate (4,000-sq.-ft.) Rainbow Grill and its bigger sister, the Rainbow Room (7,000 sq. ft.), are doing better than ever under their present tenants, Neapolitan Tony May and Dublin-born Brian Daly...
Like so many comics of his time, James Francis Durante grew up on New York City's teeming Lower East Side and left school early. From his Neapolitan mother, he inherited his legendary nose. From his French-Italian father, a barber, he got the encouragement to study the piano. By age 17, "Ragtime Jimmy" was performing in saloons from Coney Island to Chinatown, with a singing waiter named Eddie Cantor...