Word: nonna
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...currently littering the language was this one: things happen for a reason. But it turns out they do. Next to my own mother, Grace Costanza Nuzzo Lopez, the best Italian cook in the world is Maurizio's mother Concetta. Two or three mornings a week, this 70-year-old nonna makes a batch of meatballs at home, and one of her brood shuttles them into the restaurant as if transporting gold bullion...
...Soviet soldiers march into a Ukrainian village and, at their leader's heartless command, shoot down a deserter. Just another businesslike day in the life of Commissar Klavdia Vavilova (Nonna Mordukova). But even in a revolution that boasts of sexual equality, women will get pregnant. Vavilova must bear her child in the hovel of a Jewish tinsmith (Rolan Bykov) and his family. Their enforced intimacy sparks a cultural exchange: the commissar becomes feminized, and the tinsmith's wife (Raisa Nedashkovskaya) becomes a bit of a feminist. Outside, though, the Jew's children are taunted and tortured in a kind...
Some Argentines even reacted to the financial crisis with humor. The owners of one Buenos Aires restaurant, La Nonna Inmaculata, papered its walls with old pesos. Manager Jose de la Iglesia thinks the new decor will attract a nostalgic crowd...
...complete cast follows: Nonna Marjorie Jones Santo Philip Holmes 24 Benedetto Doris Holman Mrs. Armoroso Doris Holman Mrs. Maglione Mrs. Richard W. Hall Officer Shaughnessy W. E. Stilwell '25 Mr. Gilpatrick Edward Goodnow Rosa Doris Sanger Mr. Longo C. A. Rollins 2G. Michele Donald Keyes '25 Miss Rice Augusta Macready Tony Joseph Curtis Mr. Armoroso Harold Bates Dr. Solomon E. L. Feeney...
...cast follows: Nonna, Philip Holmes '24 Bendetto, Albert Ward Mrs. Armoroso, Doris Holman Mrs. Maglione, Mrs. Richard W. Hall Officer Shaughnessy, W. E. Stilwell '25 Mr. Gilpatrick, Edward Goodnow Rosa, Doris Sanger Mr. Longo, C. A. Rollins 2G. Michele, Donald Keyes '25 Miss Rice, Augusta Macready Tony, Joseph Curtin Mr. Armoroso, Harold Bates Dr. Solomon, E. L. Feeney...
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