Word: pasta
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...Callas and Tebaldi are little more than memories in Italy. Along with the younger corps of fine singers, they have been lured away by bigger money and better working conditions in the U.S. and elsewhere. What is left is hardly satisfying to the discriminating Italians. "They want the real pasta asciutta," says Tenor Mario del Monaco, "not ersatz spaghetti...
...unappetizing picture of a lump of pasta entitled. "A Typical main dish for lunch," represented the article's most convincing complaint...
...subjects through what a Brescia critic once described as "the rustic and cantankerous dialect of his own district." The results were often warm and whimsical. Windows and archways open onto rocky landscapes typical of the region. His Saviour is not the emaciated, sublimely anguished figure of his colleagues, but pasta-fed and plump, his saints more spirited than spiritual. His chubby cherubs often pout like naughty children; in St. Anthony of Padua they hold up a garland from a lemon tree which then, as now, grew on the shores of nearby Lake Garda...
First they assassinated the Renault, brutally sacrificing it with ax and pitchfork. Then a girl in a white brassiere and red bikini climbed onto the car's crushed roof, where a scrawny youth massaged her with wads of spaghetti. The girl plucked pasta from her shining body and flipped it at the audience; the audience...
...mother should be transparent, a ruin of beauty. Maureen Stapleton is as solid as a mountain of pasta; one cannot see through her to the mythic past. There is bougainvillaea, and weeping willow, and a century of wounded Southern pride in the prose arias that Tennessee Williams gave the role; all one hears in Miss Stapleton's voice is the jagged, chop-chop talk of a tenement mother. The garrulity is present but not the gallantry...