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THERE is Buggin' Out, a radically militant Black activist who directs his energy not towards constructive change, but at a pointless effort to get pictures of Blacks hung on the all-Italian Wall of Fame in a local pizzeria...
...starts calmly enough, as if the people on Lee's Stuyvesant Avenue are the cheerful graduating class of Sesame Street. Da Mayor (Ossie Davis) spreads inebriated wisdom, Uncle Remus-style. Sal (Danny Aiello), the Italian American who runs the corner pizzeria, brags that the locals "grew up on my food." His delivery boy, Mookie (Lee), doles out advice while dodging duties to his girlfriend and their child. Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn) keeps the block pulsing to the rap song, Fight the Power, that bleats from his boom box. By day's end, though, the neighborhood has erupted. Sal and Raheem...
...Harvard Sucks."--Yale President Benno C. Schmidt, from a table-top in in Naples Pizzeria in New Haven, Conn...
...arrived at Pizzeria Uno's Sunflower Cafe (22 JFK St.), with its relatively mellow, boring atmosphere. We had often stuffed our faces with pizza upstairs, but we had never ventured into the depths of the building, because we knew the bar there carded. But tonight, with legal driver's licenses in hand, we went downstairs...
...Soviets has spawned consumer-oriented ventures as well. For the past two weeks, Muscovites have been lining up to buy slices of the first American pizza in the Soviet Union, for 1.25 rubles ($2.10) each at the AstroPizza truck that makes stops around the city. The 18-ft. mobile pizzeria is operated under a joint venture of New Jersey-based Roma Food Enterprises (1987 sales: $100 million) and the City of Moscow...