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Word: raffaella (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...best crowd-pleasing bits fall to Sinatra. His serio-comic masquerade as a Nazi becomes more than a stunt when, speaking German with eyes, hands, and shrugged shoulders, he fakes a conversation with a Gestapo man who has spied his American watch. Inevitably, the tedeschi leave a voluptuous collaborator (Raffaella Carra) reclining in the caboose. Sinatra spurns her advances, and when she tries to escape, he regretfully mows her down, simultaneously thumbing his nose at his own public image and giving this rolling-stock melodrama at least one swift, strong, indisputable moment of truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Back to the Front | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

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