Word: raviolis
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...little Piero Bilancioni, who sits to his cards with the ancient face of sin itself. Indeed, Director De Sica's imagination is everywhere so vital, his control of it so gracious and exact, that his meaty little street scenes assume a classic form, a flavor rather like Aristophanic ravioli...
...Among them Buitoni Foods, which last week sent President Giovanni Buitoni back to Italy to set up a frozen-food industry. The 129-year-old, world wide Buitoni organization started freezing lasagne, ravioli, macaroni and cheese in the U.S. in 1950, did so well it decided to market them to Italian housewives, using Italy's ice-cream dealers as outlets...
...heap for no apparent reason but his own fat-over 250 lbs. of it, with an undue proportion apparently located in the head. This picture proves that he is still the biggest thing in the cinemusic business: at "singing weight" (240 lbs.), he looks like a colossal ravioli set on toothpicks, and his face, aflame with rich living, has much the appearance of a gigantic red pepper. But the big voice is just as big as ever, and though no better for training, it does not seem to be any worse for the careless wear he gives it. Lanza still...
...Bronxial tubes; and when she screeches Take Back Your Mink ("to from whence it came"), the evening is made. Frank Sinatra, as Nathan Detroit, not only acts as if he can't tell a Greek roll from a bagel; he sings as though his mouth were full of ravioli instead of gefullte fish. Stubby Kaye and B. S. Fully, both from the Broadway cast, suggest best of all the seraphic moldiness of Runyon's ronyons...
...finally softens to surrender. Italy's Rossano Brazzi complements Kate's artistry every step of the way. As a married but amorous art dealer, he plays her lover with wit, affection and-when necessary-a matching anger: "You are like a hungry child who is given ravioli to eat," he cries. " 'No,' you say, 'I want beefsteak.' My dear girl, you are hungry . . . Eat the ravioli...