Word: sicilianism
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...third child of Sicilian immigrants, Bono never graduated from high school nor did he ever receive formal musical training. But, in the late '50s, he began hawking his songs to Sunset Boulevard record labels between making stops as a butcher's delivery boy. His big break came when he landed a job as an assistant to superstar record producer Phil Spector. It was during his tenure with Spector that Bono learned to hone his craft as a writer and arranger. In 1964 the Searchers recorded what is considered one of his best songs, Needles and Pins. During that period...
...patrons. The verb form is to noch--usage: It was Chinese deli night at the dining hall so around midnight I went noching (rhymes with toking). Noch's features a variety of subs and pasta in addition to pizza, but the real attraction is the square-cut, thick-doughed Sicilian-style slices. According to Manager Adam DiCenso, Sicilian slices of pepperoni have been the most popular item for years, but the newer tomato basil topping (my personal choice) is also doing well. Plain pizza is $1.50, Sicilian...
...Seigel shot, ending an era of mafia power that only the Corliones could revive. In Puzio's restive family we see all that Lansky and his pals could never capture: the tranquility of a mob network secure in its proficiency, efficiently camouflaging day to day bloodbaths with unequaled Sicilian suavity. As any half-decent concilliari would surely note, the movie's theme--family and duty--is the Sicilian equivalent of the American dream, bound up in that inimitable opening line: "I believe in America. America has made me what I am today...
...field's clear superpowers. They've each found a niche within the pizza world to call their own, and it's not hard to figure out why. I've spent entire pockets of procrastination in fruitless attempts to declare an outright preference: one has tomato-basil Sicilian slices, the other, calzones and the sesame-seed edge. One has the atmosphere of an authentic Italian pizzeria, the other, the feel of the quaint college town I've never known. The duality is uncanny...
...make people decide how to spend their disposable income," he tells me. But he's always found that the best way to do that is to concentrate on "what goes on inside these four walls." He acknowledges, almost whispering, that "People tell me, 'they do Sicilian at, at, what's-it-called, at Pinocchio's, you should do Sicilian too.' But I'd rather worry about what happens in here...