Word: sicilianism
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Alfano's Pizza and Spaghetti Restaurant in tiny Oregon, Ill. (pop. 3,800), was a classic mom-and-pop eatery. The friendly Sicilian owner, Pietro ("Pete") Alfano, often tied on an apron and made the pizza himself. Townsfolk were understandably shocked last week when federal authorities arrested Pete, calling him a "main contact point in the United States" for an international drug-trafficking ring run by one of New York City's major Mafia families...
...alleged masterminds of the drug ring lived in different countries. Gaetano Badalamenti, arrested in Madrid last week, was the Sicilian connection. Badalamenti was described as one of the heads of the worldwide Mafia. His "big cheese" in the U.S. was Salvatore Catalano, purportedly a leader of the Bonanno crime family...
Last week, testifying in a raspy Sicilian accent, Conforte said that in December 1978 he paid Claiborne $30,000 to help quash grand jury subpoenas for two of his prostitutes who had 5 been called as witnesses in a probe of voter fraud. Three months later, Conforte said, he again met with Claiborne, who suggested that he could get a federal appeals court to overturn Conforte's tax conviction. Conforte testified that the judge told him, "We need $100,000 to get things started." With that, Conforte produced $55,000 in bills and stuffed them in Claiborne...
...tests of a great city is its receptivity to the foreigner, its openness to the stranger with unfamiliar ideas. That made Paris what it was and New York what it is. Raphael, appearing in some scrofulous Sicilian hill town in the cinquecento, would hardly have altered the history of cart decoration. Appearing in Rome, he changed the history of art. Something of this kind-the transformation that only urban cultures can produce, sparked by an apparently small event-had occurred in Naples...
...wiry Sicilian American, he had stepped out of Phillips Academy and Princeton into immediate notoriety through his "Black paintings" of 1958-60, symmetrical arrays of black stripes on a white ground. Though he had an unshakable faith in the idea that abstract painting was the mainstream of modern art, he kept on the move. Well before the prestige of minimalism as a historic style began to ebb, Stella was recomplicating his paintings, leading them with a dazzling display of neon, pearly and metallic colors, scribbling over the once sober surfaces with oil stick and grease pencil, and replacing their geometrical...