Word: sicilianism
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...paralyzing one side of his lip, chin and tongue. Though he is a colorfully articulate speaker, Stallone must carefully pick his way through sentences. Says he: "I've got what you'd call a Mafioso voice, and I'm self-conscious about it." Father Frank, a Sicilian immigrant, moved the family to Silver Springs, Md., and opened a beauty shop. His mother Jacqueline, a former "Long Stem Rose" chorine in a Billy Rose revue, started her own business, a workout salon. The family exercise, however, was social climbing. It left a bitter taste. "My father wanted...
...seven-tiered Sicilian brain so that when they said A to him, he knew right away that he should read it as Z but would always stand ready to switch it to the real meaning, inside the real meaning of the false meaning, which he would read as M." Pop is Angelo Partanna, consigliere to the nation's most puissant Mafia family. His son Charley is underboss and chief enforcer for the family, a geratic Brooklyn Mob headed by Corrado Prizzi, 84. Charley, the anti-hero of Prizzi's Honor, is somewhat deficient in the paternal paranoia that...
Charley is No. 5 in the hierarchy, and there is seemingly nothing to block his ascent-until he falls heel over head in love with a semigorgeous broad named Irene Walker. To the hulking bachelor hoodlum, she is "a classic, like the Truman win over Dewey." Irene is not Sicilian, but a Pole from Los Angeles who is semimarried to a Jew; she is also a freelance assassin who has shot one man for the Prizzis and, on the side, scammed them for $360 ($360? The other 000 is always omitted in family conversation, supposedly "to confuse the tourists"). Novelist...
DIED. Frank ("Three Fingers") Coppola, 82, multimillionaire Mafia capo who was linked to murder, prostitution, gambling and drugs; of a stroke; in Aprilia, near Rome. Once a partner of "Lucky" Luciano in Detroit, the Sicilian-born Mafioso was deported as an illegal alien in 1948. In Italy he became a don of international drug trafficking. Coppola fought his deportation from the U.S., insisting that he was actually a "nice guy." U.S. Senator John McClellan disagreed, however, saying: "Even though he only has three fingers, they are involved in everything...
...fasoi (bean soup with gnocchi and prosciutto) through bigoli all'anitra (Venetian wheat pasta with poached duck) and baked spaghetti pie with cinnamon-flavored cream and eggs for dessert. Pasta cookbooks are churned out with dizzying regularity. Mostly written by Italians, they are generally excellent; for instance, Sicilian-descended Carlo Middione's new Pasta! Cooking It, Loving It (Irena Chalmers Cookbooks). Accessories for making pasta proliferate: drying machines, ravioli crimpers, cutting wheels, rolling pins, tomato presses, electric cheese graters and dies to make dozens of special shapes like creste di galli (cockscombs) and capelli di preti (small priests...