Word: sicilianism
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SEDUCED AND ABANDONED. Italian Director Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style) again turns Sicilian social codes inside out in this tragicomedy about the violent aftermath of a provincial maiden's misstep...
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED. A young girl's dishonor sets off a sunny Sicilian nightmare in Director Pietro Germi's savage tragicomedy, which is less warm but no less wicked than his memorable Divorce-Italian Style...
Above all, the campaign style brings home again the ex-Governor's Italian origins. He chatters in the language effortlessly, whether praising the bambinos of a young immigrant mother or joking lustily with a Sicilian metal-worker. This week, as he forayed the factory districts of Lawrence and Lowell, he spouted "cara mia's" with increasing frequency, erasing the forbidding image of Republicanism and becoming just plain "John...
...this question, as every well-trained scriptwriter knows, there are four correct replies: 1) Allied commandos and/or Yugoslav partisans; 2) Sophia Loren disguised as a sack of Sicilian melons; 3) The Thing; 4) a gruesome crew of master criminals who have all been promised pardon if they will undertake a fantastically dangerous mission to knock the hit out of Hitler...
...baked Sicily is a poor and promise-hungry land whose chief exports are citrus fruit and talent. Armed with native Sicilian shrewdness and the desire to get ahead, thousands of its sons have slipped into the mainstream of Italian business. Few of them have had more spectacular success than Milan Financier Michele Sindona, who founded and heads a corporate complex of manufacturing firms in nine countries and real estate firms in five. While many Italian businessmen are nervously retrenching in the face of rising costs and tightened credits, Sindona, 44, is moving ahead as if the economy were still...