Word: sorrento
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Linotypist for this Issue: Pat Sorrento Walter Collins
...from pocket to pocket as legal tender. Several big department stores offer scrip instead of change, and grocers often make change in the form of potatoes or pieces of chocolate. Milan's San Siro race track pays off in scrip-good only at the track-and customers at Sorrento's Fauno Bar have been reduced to writing checks so as to tip the waiters. Inevitably, there have been floods of funny money: in Bologna, one trail of fake cashier's checks led to a ring of clumsy counterfeiters who made the mistake of misspelling the bank...
...deep in politics: setting up capitalist pigeons for Lenin to pluck, polemicizing both for and against the Bolsheviks. During the Leninist purges following the October Revolution, Gorky used his special relationship with Lenin to save many writers' lives. Finally breaking with the Bolsheviks, he exiled himself in Sorrento. There, in a drafty villa with a fine view of Vesuvius, he swilled coffee-and-raw-eggs and completed his best work: the autobiographical accounts of his early life and his reminiscences of Tolstoy and Chekhov...
...himself. Many of his avid devotees find the film heretical, and Bogart himself is said not to have liked it much, but it's an indisputably clever bit of whimsey. Written by Truman Capote and John Huston and filmed by Huston's own company on the Gulf Sorrento in Southern Italy, the whole production was a casual vacation exercise for Huston and some of his actor-friends who happened to be in the area at the time...
...Heart Alone; by the time he sailed into the last bars he was standing in a lavender spot, stage center, teeth gleaming to the glow of applause. After that, in a handsome dramatic-tenor voice, Stuarti worked through such standards as If Ever I Would Leave You, Arrivederci, Roma, Sorrento, Three Coins in the Fountain. The evening ended with a tearful Danny...