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Three days before his oral argument, Cucinotta is in the kitchen of his suburban home, stirring spaghetti sauce and expounding on the U.S.'s adversary system of justice. "People like me are the champions of liberty," he says. "Think if I lose. Does it mean that the Government can willy-nilly threaten harsher sanctions if a defendant doesn't drop the attorney of her choice? Think of the Spanish Inquisition! Or the Tower of London! Not everybody in there was guilty. Or the Willingboro Ten!" His wife Santa gently corrects him: "It's the Wilmington...
Runners-up for Miss Tacky, 1980: Elizabeth Taylor ("Not one movie star has worse taste"); Suzanne Somers (a fashion plate of "recycled spaghetti") and Bo Derek ("a butterfly wearing her cocoon...
...noisy inferno at Westinghouse's lamp factory in Bloomfield, N.J., a Unimate 2015G robot performs a process called "swaging." This is somewhat like making spaghetti, but it is done with 21-in. rods of yellow tungsten, destined to become light-bulb filaments. The robot lifts them off a conveyor belt and sticks them into a blazing furnace (3,200° F), then into a swaging machine that stretches the rods until they have grown to 37 in. in length and shrunk to exactly .467 in. in diameter. Three workers, each of whom cost the company $20,000 per year...
...with the adaptation of traditional recipes to contemporary methods and lifestyles: using an electric pasta machine; preparing a ragú in 45 minutes instead of the conventional four hours. For lagniappe, the Romagnolis offer some interesting modifications of traditional formulas, such as leg of lamb with gin and lemon spaghetti. A handy companion book is Teresa Gilardi Candler's Vegetables the Italian Way (McGraw-Hill; $12.95). Candler, the daughter of a restaurant family in Turin, brings the U.S. a choice, non-cultist collection of vegetable recipes that include such rare surprises as artichoke bread, zucchini chocolate cake and artichokes...
Despite the occasional bursts of glory, most of the counselors say the experience has left a bittersweet taste. "One mother made us spaghetti; one said thank you; and one asked us to come back," Parrette said, "but most of the parents saw us as babysitters. It was discouraging, but then we were there for the kids. We wanted to say to them, 'You can be like your brother, your counselor, or the man at the aquarium.' Maybe we can't see the effects now, but in ten years when one of the kids comes back from the University of Michigan...