Word: barzini
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). In "Once Upon a Wall," Luigi Barzini reports on the 1966 flood damage to the Florence frescoes and the restoration work that has been done...
...nation's squabbling politicians. Indeed, in another, less patient land, the kind of chaos and confusion, disillusion and dismay gripping Italy would long since have provoked the army to take over. But appearances are deceiving in Italy, a country with its own peculiar laws of logic. As Luigi Barzini wrote in The Italians: "They rage against their fate today as they have always done. They have been on the verge of revolution for the last hundred and sixty odd years . . . The unsolved problems pile up and inevitably produce catastrophes at regular intervals. The Italians always see the next...
...lawyer would ever try to make a case for the Mafia? Luigi Barzini, for one. The Mafia "gives the Sicilians some sort of order in a country governed by foreign oppressors," said the Italian author-journalist in a discussion with students at Los Angeles' Occidental College. "The Mafia man uses the family and will not do degenerate things-he'll have nothing to do with heroin or prostitution." All of which leads Barzini to believe that Lucky Luciano, deported from the U.S. in 1946 as an undesirable alien who dabbled in dames, was never really a Mafia...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Italians, their manners and morals, vices and virtues, are examined by Journalist, Legislator and Author Luigi Barzini, who visits an Italian wedding, funeral, opera and parade. Repeat...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Italians," a reconnaissance of the Italian national character-all the genius, excesses and exaggerations of a people who as Italian Author Luigi Barzini, narrator of the show, puts it, "live in the perpetual baroque...