Word: italian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such a one is the film under consideration -- a Mafia comedy. Already the mind contracts with diminished expectations! Non-Italian actors gesturing rambunctiously, speaking with cotton candy in their mouths, plotting elaborate revenge with dim-bulbed resources. Cast Peter Falk as Dino Capisco, a dapper ) don just sprung from Sing Sing. Give him a score to settle with his weaselly partner Carmine Tarantino (Michael V. Gazzo) and a slick, Rudolph Giuliani- style D.A. (Bob Gunton) with an eye to nailing Dino's hide on the front page. Saddle him with a dog-stealing wife (Brenda Vaccaro) and a devoted...
...shopping mall, favors $64 pink L.A. Gear athletic shoes with Western-style, imitation-silver buckles. Arthur the accountant, who bicycles ten miles before picking up his calculator in the morning, wears TC Lite, Nike's $85 cycling model. His weekend tennis partner rushes the net in Reebok's $80 Italian-made Cosenza tennis shoes, with the brand name discreetly scrawled in the corner...
...explore some unlikely avenues of musical inspiration. "There are eight really strong personalities in the band," MacGowan comments. "Everybody writes." Jem Finer, who plays banjo, sax and hurdy-gurdy and who pulled the Pogues together in the early days, has written, with the aid of a "very old Italian phrase book," an aria. "We've rehearsed it," he reveals, "but it wasn't recorded for the album. Various factions thought it was pushing things a bit far. But opera is one of our secret desires." Unlike British soldiers on a pub crawl, opera fans have been known to throw objects...
Whyte also claims that gentrification, one of the symbols of renewed urban vitality, is not the social evil for displaced people it has been made out to be. The real culprit, he contends, is the government decision not to build more housing. "People think you have a nice Italian family, and then you have these peace-eating liberals who push them out. Well, that's not the way it works," Whyte argues. "By and large, many steps have been taking place before the so-called gentrifiers move in. They do not buy from the nice ethnic family and kick them...
...many foreign capitals, official reaction to Bush's new ambassadors is diplomatically neutral. But privately, there is plenty of hand wringing and even some scorn. Secchia, says a senior Italian official, is "a very nice man, but he doesn't know anything." The Bahamas, says a source close to the government, tried to dissuade the U.S. from naming Hecht as Ambassador, but now that he has been selected "there ain't nothing much you can do, just grin and bear it." And although Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke went out of his way to praise nominee Sembler, his choice...