Word: italian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movement was founded in 1986 by Italian journalist Carlo Petrini, spurred into action when a McDonald's invaded Rome's historic Piazza di Spagna. "I was alarmed by the culturally homogenizing nature of fast food," he says. In 1989 Petrini drafted a manifesto, ratified in Paris by 15 countries, deriding "fast life, which disrupts our habits, pervades the privacy of our homes and forces us to eat fast food." According to the manifesto, fast life denies mankind its inalienable right to "sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment." To reclaim both, Slow Food, whose symbol is a snail, promotes taste...
...ideas, her own and the reader's, and allows no response except banging the hands together. Without this mad blaze of confidence, her next novel might have been a hanky dampener. Accordion Crimes traces an old green accordion from hand to calloused hand among turn-of-the-century Italian and German immigrants in New Orleans and the lower Mississippi. Told by Proulx, it makes a wonderfully strong, rowdy book...
Though it would seem to have little in common with bellowing Italian tenors and symphony orchestras, King Kong is, at heart, an opera. A hip-hop opera. An opera for modern audiences. Or should I say postmodern audiences...
...less ambitious commentary on the war than either Spielberg or Benigni's films. He spares the audience a graphic depiction of the horrors of war and avoids moralistic themes to present a personal account of the amusements and petty squabbles of a small group of foreigners on the Italian homefront...
...less ambitious commentary on the war than either Spielberg or Benigni's films. He spares the audience a graphic depiction of the horrors of war and avoids moralistic themes to present a personal account of the amusements and petty squabbles of a small group of foreigners on the Italian homefront...