Word: neapolitan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Tears, belly laughs and earthy morality are shrewdly blended by Director Vittorio De Sica, turning for his theme to the 20-year sex battle between a Neapolitan pastryman (Marcello Mastroianni) and a triumphant tart (Sophia Loren...
Regrettably, visitors often lose more than their minds. A charming but light-fingered people, Neapolitans relieve their guests of everything from cars and clothes to wallets and women. The police labor mightily but in vain. Last week 110 men accused of stealing hundreds of cars languished in jail as they awaited trial. Even in their absence, the theft of cars continues at a brisk thousand a month. One two-car Neapolitan family had its Fiat stolen in the morning, its brand-new Alfa Romeo in the afternoon. A Roman visitor found his car where he had parked it the night...
Sold Soldier. Neapolitan eyes glisten whenever the citizens recall the happy, happy days of the mid-1940s. An estimated one-third of the millions of tons of U.S. supplies landed...
Naples vanished into thin air. It was then that the street-wise Neapolitan children called scugnizzi (spinning tops) began their practice of buying and selling American G.I.s. One would pick up a soldier, promise him everything, and lead him into back streets. Another kid might buy the prospect for 300 lire, and he was thus passed from hand to hand until an older scugnizzo decided it was time to act. The G.I. was first made muscio (dead drunk), and once he had passed out, his clothes were literally sold off his back, beginning with shoes and ending with underwear. That...
Rooted in Neapolitan lore is the tale of the greatest coup of all, said to have taken place in 1944. As the story goes, ten U.S. Liberty ships arrived in the harbor on a Monday, and by Friday there were only nine. Neapolitans say the missing ship was stealthily sailed out of the port and run aground on the coast ten miles to the south. The cargo was removed and the ship dismantled, piece by piece. American naval officers shrug off the story as apocryphal, but, say Neapolitans, how could any government admit it? "When that news swept the city...