Word: neapolitan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marital status, adulterous in the eyes of Italian law, still weighs heavily on Sophia Loren. When asked what she wished on her gravestone, she replied simply: "Here lies Sophia Ponti." But the Neapolitan beauty is still a long way from R.I.P., and on her 29th birthday, troubles momentarily retreated. Husband Carlo presented her with a lima-bean-sized emerald ring, and Sophia purred: "It's great to be a woman...
...datorium. Some vestiges of Merola's Neapolitan hand still persist in the company's top-heavy Italian repertoire. Last week, Adler opened the new season with a week of pure paesani, starting with Aïda - as the company has done so often that a local critic named the War Memorial Opera House the Aïdatorium. But the new season also includes Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Strauss's Capriccio, Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades - all operas the Met audience will...
...perspective is exactly what Durant lacks. Thus he can declare that "the greatest Italian painters were now in Naples, everything flourished-music, art, literature, politics, drama, hunger, murder, and always the gay, furious, melodious pursuit of feminine curves by agitated men." But he never seems aware that the "great" Neapolitan painters were at best secondary talents, and that the true center of painting had shifted elsewhere-to The Nether lands and France...
Honesty and balance distinguish The Four Days of Naples from dozens of mediocre predecessors with similar plots. The film does not pretend that a latter-day Spartacus rallied the Italians around an American flag, or that a massed charge of Neapolitan housewives armed with brooms broke the nerve of veteran troops. The resistance forces use modern weapons, look scared, and get shot in large numbers. They will rise up spontaneously and fight without organization. The struggle is so makeshift that indignant residents often ask the street-fighters to take their battles elsewhere. Only the occasional reappearance of the same characters...
...Four Days of Naples. On Sept. 8, 1943, the day Badoglio surrendered to Eisenhower, the lid of a manhole lifted hesitantly in a Neapolitan alley and a draft dodger squinted at the unaccustomed sunlight. "La 'uerr' ê finood'!" the mob above him bellowed in delirium. The war was over for Sicily, si. But for Naples it was far from over. On Sept. 12, the Panzers rumbled into town as the Italian garrison stumbled off in all directions. Then flying squads of German soldiers burst into the Vomero, the city's principal slum, and gun-butted...