Word: sicilian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...field's clear superpowers. They've each found a niche within the pizza world to call their own, and it's not hard to figure out why. I've spent entire pockets of procrastination in fruitless attempts to declare an outright preference: one has tomato-basil Sicilian slices, the other, calzones and the sesame-seed edge. One has the atmosphere of an authentic Italian pizzeria, the other, the feel of the quaint college town I've never known. The duality is uncanny...
...make people decide how to spend their disposable income," he tells me. But he's always found that the best way to do that is to concentrate on "what goes on inside these four walls." He acknowledges, almost whispering, that "People tell me, 'they do Sicilian at, at, what's-it-called, at Pinocchio's, you should do Sicilian too.' But I'd rather worry about what happens in here...
...late 1984, after spending two years in the Navy and eight years in Someville, the Sicilian native borrowed some money and bought a languishing raccoon-infested house on Harvard Street...
...Mastroianni was also a clown, yelping like a hyena in heat when Sophia Loren (his partner in 13 films) strips for him in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963). As the Sicilian aristocrat in Pietro Germi's wonderfully malicious Divorce Italian Style (1962), he is a creature of tics and slouches, plotting his wife's death and stalking the seraphic Stefania Sandrelli with the gait of a mopey Groucho. He made informed fun not only of these familiar Italian comic figures but also of his own star machismo. At the end of a guest stint on Laugh-In, TV's vaudeville...
...hardly anyone expected was Accordion Crimes (Scribner; 381 pages; $25), a book that is, in at least one crucial respect, the antithesis of The Shipping News. Accordion Crimes has no central character, unless that term is stretched to include a 19-button green accordion that is brought by its Sicilian maker to New Orleans in the early 1890s. This instrument spends roughly the next 100 years--and the entire novel--drifting haphazardly into the possession of different people or, more precisely, members of different immigrant groups struggling to establish themselves in the U.S. After the accordion maker (who, somewhat portentously...