Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle-class Capri does its best to live up to the reputation of the island that takes its name from the goats that used to sport on its hillside. Women visitors to Capri outnumber men 4 to 1. ("That figure," noted an Italian paper tartly last week, "does not include members of the third sex.") Drawn by the abundance of femininity, Italian males drift from one pretty visitor to another, always careful to move on before it comes time to pay the bill. "These men flap around like butterflies," lamented a French girl. "In France we are delicate and have...
...weeks as a "scapegoat." The problem is that, inside, the two men are basically different--the Briton kind and thoughtful, the Count cruel and selfish. Yet, despite protestations, the Count's entire household refuses to believe the two are not the same man; and only the Count's lovely Italian mistress (Nicole Maurey) senses a difference. Thus the two roles demand the subtlest of distinctions and preclude all obvious ones--a challenge Guinness meets masterfully...
...presence to fore-shadow the grandeur of her deed at the climax. Why anyone saw fit to dye Miss Rawlin's honest red hair to black, however, as well as fitting her out in a costume and coiffure that belong to the Vassar cocktail hour rather than an innocent Italian peasant girl--is quite beyond me; one hopes that it will be soon corrected...
...Manhattan sophisticates (mostly from west of the Hudson), The Four Seasons up to now has been just another baroque concerto by Italian Composer Antonio Vivaldi, or a topflight restaurant patronized by Americans in Munich, Germany. This week Manhattanites and visitors to Manhattan got the offer of an even more baroque outlet. From now on, if money, showmanship, and just plain spectacle count for anything. The Four Seasons will be synonymous with the world's costliest restaurant ($4.5 million to build), which swung open its Park Avenue doors this week on the ground floor of the bronzed Seagram Building...
...turquoise in the desert, or to make a casual bet that she could go around the world on ?5. She won that bet. On the trip she dined with Lord Kitchener in a dahabeah on the Nile, made an expedition by elephant through the Ceylonese jungle, married an Italian count in Japan, found herself pregnant, and back in England, got news that her husband was dead...