Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sing the last scene of La Boheme on the bed next to the dying Mimi? "In that position, my dear fellow," said the redoubtable baronet, "I have performed some of my greatest achievements." And who can top the advice Richard Tucker once gave Franco Corelli, when the golden-calved Italian tenor asked the American for the secret of his way with Puccini? "To sing it right, Franco," said the former Reuben Ticker, "you have to be Jewish." You could look...
...chief supplier of heroin to the U.S. and Europe. Drugs have filled the Sicilian clans' coffers with billions of dollars and have been the focus of Sicilian gang wars that have killed at least 300 since 1981. The new drug Mafia has also gunned down several high-ranking Italian security officials, including General Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the prefect of Palermo who was assassinated in September 1982. Dalla Chiesa's murder resulted in a spate of new laws that led directly to the current trial. Some of those on the losing side of the gang war turned to the police...
Abbado and the London Symphony more than do justice to this underrated composer (Mendelssohn's reputation has still to recover fully from the damage the Nazis did to it), offering crisp, incisive performances. The "Italian" Symphony explodes in a burst of melody, its irresistible opening theme a shout of joy, its finale a whirling saltarello. But Abbado is just as persuasive in the Symphony No. 2, a religious choral work subtitled Hymn of Praise. Although structurally similar to Beethoven's Ninth, Mendelssohn's symphony is its emotional antithesis: calm where Beethoven is uneasy, confident where Beethoven is questioning, sacred where...
...WOMEN are whores," proclaims Oscar the Italian carpenter (Enrico Montsano). This is rather suprising coming from Oscar. He's very left wing, and has always treated his wife (Veronica Lario) like the Madonna. But when Oscar suspects that his wife has been cheating on him, he becomes enraged with her and with womankind in general...
...best to make her new found love impossible. The one real tension in the film is whether anything carnal is going to happen between the two lovers. This tension is dragged out and then off-handedly dismissed. Does she really go back to Oscar in the end? Can an Italian housewife find happiness with an Italian husband? Who knows and, at least in this film's case, who cares...