Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...parties at his brick house, which overlooked a duck pond and a statue of Buddha. Twice a day he weighed himself to make sure he stayed at 174 Ibs., but he rarely had to diet. He once explained: "My cravings are not for Big Macs, but for low-calorie Italian white truffles...
...veteran foreign correspondent himself, Bonfante found his empathy for diplomats growing stronger as he wrote the story. The Italian-born son of a distinguished Princeton University linguistics professor, Bonfante briefly considered a diplomatic career before graduating from Columbia College but decided instead to enter Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. After seven years on foreign assignment for TIME he has become closely acquainted with the symbiotic arrangements that often develop between correspondents and foreign service officers. "They both must report on what is going on, and they invariably turn to each other for help," says Bonfante, whose last foreign...
...diplomatic practice. But it was not unique. When mobs sacked the U.S. embassy in Tripoli last year, Washington strongly accused Libyan authorities of allowing it. "Civilized countries have no possibility of retaliation, because to arrest the envoy of an offending power in return is alien to our concepts," Italian Diplomat Ducci complains. "Why do we then continue to offer hostages to imams and to fortune?" Enrico Jacchia, a noted Italian political scientist, is somewhat more philosophical: "We assumed that the Western principle of diplomatic immunity could be applied everywhere in the Third World. In other words we wanted to export...
...sense of what was going on." Finally the six were chosen: Remak Ramsay to play the stuffy lawyer and Linda Atkinson for his wife, who always had a cause like saving Grand Central Terminal from the developers; Michael Ayr as the unbusinesslike architect and Jill Eikenberry as his aristocratic Italian wife; Luis Avalos for a comical Latin bartender and Evelyn Mercado as the maid he lusted after...
What this show presents, therefore, is something more than a Thoroughbred stable: it is a cross-section view of the growth of one of the fundamental visual images of Western culture. One can only admire the elegance, tact and precision with which the Met and the Italian scholars involved in this delectable project have mounted it. -Robert Hughes