Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...positive signs" in the attempts to free the hostages, but near week's end Iran's newly elected President, Abolhassan Banisadr, also issued the most encouraging statement to come from a responsible Iranian official since the militants seized the Americans last Nov. 4. Said he, in an Italian television network interview: "There is a proposal on President Carter's desk now which, if he accepts, can lead to the release of the hostages in 48 hours...
...When Ted Kennedy first ran for the Senate in 1962, Italian-born Vinnie DeRienzo, now 56, eagerly handed out campaign leaflets at the clothing factory in East Boston where he has been a pattern cutter for 18 years. DeRienzo was delighted when the Senator announced that he would seek the presidency. Said he: "I wasn't happy with Carter. He's let inflation get the best of us. And the more it costs me, the more I have to work." To cut energy costs, DeRienzo and his wife Mary have turned down the thermostat at their ranch-style...
...that "the sprayed chemical is nontoxic to human or animal life." But Agent Orange was contaminated by a byproduct of the manufacturing process, dioxin, which is perhaps the most toxic synthetic chemical known. When a few pounds of it were released into the air by an explosion at an Italian chemical plant in 1976, more than 700 people in the town of Seveso were evacuated. Some of them have never been allowed to return to their homes, which are still contaminated. About 350 lbs. of dioxin were contained in the 11 million gal. of the herbicide sprayed on Viet...
...tone of the picture veers from the grotesque (eating binges whenever Dom DeLuise, as the title heavyweight, becomes anxious or unhappy) to the hysterical (members of his excitably loving Italian family yelling at him whenever he gorges himself). There is also a sentimental love story: the hero falls for a sweet, dumbish blond (Candice Azzara) who runs the gift shop around the corner from his card shop. As for the gags, they are mindlessly farcical: an examination at the diet doctor's features standard jokes about hospital gowns and a nicotine-addicted physician who coughs in the patient...
...Arms, and the inevitable cockiness that precedes the regiment's first bloodying. That occurs during the amphibious landing in Sicily, part of the Allies' first massive invasion of Europe in 1943. Taking the island is costly but only a down payment on the rest of the Italian campaign...