Word: pizzeria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skill at twirling and tossing dough ten feet into the air made Pizza Baker Camillo Calogero a consistent crowd pleaser at a Lynbrook, N.Y., pizzeria. Then, one day last September, his neck was broken in an auto accident; he was no longer able to make the flamboyant motions needed to fling high the pizza dough. The 33-year-old father of three children sued for damages. Rejecting a defense claim that pizza can be simply flattened on a table with the hands, and considering other injuries to Calogero, a twelve-man jury awarded him $335,000. At his old salary...
...Cuba were finally close to a formal agreement that will guarantee the "safe and orderly exodus" that the U.S. has been seeking from the first. In Havana, Swiss Ambassador Emil Stadelhofer spent more than seven hours talking to Castro, including one long session in a suburban pizzeria. Stadelhofer then reported that the Cuban dictator had agreed to do it more or less...
...Pizzeria Studio. Nevelson "walls"' might go nicely in certain modern commercial structures, but so far she has refused requests to do office-building lobbies. "Someone once told me, 'Think how many people would see your work in an office building: 100,000 a day.' And I said, look, dear, I am not interested, because those 100,000 people are blind...
Louise Nevelson is an imposing, muscular woman with eyes like augers. Besides the three rooms of golden debris in her house, she maintains two more studios near by-one in a former pizzeria, where she does her "dirty work, my black things," and one a few doors away for her white work. Her material is wood, shaped for utilitarian purposes-and salvaged by her from dumps and antique shops, or donated by friendly driftwood gatherers. For tools she uses an electric band saw, files, and a hammer...
...unidentified brunette actress turns in the only creditable performance in the whole picture, as the pizzeria waitress in New Haven. It's my guess that she has had some experience with the method, and found it easy to follow Gadge's direction. Anyway, she's only in view for ten minutes or so, which hardly makes it worth-while to pay $1.80 and stand in line...