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Old World daughter, New World mother : an education in love & freedom
Combining lived experience with research and reporting on our contemporary work-family dilemmas, Laurino brews an unusual and affirming blend of contemporary and traditional values. No other book has attempted to discuss feminism through the prism of ethnic identity, or to merge the personal and the analytical with such a passionate and intelligent literary voice. Prizing both individual freedom and an Old World in which the dependent young and old are cherished, Laurino makes clear how much the New World offers and how much it has yet to learn.
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WEDDINGS/VOWS; Maria Laurino and Anthony Shorris
Several months (and dates with Mr. [Anthony Shorris]) later, Ms. [Maria Laurino], now 34, left The Voice to become the chief speech writer for Mayor David N. Dinkins, a job she will hold until he leaves office at the end of the month. Both she and Mr. Shorris, now the first deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, described themselves as \"city junkies.\" They look forward to watching unedited mayoral press conferences on WNYC-TV the way other couples look forward to watching \"Seinfeld.\" In fact, their personal lives are so closely tied to city politics that their wedding date was largely determined by voters in the last election. They had planned to marry in front of Mayor Dinkins in June 1994, but when he lost the race they moved the date up to Dec. 11.
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THE ITALIAN AMERICANS
\"The Italian Americans,\" narrated by Stanley Tucci and shown two hours at a time, tells a story that spans from the late 19th century -- when Italian immigrants came to America in a massive wave -- to today. The four chapters are \"La Famiglia (1890 to 1910); \"Becoming Americans\" (1910 to 1930); \"Loyal Americans\" (1930 to 1945); and \"The American Dream\" (1945 to today). Chapter 4 focuses on, among other things, the influence that singers like Tony Bennett, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dion DiMucci and Frankie Valli have had on American music. Also spotlighted is \"the ascendancy of Mario Cuomo and his decision not to run for president,\" [John Maggio] says. \"It's a powerful scene that, I think, is really what people will remember, especially now that he's gone.\"Yet another focus of the final chapter is the Mafia -- the Kefauver Committee, turncoat Joseph Valachi and the making of \"The Godfather.\" It's a story Maggio considered \"really vital\" to tell. Although the PBS series does not include \"a whole 'Sopranos' thing\" -- \"it was one or the other, and we decided to take on 'The Godfather' \" -- he hopes \"The Italian Americans\" will \"be a corrective to that story.\"
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Women of Substance
The stand I took that day will stay with me for the rest of my life. As for Victoria, the young Italian-American woman in [Maria Laurino]'s piece who had the courage to tell her neighbors in Bensonhurst to stop blaming others and examine the situation with a sharper eye, I say, Good on you, girl! You're not alone.
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Chef' offers a taste of the quest for food of perfection
When Mario Cuomo graduated from law school and tied for first place in his class, the dean suggested that he change his name in order to get a job on Wall Street. \"Can you imagine me as Mark Conrad?\" Cuomo asked [Maria Laurino], and then he posed the question that became her book's title, establishing between them a bond of ethnic ambivalence. In the first part of this book, [Michael Ruhlman], who wrote on the same subject in \"The Making of a Chef,\" investigates the grueling certified master chef exam at the Culinary Institute of America (where one participant was berated for his \"knife skills\" after a slice of duck terrine turned up wider at one end than at the other). Part two moves to the kitchen of the personable Michael Symon of Cleveland's Lola Bistro. Part three goes to California's French Laundry, opened by Thomas Keller (who had no formal culinary training) in 1994 and three years later called \"the most exciting restaurant in America\" by Ruth Reichl of the New York Times.
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Unappreciative Immigrants?
[Maria Laurino] bemoans the fact that although [Zoe Baird]'s illegal alien was paid a salary of $250 a week, she had no Social Security, medical coverage or sick leave. However, she was getting $250 cash, which translates roughly to over $400 gross had she been paid on the books. What is also overlooked is the fact that she was given free room and board - which could easily be worth $600-$800 per week! I, as a college graduate, cannot get a job today to pay me that wage.
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FILM; Playing All the Angles
\"Willie and Phil,\" 1980. In this little-known American remake of \"[Jules] and Jim,\" two men try to share one woman without guilt. \"Sleepless in Seattle,\" 1993. Meg Ryan falls in love with Tom Hanks after hearing him on a radio call-in show, and this adorable twosome form the base of the triangle, stranding Meg's fiance at the apex. \"Reality Bites,\" 1994. In a fight to win a confused Winona Ryder, a film producer (Ben Stiller) loses out to a grungy aspiring artist (Ethan Hawke). RIGHT TRIANGLE (one angle is a strong 90-degree corner): One strong character and two weaker angles. \"Body Heat,\" 1981. (At right) An 80's twist in film noir triangles; Kathleen Turner persuades a lawyer ([William Hurt]) to kill her rich husband. The Hurt character goes to jail for the crime while she gets the money and a tan on the beach.
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Maids of Honor
Whenever I hear about all the accomplishments of the media's ideal working mother, Hillary Rodham Clinton, I wonder about the children of Chelsea's nanny, and whether they missed their mother during the week. I am sure that the salary and benefits for Chelsea's nanny were more than adequate, but not all families have the good fortune of having child care underwritten by a successful lawyer's and governor's salaries.
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The Italian Americans
This is not your typical coffee table book, rich in illustrations but thin on facts.
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Beautiful Wasps Having Sex: A Hollywood Novel by Dori Carter (Morrow, $24) Frankie Jordan lives a life on the verge: She's about to turn 40, her husband wants a divorce and she can't seem to finish the script she's working on. Enter Jonathan Prince, 24 and an up-and- coming agent, overconfident and with an Ivy League pedigree - and the only one who seems to recognize the brilliance of her work. But when Jonathan's career begins to soar and Frankie's declines, she learns more than she cares to about back-stabbing, power struggles and the role Jews play in a WASP's world. Carter, a former screenwriter and TV producer, precisely details the extreme measures taken to sell a script, and the savage world that is Hollywood.
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