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LEADER: 03271cam a22003494a 4500
001 2005058243
003 DLC
005 20070410113326.0
008 051220s2006 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2005058243
020 $a0767914392 (alk. paper)
020 $a9780767914390
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm62755668
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050 00 $aDG451$b.S4813 2006
082 00 $a945.093$222
100 1 $aSevergnini, Beppe.
240 10 $aTesta degli italiani.$lEnglish
245 13 $aLa bella figura :$ba field guide to the Italian mind /$cBeppe Severgnini ; translated by Giles Watson.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBroadway Books,$cc2006.
300 $axiv, 217 p. ;$c22 cm.
505 0 $aDay 1: Malpensa -> Milan: The airport, where we discover that Italians prefer exceptions to rules -- The highway, or the psychopathology of the stoplight -- The hotel, where singular people are not content with a double room -- Day 2 & 3: Milan: The restaurant, one way of sitting in judgment -- The store, the field of lost battles -- The nightspot, where foxes turn into peacocks -- The condominium, a vertical space for oblique obsessions -- The eat-in kitchen, the nerve center of domestic counterespionage -- The bedroom, the bathroom, and how hard it is to find space of your own -- Day 4: -> Tuscany: The train, where many talk, few listen, and everyone understands -- The museum, beautiful women on the walls -- Television, where the semi-undressed signorina acquires a cloak of significance -- Day 5: Tuscany: The countryside, where we show that Italians are the world's leading manufacturers of emotions -- The Italian piazza, a tool with more cutting edges than a Swiss-army knife -- The window, framing fantasies that are sometimes cut short by a shutter -- Day 6: Rome: The bank, a confrontation of confidence and cold feet -- The office, the opera house of orderly anarchy -- The shopping mall, a taste of America delivered to your door -- Day 7: Naples: The sidewalk, or on collective individualism -- The automobile, and fumbling on the fold-down seats -- The travel agency, where the nation flexes its flippancy and pampers its patriotism -- Day 8: Sardinia: The waterfront, the convoluted charm of a liquid frontier -- The beach, a bare outline -- The garden, seclusion in bloom -- Day 9: Crema: The barber, the newsstand, and the town as a lifebelt -- The monument. And yet it moves -- School, the workshop where shared memories are made -- Day 10: Crema -> Malpensa, via San Siro: The church, where we will ruminate on the moral menu -- The stadium, notes on social gastroenterology -- The horizon. In other words, give us back Columbus -- Epilogue: A letter from America.
651 0 $aItaly$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aItaly$xSocial life and customs$y1945-
650 0 $aNational characteristics, Italian.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0633/2005058243-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0633/2005058243-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0704/2005058243-s.html