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^agea me BATTALION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1978 Qb cJ INTERSTATE TTl'a/fC-i ' 84A-67U & 446-1151“ UNIVERSITY square shopping center niTT THEATRf MOUP SALES TK«ITS will M ACCIHED CINEMA OPEN 6:45 SHOWS 7:20 9:30 ADULT $3.00 CHILD $1.50 OF LAURA MARS OPENS was the Deltas 6:45 against the rules.. SHOWS the rules lost! NATIONAL LAMPMBTi 0 Two refrigerators and no car Family life in Citta Sant’angelo United Press International CITTA SANT’ANGELO, Italy — *T heard on television that Ameri cans use these for beating their hus bands,” chuckled Cristina Di Zio, 38, as she raised a rolling pin in the meticulously organized kitchen where she divides her day into batches of spaghetti production. “You can keep homemade pasta for a couple of days but it’s best when you eat it fresh,” she said, spilling a generous pile of flour onto the table. Scooping out a small crater in the flour, she broke in two eggs, mixed it up, rolled it out and began slicing the flat dough into thin strips of fet- tucini. Meals are the focal points of the Di Zio family and all six members of the household are always present for the three-course lunches and din ners. The television goes on as the table is set and blares on throughout the meal, competing with the animated conversations of Cristina’s two sons, Fabrizio, 15, and Silvano, 13. Fabrizio is gobbling his lunch as he’s in a rush to get back to work at his first summer job — as a waiter in the hotel restaurant down the street. He is exceptionally proud of the job and it takes a great deal of prob ing before he admits that he is paid in tips only and can count on no more than 4,000 lire (about $5) at “In a little town like this, you don’t need to gossip to know what everyone else is doing and thinking.” Christina said. the end of his 11-hour workday. “Italians don’t tip very much and we don’t get any tourists way up here,” he shrugs, glum but stoic. His mother puts her foot down when he offers to demonstrate his newly acquired skill at carrying six plates of spaghetti at one time. Silvano is also in a hurry — he’s going fishing for eel in the lake at the foot of this picturesque hill town that commands a view of the Adria tic sea on one side and the Apennine Mountains on the other. “Just make sure they’re dead by the time you get them home,” Cris tina scolds affectionately. “I don’t want eels slithering all over my kitchen sink like last week.” As the boys race out the door, Cristina’s husband Cenzino, 46, looks disconsolately down at his empty plate. “They said after the first few days you wouldn’t feel it anymore, but I’ve been on this diet a month and I’m still always hungry,” he groaned. “He has high cholesterol and the doctor put him on a diet that only allows 70 grams of spaghetti (about 2-% ounces) a day,” Cristina whis pered as she cleared away the dis hes. “I think that’s too much so I only give him 50 grams.” Once she’s seen Cenzino off to his job as town accountant, Cristina spends the best part of her morning shopping for the fresh foods she buys every day despite her two re frigerators. At the meat shop she flirts with her butcher to ensure a good cut and at the vegetable stand she squeezes every tomato in the basket before choosing three. ‘T’ve known him since he was bom,” she said as the stand owner tried to hide his winces behind a smile. “Everybody knows every body in this town — there are only about 7,000 people here including the farmers who live outside.” Very few people in Citta Sant’angelo have a telephone and Cristina is not one of them. But she rarely gets together during the day with her women friends for coffee and a chat. “I just don’t have time for that kind of thing,” she says. “Besides, in a little town like this you don’t need to gossip to know what everyone else is doing and thinking.” The Di Zios own their own home, a four-bedroom apartment in a re novated 17th-century building near the town cathedral. They moved in seven years ago after Cenzino sold the nearby farm where he and his six brothers and sisters had been born. “My father bought the land with money he earned as an immigrant The Nonna has finally ceded control of the household to Cris tina - hut only after several major battles and clan confer ences. MANOR EAST MALL Texas at Villa Marla M-F 10-8:30 Sat. 10-6 779-8718 PRESERVATION HALL eH JAZZ BAND TAMU MSC TOWN HALL SPECIAL ATTRACTION Gen. Public Student Tickets & Info: MSC Box Office 845-2916 October 11, 1978 Rudder Auditorium 8:15 p.m. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY MSC OPAS presents HOUSTON BALLET performing THE SLEEPING BEAUTY “Ben Stevenson's very exacting orthodox version has an infectious vi vacity” “Altogether a 'Beauty' that the Company can be proud of.” — James Kennedy “The Guardian” worker in Canada,” Cenzino explained. “After he died tenant farmers worked the land for 50 per cent of the crop. “Then the Communists came and they raised it to 60 percent of the crop and then they wanted to raise it again and it just wasn’t worth it any more. So we sold the old house and bought this one. ” In the living room, the shine on the marble chip floors attests to the amount of time Cristina spends cleaning and polishing. A Venetian glass clown and other souvenirs of family trips are dis played on the massive bookcase- liquor cabinet that covers one wall. The liquor cabinet is filled with gift bottles that are only opened for company, and the bookcase is stacked with gold-embossed, bound-back copies of Cenzino’s favorite magazine, “Illustrated His tory” — the Italian equivalent of “National Geographic. ” The biggest bedroom, with its own panoramic terrace, is the do main of Cenzino’s 81-year-old mother Maria, known as Tl| Nonna. The reigning matriarch oftl* family since her husband died than 30 years ago, The Nonna ^ finally ceded control of the honn. hold to Cristina — but only several major battles and clan ct, ferences. These days, The Nonna spends most of her time in church or in It. town’s public gardens chattingwift her cronies — among whom she bis considerable stature for having mat. ried her youngest daughter to tie brother of the cathedral’s priest. The priest, Don Guido, oftea stops by after dinner for coffee and the discussions in the lively dialed of the Abruzzi region usually re- volve around the political issues o( the day. “I vote the cross,” announces He Nonna when asked her opinion “The cross” is the symbol of the Vatican-backed, ruling Christian Democratic Party. Cristina says she doesn’t have time to bother with political non sense and just goes along with Cen zino when it’s time to vote. The sixth member of the family, Uncle Giv, 54, communicates hii very strong opinions in a sign lan guage the whole village under stands. Uncle Gigino has been a deaf-mute since a bout of meningitis when he was a child. “Most Italians buy on credil and go into debt to take fancy vacations,' Cenzino said. “W< don’t do either - we don’t wen own a car. Cenzino insists that while his fam ily shares an income and lifestyle with the average Italian, “we are not typical.” “Most Italians buy on credit and go into debt to take fancy vaca tions,” he said. “We don’t do either — we don’t even own a car.” “In fact, I hate cars,” he added “Now what other Italian could say that?” )a or Wednesday, October 18, 1978 8:15 p.m. Rudder Auditorium Ticket Prices: General Public - $7.95, $6.45, $5.25 A&M Student/Date-$6.50, $5.35, $4.40 Tickets and information - MSC Box Office at 845-2916 At Last Year’s Price, You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. Each Daily Special Only $1.69 Plus Tax. ‘ Open Daily’’ Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.—4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. MONDAY EVENING SPECIAL Salisbury Steak with Mushroom Gravy Whipped Potatoes Your Choice of One Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea TUESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Mexican Fiesta Dinner Two Cheese and Onion Enchiladas w/chili Mexican Rice Patio Style Pinto Beans Tostadas Coffee or Tea One Corn Bread and Butter WEDNESDAY EVENING SPECIAL Chicken Fried Steak w/cream Gravy Whipped Potatoes and Choice of one other Vegetable Roll or Corn Bread and Butter Coffee or Tea MSC AGGIE CINEMA A love story that is always new. 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