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Monkeying around with foam is fun, but a simple fl oral pattern follows.

FANCY A LATTE? Between your daily cappuccino and those macchiatos you’ve been downing during sleep droughts, you’ve totally mastered Italian co! ee-speak without even trying. So here’s the almost-as-e! ortless next step: la" e art! Seriously. Rather than let the baristas have all the fun with foam, become your own Michelangelo of the mug—just by turning the page. BY JUDITH PEÑA

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1. Pour a dollop of frothed milk in the center of your latte, then add two concentric chocolate-sauce circles.

2. Drag a skewer or toothpick from four sides of the cup to the center, wiping the point clean after you

make each line.

3. Reverse! Drag the skewer out from the center toward the edges

(between the original lines).

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the mouth over this easy co! ee topper.

When Vito Corleone is shot in an assassination attempt just outside his

office in The Godfather, look for two citrus cameos: The first occurs just before the shooting, when he’s seen buying two oranges from a market stand. As he’s running from the gunmen, he topples a basket of the fruit.

Also in the first film, Don Vito dies shortly after slicing an orange and flashing an

orange-peel grin at his grandson. (That smile was improvised by Marlon Brando to get the child actor to look scared.) Don Vito keeps the “scary” peel in his mouth and playfully chases the boy, collapsing moments later.

In The Godfather Part III, a helicopter raid disrupts a Commission meeting —a summit

of the heads of the five families —in Atlantic City. As the helicopter starts to shake the room, an orange rolls across the table. Vincent and Michael Corleone are lucky to make it out alive.

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Michael Corleone eats an orange—with the skin on—while discussing Hyman Roth’s

whereabouts and planning his murder with Tom in The Godfather Part II. Michael ends with the famous line, “If history has taught us anything, it’s that you can kill anyone.”

Oranges appear more than 20 times in The Godfather trilogy during scenes of danger or death. Here’s a sampler pla" er, in honor of the # lm’s 40th anniversary this year.BY ALLYSON DICKMAN

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Juicy debate! So, was the orange symbolism actually intentional? Set designer Dean Tavoularis has said he used the fruit to brighten up dark scenes. Francis Ford Coppola admitted that their appearance was accidental in the first film, but a deliberate addition thereafter once he realized their prominence.