Word: caging
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...marches slowly along the battlements. The huge corpse on the leading bier seems to exude dark passion even in death. The gloom lifts as the second bier passes, revealing a woman whose beauty shows through her burial shroud. At a distance, vengeful soldiers thrust a man into an iron cage and hoist him to the top of a tower for the birds to abuse...
...Othello, with the joint funeral of the Moor and Desdemona, and the imaginative execution of Iago. The entire film is prefigured by this non-Shakespearean opening sequence: the sense of evil leading to tragic death, the theme of innocent beauty wronged, the symbolic imprisonment of man in a cage of passion...
...like the self-conscious symbols of La Dolce Vita. Othello overhears Iago's baiting of Cassio through a barred casement, he looks in upon Desdemona through her leaded window, and finds out the greatness of his guilt behind a barred gate in the castle. His only escape from the cage of his passion is suicide, and one he has stabbed himself with a dagger, he leaves his prison, free to die in the bedroom beside his wife...
Connubial Cage. When the apes want to study the mating habits of humans, Mérou winds up sharing a cell with Nova, a delectable dish who looks like Brigitte Bardot but who troubles Mérou because her eyes show no sign of human intelligence. Mérou at first refuses to perform connubially for the apes. But when Nova is put in the cell opposite with another strapping human male, he finds himself clawing at the bars like an animal. The apes, reassured by this return to "human" behavior, restore Nova to him. "I must now admit...
...countered with a hard shot just inside the post, and the score remained tied for the remainder of the game. Or almost the remainder. With less than minute to go the Penn outside left swept down the field around the defense and drew the Crimson goalie out of the cage. A neat pass to Finney, who had an open goal, sealed the Crimson's fate...