Word: cave
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...Flight of the Innocent. And no director has more vividly realized the plight of an innocent than youthful Carlo Carlei (who wrote the screenplay with Gualtiero Rosella). One fine warm day in Calabria, in southern Italy, Vito's entire family (and a boy they have mysteriously sequestered in a cave nearby) is massacred, and Vito narrowly escapes execution at the hands of a scarfaced man who will stalk him (and his nightmares) for the rest of the film...
These things we learn in due course: that Vito's sole surviving relative is a small-time crook in Rome; that the dead boy in the cave had been kidnapped by Vito's family and was being held for ransom; that the family's slayers were members of a rival clan (though their precise motives remain obscure). Vito catches glimpses of the dead boy's parents on TV, making anguished pleas for his return. Eventually he feels compelled to make his way to them, and attempts to crawl into their son's bed, into his very life. The moviemakers note...
...Seth," he said, "something's wrong...you're different from the other people I know. Sometimes that worries me." He sighed heavily and got up to make the trek back into his cave, muttering under his breath. "Oh lord, oh lord, my heavy heavy load...
...Nixon in China), a horrifying mass murder (John Moran's The Manson Family) and the life and times of a fiery black radical (Anthony Davis' X). Throw in William Bolcom's 1992 McTeague, a setting of Frank Norris' wrenching turn-of-the-century novel, and Steve Reich's The Cave, a challenging examination of the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict that gets its American premiere this week in Brooklyn, and you have something like a Golden Age of American opera -- boasting a body of work that ranks among the best, most innovative and most popular "serious" music...
Walker Allen '96, Tonenson's roommate, found atruly creative approach to find privacy in crampedquarters. She built a "kabouki," or cave, aroundher bed by draping sheets from the bed above...