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...matter that Jansen, like most everyone else, changed. His ebullient, cheerful wife Robin bore a daughter. They named her Jane after his sister. Jane was learning to crawl as daddy was lowering the 500 world record to less than 36 sec. in preparation for his final attempt to win an Olympic medal. Jansen told everyone who asked that he was at peace. It was apparent in his eyes, still soft but no longer...
During World War II the U.S. military took over several Harvard buildings, including the Semitic Museum. Thus began the museum's forty-year exile. Gradually, its collections were distributed here, there and everywhere: to a warehouse, to a Wellesley College professor's home, to other Harvard facilities, to a crawl-space under the Brandeis University library, to scattered basements and attics. Some holdings were actually destroyed. Then, in 1970, anti-war protesters detonated a bomb in the museum, which for 12 years already had been the home of the Center for International Affairs. Found in the rubble of virtuous indignation...
...gotta learn to dance before you learn to crawl...
...gotta learn to dance before you learn to crawl...
...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 that there have been nearly 700 kidnappings for ransom in Italy since 1986. They also observe that murderous clan warfare is a continuing fact of life in Calabria. But Flight of the Innocent is not primarily a sociological tract...