Word: hosband
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned into a sort of moral worm crawling in and out of his memory. She keeps his ashes in a gimcrack vase in their shanty parlor, and has long, sweaty daydreams about his body ("like a young bull"). "I was the peasant," she cries, "but I gave my hosband glory." One day reality in the improbable form of Alvaro Mangiacavallo (Burt Lancaster), "a bachelor wit' three dependents," breaks into Serafina's dank little dreamworld. Like the smuggler, he drives a truck, and has a rose tattooed on his brawny chest, which reminds Serafina almost unbearably of her husband...
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