Word: muted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anything to him?" an official asks a young boy whose face is framed in heavy bandages. The boy, burned when an uncle poured hot grease over him, shows mute incomprehension...
...failed, elderly intellectual named Humberto. He is the caretaker of a huge, decayed and sparsely tenanted religious retreat house near Santiago. Those few others who live there-a mother superior, a few female orphans and a handful of ancient housemaids-know Humberto only as "Mudito." The name means "Little Mute," and indeed no one knows that Humberto can speak...
...unhappiness of the others. After Lena's suicide he is stricken with guilt and determines to work a "miracle" to prove that things need not be the wretched way they are. He returns home with Karen and in the film's last scene he works his miracle, teaching her mute child how to speak...
...that exposes the alternately tragic and comic tensions of unrequited loves and lives. The caustically self-pitying Uncle Vanya (Nicol Williamson), who has worked the estate along with his niece Sonya (Elizabeth Wilson), realizes that he has sacrificed his life in the service of a pompous academic fraud. The mute adoration he offers Elena bores and annoys...
...horse or a horse that talks like a man." Opting for the former, Abramovitz devises an act of his own in which he begs the circus audience to set him free from the body of a horse and the tyranny of his Master, who fittingly is a dead-mute. Not surprisingly, Abramovitz's pleas are met only with titters of incomprehension and embarrassed silence. In a fight with his Master, he is liberated from his horse's body -- from the waist up. Good news would be unacceptable news for Malamud, so his hero becomes only half a man, cantering "across...