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Nicola's most important asset is a patch of land he can trade for a passage to Canada. He has one nubile daughter named Michela, another one named Sira, who is a mute. On St. Francis' night, when the egg white and the cardoon are on the window sills, a village woman empties a chamber pot on two peasants. This has the odd effect of stirring their passions, and they waylay Michela with rape in mind. The rape is not accomplished, but Michela becomes as mutely mad as her sister; what is more she is really in love...
...Performance of the dancing mute Toby in "The Medium": Eugene Gervasi...
...lost little of its tenuous, dreamlike quality. As a homely, stammering drudge who is trying to reclaim her no-account husband just out of jail, Actress Stanley gave a sunlit performance. Like a hand picking up broken glass, she limned her character with tentative little twitches, awkward hesitations and mute expectancy. For TV's dramatic ladies, the unhappy score at the end of their week was only one little-noticed hit and four glaring errors...
Himself Yorkshire-born. Hubert Nicholson, 49. is the first novelist in years to give tragic stature to the mute inglorious farmer. He uses the pungent local dialect tellingly but never unintelligibly. Above all, he has created one of those rare images of an ardent, convention-defying love in which the lovers do not "know what or care where or ask why''-but the reader page-hungrily does...
...Eric's feet and collapses wailing to the ground. What enables the staff to go on is the knowledge that the children have been more sinned against than sinning. There is the little boy who has never been heard to utter a word, another youngster who drops mute and frozen to the earth at the merest drone of an approaching plane...