Word: sicilianism
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...just come out of Lamont, you haven't eaten in six hours, you've been studying all night, you're starving and, on top of everything else, it's freezing. Where do you go? Your choices are as varied as Tommy's sesame crust pizza, Pinocchio's Sicilian pizza or Store 24's hours-old, microwavable mysteries...
Last spring, though, Autry returned home to Tempe, Arizona, with every intention of transferring to Arizona State. "Winter hit me right in the mouth," says Autry, who recently projected himself as a Sicilian statue for a theater class. "I couldn't imagine ever coming back for another year." But Barnett and Autry's father pressured him to return, and by the time football started, "things just turned around like that...
...focuses on two implacably determined prosecutors, who with the help of informers managed to breach the wall of secrecy and the infamous culture of omerte (silence) that surrounded the Mafia. Childhood friends from Palermo, aloof, workaholic Giovanni Falcone and the gregarious Paolo Borsellino were, in the author's phrase, Sicilian patriots. Together they painstakingly amassed the evidence that led to the first so-called maxi-trial, of 475 Mafia conspirators, which began in Palermo on Feb. 16, 1986, and ended 22 months later with the conviction of 344 defendants. Both prosecutors eventually paid for their integrity and grit...
...Chop it Sicilian style...
...powerful scene in a Sicilian town square, she is surrounded by silent, leering men. The men are detestable in their predatory stances, but the viewer, taunted and manipulated by her beauty, seeks to understand her, to circle her and to communicate desire to her in much the same way. Instead of comprehension and compassion, more often than not the viewer is given Vitti's neck and the back of her head, in a close-up foreground shot...