Word: sicilianism
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Ruby meets its primary aim--to humanize the man behind the historical figure of Jack Ruby--remarkably well. As a Jewish hustler trying to move up in the Sicilian hierarchy, Ruby is the quintessential outsider, and Danny Aiello movingly portrays him as an heroic figure seeking truth, justice and the American way. Sherilyn Fenn, as Candy Cane, also boosts the movie's emotional impact...
Salisa, a Sicilian whose real name is Celeste Cimino, spends some time on stage doing the belly thing and some time talking with customers...
...Banzars seem to be successful in recreating a piece of the "Old Country," even if belly dancing comes more from Turkey than Greece. And even if Salisa is Sicilian...
They are among the richest families in Colombia, but to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, they are the new kings of cocaine, patriarchs of a criminal consortium more disciplined and protected from prosecution than the Sicilian Mafia and now bigger than the Medellin cartel...
...painting that is perhaps the star of this show is Agrigento, 1954. It is based on a Sicilian archaeological site De Stael visited, now defiled by condos and hotels but in those days a bare array of hills crowned with the vestiges of Greek temples. The picture might have degenerated into an orgy of color, with its tomato-red sky and purple patches. Instead the balance is so finely held between the colored cuts and triangles -- two orange, four lemon- yellow, three purple and so on -- that one sees how strong De Stael's formal constraints were, even when...