Word: sicilianism
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...killing. Rodriguez described with professional precision how the son, deftly disguised as a jogger, took aim at Cammarata as he was walking away from a North Miami bistro and drilled him with eight rounds from a .30-cal. carbine. A family man to the end, the 68-year-old Sicilian told the gathering crowd, "Don't call the police. I will be O.K.," and died...
...aristocrat who became a movie director at the age of 30 and made an international reputation with a handful of meticulously wrought and highly atmospheric films; of a heart attack while suffering from influenza; in Rome. An early neorealist, along with Vittorio de Sica and Michelangelo Antonioni, Visconti used Sicilian villagers instead of actors in La Terra Trema (1947), the drama of a poor fisherman's family. In Rocco and His Brothers (1960), he described the brutalizing of a farm family moving north to Milan. Visconti's later works tended toward operatic melodrama (The Damned) or slick, vacant...
...monstrous 16th century carvings near Bomarzo in Italy. They are also fascinated by "naive" and "primitive" structures like the Watts Towers in Los Angeles, by puppets, facsimiles and toys. Their studio loft in Manhattan's Little Italy is crammed with antique clockwork toys and fragments of gaudy Sicilian carts. (They once traveled together in a horse-drawn wagon from Florence to Venice, giving puppet shows en route to pay their way.) Such are not the tastes of formalists, and those who like only "high" art will have to find other places to look for it in New York...
...Night Caller is one of those French films made in envious and inadvertently silly imitation of American crime melodramas. Director Henri Verneuil (The Sicilian Clan) works hard to duplicate every cliche of the genre, from a car chase right down to a breathless pursuit up stairs that wind like a snail's shell...
...like South Boston while others sit on the boards of major corporations or in the White House or even in the United Nations. Similarly, if a group advances because its behavior and attitudes conform to social norms, it's difficult to explain the economic and political power of the Sicilian Mafiosi, who never went to college, joined the Rotary Club, or read Robert Dahl...