Word: sicilianism
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...ROSE TATTOO is a sensuously direct drama of a Sicilian widow in Louisiana with an obsessive attachment to an urn containing her husband's ashes. Maureen Stapleton once again plays Tennessee Williams' high-strung heroine...
...ROSE TATTOO. In a successful revival of Tennessee Williams' tender and funny play, Maureen Stapleton re-creates her role of Serafina Delle Rosa, the widow of a Sicilian truck driver caught between her passion for the memory of her husband and the erotic attractions of another truck driver (Harry Guardino...
...prime element, a life force that no more obeys the laws of convention than a tidal wave heeds the shore line. The heroine (Maureen Stapleton) is a kind of common woman's Phaedra. Just as the Greek Queen went mad in her passion for her stepson Hippolytus, this Sicilian widow near New Orleans goes mad in her passion for the memory of her dead truck-driver husband. When a young sailor lights the fires of love in the eyes of her 15-year-old daughter (Maria Tucci), the widow turns fiercely moralistic. Then the image of her late husband...
Visible Sex. "More objectively," said Moore, "the courts cannot be wholly oblivious to contemporary community standards." While 491 languished in the customs basement, he said, millions of Americans were free to view the Italian film Love and Marriage, which depicts a sultry Sicilian wife cuckolding her husband everywhere from a public lavatory to his own bed as he sleeps on it. Glancing at U.S. bestsellers, Moore wryly noted that Harold Robbins' The Adventurers "introduces a different nymphomaniac every few chapters," while Masters and Johnson's Human Sexual Response describes hundreds of couples' reactions as they "perform their...
Their struggle, waged for decades with near-Sicilian ferocity, is less a political schism than a blood feud between so-called liberals and uncompromising conservatives. Last week, Texas' liberals threatened to bolt in a body from the Democratic Party in order, of all things, to support a conservative Republican...