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...VENDETTA OF SILENCE by Ann Cornelisen. 242 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...length portrait of this living past, was a small classic. A documentary written like a novel, it dramatized a cultural collision that set a slightly brash ex-Vassar girl trying to organize nursery centers against a cast of southern Italians as passively resistant as one of their mountain roads. Vendetta of Silence is a novel written like a documentary. "At the request of my publishers and my lawyer, I have agreed to call this a novel," the author comments in a prefatory note to what, among other things, is a murder story. The "arrested violence" of Torregreca- all the bottled...
...Mexican constable who matches his shield: battered and tarnished. The decades of self-deprecation seem a fair resume of his character. Yet when a gunrunner humiliates him to the limits of dignity, the deputy discovers the force that has been dormant in his shield and himself. He announces a vendetta with a terse message-"Valdez is coming"-and the shabby film ignites as he begins a journey to prove himself to himself. Why? Because Valdez is played by Burt Lancaster, 57, who owns a property not available to the Now generation of film actors: a face...
...husbands appear. With the men present, the atmosphere is less claustrophobic and, if possible, even funnier. One has remarried and another is about to; the third is happy with a bisexual assortment-including his exwife. The men have pretty much dropped their vendetta with the past. While the women are more vitriolic, they seem, at play's end, sadder and more vulnerable, rather like Chekhov's three sisters, to whom a closing mock-reference is made...
...personal vendetta, M. "Deac" Dake scored 23 points in a span of 42 seconds to lead the CRIMSON past the Daily Pennsylvanian, 23-2, in a game played at halftime Friday night in the Palestra...