The more prevalent is that Spider Grandmother caused a hollow reed ( or bamboo ) to grow into the sky, and it emerged in the Fourth World at the sipapu.
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The excellent " Hollow Reed " took the TV-movie setup of a 9-year-old boy being abused by his mother's boyfriend and expanded it into a devastating portrait of familial interdependence.
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_Martin Donovan, best known for Hal Hartley's movies and " The Portrait of a Lady, " plays a gay father at odds with his ex-wife's boyfriend in " Hollow Reed ."
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He then broke off a hollow reed and, placing it in the hole he had thus developed, lay down on his stomach and appeared to suck up something through the reed.
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A pirn was a weaver s spool for holding his weft yarn in the shuttle, originally made from a quill or hollow reed, in later times they were made from wood.
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Not surprisingly, each of these movies was made in another country : " Ponette " and " Mondo " in France, " La Promesse " in Belgium, and " Hollow Reed " in England.
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Writing in The Independent in London, Kevin Jackson, a film critic, said, " ` Hollow Reed'boasts the British debut of one of the most fascinating actors cast up by the American independent sector ."
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And while " Hollow Reed " is a small-budget film, financed in part by Britain's Channel 4, it marks the first time Donovan has had the starring role in anything other than a Hartley film.
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"Hollow Reed, " on the other hand, contains plenty of dialogue, although almost none of it is spoken by young Sam Bould as a 9-year-old boy secretly suffering the abuses of his mother's pent-up boyfriend.
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Between the days of the ancient stylus and the advent of the steel-tipped pen of the industrial period, the quill and the hollow reed brought every major and minor piece of writing in Western civilization to life.
