Word: accompanimental
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If, within its artful unity of theme and mood, The River has its trying moments, the film also offers some exceptionally rewarding ones-ranging from the stylized interlude of an ancient Indian fable, with Radha as its gracefully dancing heroine, to a brief, charming scene in which a kite cavorts...
The Big Push. By now, few bookmen would deny that the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild and some 50 other clubs have stimulated book reading and book buying. Privately, most booksellers admit that the clubs have often helped their business over the past 25 years (BoM started...
Violence at Midnight. Around midnight the mob got bolder. A dozen or so young bloods rushed the cops at the doorway to the apartment house, pushed past them, smashed in the front door, clambered upstairs to the Clark apartment. Out the window, to the accompaniment of cheers from the crowd...
Songstress Shoshana (Hebrew for Rose) has a deceptive way with her. She announces her songs demurely in broken English. Then, above a tinkling piano accompaniment, her voice rises plaintively while her hands trace delicate arabesques. As she sings an ancient Sephardic spiritual or a song of Yemen's lonely...
Though played in deadly earnest, Valentino is fun-in the sense that watching the jerky charades of early movies is fun. Its dialogue sounds as hackneyed as silent subtitles read aloud. Its simple-minded love story, which begs for trilling piano accompaniment, seems too naive for Valentino to have enacted...