Word: accompanimental
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Fear succeeds where the Germans do not. One of the myths of battle is that the tempered veteran loses his fear. In Mowat's case, the "Worm That Never Dies" grows stronger with each new holocaust. The change can be read in his progressive perceptions of death. An early...
Schrader paces his film like a march through a rain forest, pausing every few yards to admire the "architecture" of Southern California. Each sequence begins with unnecessary shots of buildings, deck chairs and doorways, and enough driving to explain last summer's gas shortage. The movement of Schrader's camera...
Later, a troupe of dancers and singers comes onstage and does a cakewalk to the accompaniment of a ragtime banjo. This is fun and lightens the darker moments, but it is a trifle deceptive. Williams has always been a master at utilizing period music to invoke memories of happier times...
Nowadays it is the other way round. The richer and more upper-class the undergraduates, the more prone they are to get themselves up on proletarian fancy dress-which, incidentally, can often be quite costly-and to cultivate a nondescript accent which might belong to anyone anywhere. This is part...
The show opens with a 5-min. news roundup much like those of the commercial networks, followed by a cascade of 15 to 18 features, each ranging upwards of 3 min. in length. Straightforward accounts of Andrew Young's resignation and the Mexican oil spill may be followed by...