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...projector starts and the screen stays black--we hear a "haunting," "exotic" flute and soon the clatter of oxen's feet. After an interminably long time, the camera finds the cattle, and immediately pans in on the cloven hooves scuffing through the dusty soil. Thereby Rooks has introduced what turns out to be a major motif in the movie--feet. The film's fascination with this part of the anatomy is endless. When Siddhartha pads solemnly through the forest in search of you know what, we become familiar with his dirty toes. And when Siddhartha has 'crossed the river" (this...
During the day, the air is filled with the clatter of jammed streetcars and the bawling of street vendors. Taxi drivers curse other motorists, while the wail of Arabic music from countless transistors is everywhere. Periodically the radio broadcasts a low-keyed statement from the government on the latest developments...
Much as the Dutch like the clatter of wooden shoes on cobblestone streets, they have always detested the clicking of military heels. It reminds them of the years of Wehrmacht occupation. They would prefer the army to walk softly, the way resistance fighters did during World...
...minutes before 10 on Friday mornings, the marble corridors of the Supreme Court building's main floor echo with the clatter of handcarts being pushed toward the well-guarded main conference room next door to the Chief Justice's office. The carts contain petitions for certiorari (requests for review, the normal means by which most cases reach the court), briefs, transcripts, memos from clerks, notebooks-every Justice's file on virtually every case that may come up during the taxing all-day session. It usually takes two or three carts to hold each Justice's material...
...stretch of camp biography. With admirable devotion to accuracy Leonardo's lines are limited to sentiments that actually survive in his notebooks. The result is that French Actor Philippe Leroy, who plays him, has little to do but brood burningly upon the world while lines of primordial exposition clatter about him. (Penny-pinching grandfather: "What's the good of all this schooling? It does not put bread on the table...