Word: hummed
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...hum. Just tied...
This is why I have found trips to CVS so traumatic in recent weeks. I will half-recognize the songs that are playing—will hum absently as I compare the merits of various shampoos, will think, “Now where do I know this from?” as I give the cashier my ExtraCare card. But I will not be able to place the song until I step out into the December chill and realize with a start that the song was “What Child Is This?” rendered unrecognizeable...
...Drummer Peter S.R. Kennedy ’03, a.k.a PK-1, calls my cell phone from the second car* to hum me a song he’s been working on that sounds like the yell a mute person makes the moment before death. “That’s pretty tight,” I say and put the phone by Fink’s ear. “That’s pretty tight,” he concurs...
...flaw that colors everything in the film, however, is Taymor’s hesitant and wobbly direction. While the ballsy Titus knew well that it was visually arresting and never forgot, Frida oscillates nervously between an intense visual palette and boring displays of ho-hum period cinematography and horrendously contrived narrative set-ups that bore more than they evoke. Early in the film, the trolley crash that renders Kahlo periodically unable to walk is shot and edited with a shocking visceral quality and a brash artistic confidence. Immediately after, Taymor gives us a shamelessly trippy, grotesque animated sequence that quite...
...security guards are posted at the gate into the fenced-in facility. A room on the second floor contains a bedspread and pillows neatly laid out for a photo shoot, but conspicuously lacking are the hum of factory machines and the presence of workers...