Word: lamentive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moviemaker Malaparte, who wrote, directed and composed the music for the film, has clothed his theme in vivid imagery. The picture is one long, visual lament, beginning and ending in the mountains among the crosses of Allied soldiers who died fighting in Italy. The images of death are everywhere: in the head of a butchered calf, in skeletons in glass-walled burial crypts, in the traditional Game of the Cross, with its procession of masked and black-robed figures. Malaparte uses sounds as freshly as sights: dramatically, the funereal, off-screen beating of drums dominates an entire dialogue sequence...
Above all, Lehrer is a satirist, and his greatest talent lies in parodying the conventional run of popular numbers. He tweaks the sentimental home town, commemorating the kindly school master who sells French postal cards after class, and then jibes at the Irish Ballad, the love song, and cowboys' lament...
Seven students will take the first final exams of the year in tuxedos tonight as the annual colloquium of English Q, the College's discusses "The Challenge of Our Times." The colloquium will take place at the Lament Forum Room...
...then they will be such not to any ethnic or religious group, but to their country. Why, it is as silly to refer to Paul Robeson as a "traitor to the good name of the American Negro" as it would be to refer to Frederick Vanderbilt Field or Corliss Lament as "traitors to the good name of the American Anglo-Saxon...
...from ever fully scaling the literary heights-was his inability to feel deeply. He once said if he had to choose between the collected works of Shakespeare and Roget's Thesaurus, "I would let Billy go, upon my word." He could write perceptively, but he had to lament, while trying to write about love: "I have never been in love. Sometimes the tears start to my eyes, but they never fall...