Word: muzakal
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...when he leaves for Turkey, a near descent into bathos after the first battle scene and a few half-hearted scenes of soldiers at liberty in the market in Egypt--the sounds that accompany Boyd's overwhelming images are the film's only flaw. Even the zipping and buzzing muzak noises would not be so awful except that Weir repeatedly splices between them Albinoni's dirge-like Adagio in G minor to signify CRITICAL MOMENTS and IMPENDING FATE. The fault lies not in the adagio, which is a fine piece of music, but its repeated...
...himself. He fries his own breakfasts (eggs, bacon and biscuits), types his own letters in a spare?truly spare?basement room in Raleigh, and refuses to be chauffeured. He drives his own anonymous 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88, in which he listens exclusively to what he agrees is "Muzak music...
...over quickly. And anyway, Wilson obviously knew what he was doing--his play has been a hit in New York and other cities, and won the Pulitzer Prize last year. If to sell a delicately unpretentious, inspirationally rich play Wilson had to tack on a bit of dramatic muzak, that seems an acceptable price...
Inside, Mr. Ed Hoffman, "the singing usher" from the Angel's Anaheim Stadium and the father of Red Sox shortstop Glenn Hoffman, sings the national anthem accompanied by the muzak of the park organ. Afterwards, Mrs. Eleanor "Stoney" Stone, who the scoreboard calls "a long time Red Sox fan," a mother of nine and a grand-mother of ten, throws out the first ball to Red Sox cathcher Gary Allenson. Someone in the stands yells, "Put her in the bullpen...
...minutes of vivacious music here provide escape from the schlock pop and muzak-like experimentation that have recently weighed down record racks, and returns us to some unpretentious, down-home songs from the soul of America, both Black and white. Love, and the mystery of life, have enabled Jeffreys to escape the traumas in the N.Y. Post, which he reads on the album's cover; and through America's escape medium, perhaps we still have a chance...