Word: non-sequitur
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...were all shot in that vibrant natural light Huston manages to record. Every shot is composed with the care and sense of proportion found in a good salon still. The film as a whole is a good-natured and beautifully turned-out joke, a string of very funny, often non-sequitur, sequences...
Fish is a commonplace lampoon of poor singers and non-sequitur lyrics. But There's a New Sound is an unrelenting and fairly unforgettable satire on such gimmicks as echo chambers and dog barks (as in Doggie in the Window). There's a New Sound depends on a Donald Ducklike cackle and a jigging country beat. Its chorus gets repeated five times (each time a tone higher) and its melody uses just two notes, "for simplicity...
...latest feature to be added is "The College Pump" which first appeared in the March 8 issue as a column "for the stray line of Harvard verse, the pleasant non-sequitur of academic observation, and the simple fragment of phrase...
...from a purely professional point of view, the complete lack of CAPITALIZED WORDS is really regrettable. Also, as one admirer of the Boston American to another, don't you think that, when writing non-sequitur passages, long words such as "coordination" should be omitted? Of course, I may be wrong, but my personal conviction is that long words might just possibly make the reader stop to think, and I do not feel that this is desirable...
Against this array and fortified with an amusing non-sequitur, Naturalist Hornaday went with his story...