Word: obbligato
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...flashbacks narrated by an author (in the picture, Herbert Marshall), a doctor (Albert Bassermann) and others who knew the great man. The device worked out well enough in print. On the screen it is all but disastrous-especially since Adaptor-Director Albert Lewin has Maugham's book read, obbligato, almost word for word. The reading is excellent, but it freezes the action into little more than a set of magic-lantern slides...
...steaming woods that crowd the engineer-made airdrome on Bataan, the monkeys chattered a tuneless obbligato to the bright-plumaged birds. Below them, sweating hard and grunting often, men in grease-stained coveralls worked over a handful of pursuit planes -the last, bullet-chipped remnant of Douglas MacArthur's Air Force. Now, after days of ingenious patching, the P-4Os were ready...
...complete job on U.S. slang is beyond human compass. "God-box" is given for Church but not for organ. "Profile" is curiously absent from journalistic slang. The Hollywood section fails to include "ootchimagootchi" (hot talk as an obbligato to Latin lovemaking), though it does give "wrinkle" (an actress' mother...
First conversation, an obbligato to a program of Bing Crosby records, was between two Jersey City men-about-town, who dwelt on the previous night's amours. Said one: "So everything was all right, eh?" Said the other...
...celebration provided good bucolic fare. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Raymond Wickard spoke from Washington, then an announcer in Indiana described the Secretary's Carroll County farm while Wickard livestock supplied a grunting, snuffling obbligato. From Indiana the program wandered to a Georgia vegetable garden, a poultry house in California, a wheat field in North Dakota. As usual the show was neither cute nor corny. It aimed to tell the farmer about his business, got down to earth as speedily as a gopher...