Word: perfidia
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...Wong's films are a snap to decode for anyone familiar with the tropes of classic movie romance. Consider just three. Music: a slow samba can seduce two strangers into moving to each other's emotional time, and 2046 sways to Perfidia and Quiz?s, Quiz?s, Quiz?s. Cigarettes: everyone puffs away pensively; the fumes wrap the characters in a retro-chic warmth as they dedicate themselves to that mesmeric movie rite, the sacrament of smoking. The kiss: 2046 has one of the great ones, between Chow and Su. He stands her against a wall and presses mouth to mouth. He moves...
...finally getting to the point - anyone with an ear to the radio got a world tour. Earlier decades had welcomed a few musical refugees: "Perfidia" in Glenn Miller's version, Eddy Duchin's cover of "Brazil", the Andrews Sisters' hot-Yiddish "Bei Mir Bist du Schön." But the '50s truly internationalized music on the radio; it turned AM into...
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