Word: shrilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Resnais fails at last because of his very strengths: a thin narrative collapses under the weight of technical virtuosity. He offers shadow instead of substance, a clutter of seemingly irrelevant minutiae (a shrill soprano on the sound track, doors endlessly opening and closing, limbo shots of notes being written, reams of small talk, and provocative clues to heaven-knows-what) instead of reality's elusive core. "When you get right down to it, it's a trite story," remarks Actress Seyrig to her long-lost vis-à-vis. A master without a theme, Resnais has claimed that...
...Italian, English, French, German and Spanish. Hushed on other days, St. Peter's is no church of silence when an audience is in session. As the Pope read off the list of the day's visiting organizations, the great basilica rang with sound-handclapping and whistles, shrill, peeping vivas from nuns and grade-school delegations, deep-toned cheers from seminarians...
...film, to put it kindly, is less subtle. Scenarist Mann is a self-righteous and didactic young fellow who seems to feel that he has been personally appointed by Providence to sit in judgment on 80 million Germans. In Altona as in Nuremberg, his script is angry, preachy, shrill. It not only talks down. It is filled with the sort of teacher-knows-best truism ("It is better to face the truth no matter what the cost") that for reply invites a spitball...
Confident that they are in for keeps, Cuba's Communists at every level sing Moscow's song of peaceful co-existence with the U.S. Anti-Yankee propaganda is less shrill in tone, and those vicious caricatures of Uncle Sam poking life less Latinos in the belly are disappearing from the papers. "Why is it," asks a University of Havana student, "that Kennedy wants to be friends with Khrushchev, but not with Fidel? After all, both are leaders of socialist nations...
Sweat & Showmanship. Behind his dark glasses and glittering arsenal of horns, goateed Kirk sweats aplenty, with instinctive showmanship and passion. When the steam is up, he is likely to blow a shrill Tarzan victory call on a siren-whistle that could be mistaken for a hunting horn. He delights in the unexpected. In the middle of a flute solo, he will pop a child's plastic song flute into his right nostril and trill out a brief duet. For a performer who took up the flute only three years ago, Kirk plays it with astonishing virtuosity. He can begin...