Word: sirening
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...used as a populist club to pulverize the old elitist verities: grace, wit, precision, proportion, coherence. No walking of the fine narrative line for the apostles of anarchy, whose police-siren song goes like this: Wake up, pal! Get out of your fusty drawing room and hit the streets! The Aristotelian unities are dead! Modern life is chaos, and this time around, art is life set to a whomping backbeat that never lets up. When society has fallen apart, don't pick up the pieces, just admire them where they fall...
...storm clouds of war form on King Henry's brow, the summer sun sets abruptly, leaving audience and players in the dark. Henry addresses his troops before battle, and some low-flying aircraft provide martial rumblings. Henry and Katharine share their first kiss, and a police siren serendipitously whoops for joy. Is all the world a stage? Then Manhattan is a bustling sound stage...
...roles, John Rawnsley as Rigoletto displays a rich, focused baritone, and Valerie Masterson as Gilda has a clear, secure high soprano. Tenor Arthur Davies' voice is a little light for the Duke, but he manages to make the character at once attractive and morally repugnant. As the trampy siren...
Hustus was responding with flashing lights and siren to a 2.25 p.m. call when a car pulled in front of him at the intersection of Mt. Auburn Street and University Place...
BECAUSE NO CHARACTER in the film can verbalize his thoughts or emotions, the cast relies extensively on token gestures and allusions to convey its message. Sometimes, in the case of the blasting air-raid siren, the allusions are subtle: other times, as in the case of the returning paraplegic soldier from war, the statements are more blunt. In virtually every instance, however, the director weaves this type of commentary skillfully and creatively into the central dance scenes, enabling the film to maintain an artistic symmetry. Even the scenes fraught with tension--potentially sore appendages to an otherwised highly synchronized...