Word: soupier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down in quality. Darryl Zanuck in Tora! Tora! Tora! spent millions to reproduce historical fact, but sacrificed artistic coherence for lavish commercial packaging. Hughes' Cromwell also fails, though on a smaller scale. But even as a larger financial venture, Cromwell's soupy musical score would probably just have been soupier (kettle drums beating more often as Cromwell opens his mouth), the battle standards ("In God we Trust," "God and Country" and sundry other embarrassing Americanisms) would have been painted and stitched with greater care, a voice coach might have been called in for Harris and less flaccid extras used...
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