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Word: sprechgesang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1969-1969
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...songs. Like the pupils' Latin lessons, the lyrics will not pass scrutiny ("He smiled. I smiled. We smiled. And the sky smiled too."); the melodies are scarcely more tuneful than a piece of hard chalk drawn across a blackboard. Even with O'Toole's oddly moving Sprechgesang and Clark's perfect phrasing, the numbers never add up to a score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Master | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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