Word: tiomkin
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...tell a sort of child's history of steel from the first meteor that ever hit the earth to the first manned rocket that leaves it, and most of the time Moviemaker Sutherland proves a slick entertainer and a painless pedagogue. Unhappily, the music of Oscar-Winning Dmitri Tiomkin, who is probably the world's loudest composer, bangs away on the sound track like a trip hammer. But the picture's pace is brisk, its tricks of animation are better than cute, and the plug, when the sponsor slips it in on the final frame, is modestly...
...much too often, Tracy cannot contend with his own garbled narrative; with Dmitri Tiomkin's musical score, which is alternately martial and ritualistic (and obtrusive enough to ruin the effect of at least two good scenes); and with Arthur Schmidt's film editing, which unfortunately is at its spliciest in the climactic battle between Tracy and the fish...
...Wind caught the public fancy, Hollywood's rule-of-baton used-to be that a good score is one the audience does not hear.* Now film scores have become big sellers on the pop market. The change was foreshadowed by The Third Man theme and by Dimitri Tiomkin's High Noon; both tunes were dramatically part of the movies whose titles they bore, but also became huge independent hits. Nowadays a producer may assign a composer to do a title tune even before he casts the leading roles or raises all his money. Even mere accompaniment scores without...
...plane. They will see Ambassador Thomas, all done up in high hat and frock coat, presenting his credentials to the King and making a little speech. And during a visit to Kashmir they will hear-if by that time they have not been deafened by the music of Dimitri Tiomkin-a singing commercial for Lowell Thomas' daily newscast...
...announced deadpan that Kathryn Murray, the indefatigable hostess of The Arthur Murray Party (TIME, July 22), "will not fight Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight championship of the world." He ribaldly admired the way Golfer Louise Suggs "drops her shorts on each green" and suggested to Hollywood Composer Dimitri Tiomkin some popular lyrics for new movies: "You are a mess, you are my Sweet Smell of Success"; "The day they hanged my daddy, mother was just A Face in the Crowd." To the dismay of NBC brass, he lashed out at the New York World-Telegram's Critic Harriet...