Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than in strict melody. He does the weirdest off-beat stuff you would want to hear--climbs way out on a limb, counts the clever, but still manages to get back in time for the next eight bar sequence. This is piano that isn't pretty, pre-calculated, or trite. It's some of the guttlost and best jazz I have heard in a long time...
...answers are easy enough to spot. He beats around the bush and pours out his trite interpretations whether they are relevant or not. He writes what he has been told to write beforehand, without using his own brain as a middleman. He uses a few cliches until they turn to ashes in the corrector's mouth...
Everything Happens at Night (20th Century-Fox) continues prudent but so far rather unproductive efforts to turn Sonja Henie into a dramatic actress against the day when even Henie fans may tire of seeing Henie skate. Surrounded by a capable cast (Maurice Moscovich, Robert Cummings, Ray Milland), in a trite little, tight little tale, this time Sonja Henie skates only once, and though she is a competent skier, long shots of her skiing were done by a double. But whether she is gliding backwards or forwards, or skating rings around Greek columns to the strains of The Blue Danube, Sonja...