Word: unisonous
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...ceremony on a hillside in one of the 29 scattered patches of land that make up the Zulu Bantustan, a separate homeland set up by the apartheid government in Pretoria. Warriors rattled their assegais (short, stabbing spears) against oxhide shields. "Si-gi-di [Strength]," they thundered in unison, recalling the classic battle cry of the Zulu armies...
...Friday triumph was an upset since Pomeroy's one-two piddly of Sally Surgenor and Sissy Clark have played together since nursery school and had never lost. "We just kept sending up winks, but they weren't getting through." Surgenor and Clark said in unison...
...father, who in turn becomes her grandfather, who later becomes a French count. Jane's psychologist and his wife change sexes to put more fun in their marriage. At the end of the play Jane is cured, sort of, and the psychologist and his wife (or husband) recite in unison a Freudian explanation of her problem, while the rest of the cast waltzes the Blue Danube...
There are six separate textures in the one chorus, ranging from the brilliant counterpoint of "wretched lovers" set against "Behold the monster..." to a unison homophonic admiration for the giant's "ample strides...
...after all the errata, the core of the fiction remains incorruptible. Gilliatt is always a mature artist; Schlesinger is often one. When they work in unison they emphasize the callowness of such tentative sexual probes as Carnal Knowledge or Husbarids. And they provide a binary challenge-to the viewer and the film maker. For at its frequent best, Sunday Bloody Sunday proves that no theme, no individual need be beyond the reach of cinema. The faults and excesses of this difficult, contradictory film cannot be glossed over or indulged. Nevertheless, Sunday Bloody Sunday must even now be considered...