Word: wailful
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...Vietnamese are taking no chances. The Price of Peace cuts from joyous throngs in Hanoi last February celebrating Tet to anti-aircraft crews drilling, still watching and waiting. In a stunning, red-filtered rapid-fire sequence, the film then returns to the awful scene last Christmas. Air raid sirens wail in the background, Hanoi's people retrace familiar paths to their bomb shelters, gun crews peer upward into the darkness, bombs carpet the screaming night, missiles streak skyward, periodically to rendezvous with their unwilling targets...
...wail the dimming of our shining star...
...toward the black, tubular individual bomb shelters that line the city's downtown streets. After all, never in the history of the Indochina war had densely populated downtown Hanoi been bombed. Last week Hanoi's luck ran out. By the time the air-raid sirens began to wail their warnings, the French diplomatic mission had been bombed into ruins, five employees were dead, and the chief French diplomat in North Viet Nam, Pierre Susini, was critically injured...
...Hanoi: "It is a city of noises where human conversations are dwarfed by the sounds of war. Hanoi residents seldom see the war; they listen to it from home or street-corner shelters. A piercing wail means the jets are coming, the scream of an engine means they are passing overhead on their way to targets in the city's industrial suburbs...
...15th is also grandiose and tire some, a big, empty balloon of a symphony. Shostakovich makes all the right orchestral gestures. Snare drums tap away energetically. Muted trumpets wail balefully from some nostalgic never-never land. The first cello sings a sad song. At the proper climactic moments, the strings and brass saw away at each other like legions at war. Yet gesture is just about all there...