Word: whine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painter's life? Of a work that concentrates on a historically disputed love affair with the Duchess of Alba (Mezzo-Soprano Victoria Vergara), concluding with a gratuitous mad scene, replete with writhing spirits and fun-house demons? Of a score whose one striking musical device, an insistent, high-pitched whine signifying Goya's deafness, is borrowed from Smetana's string quartet From My Life...
...fire and explosion of the fragile civilization the family has so painstakingly made; the storm that imperils them in their last refuge; the mad attack by Allie on a missionary settlement -- all of these are well staged but lacking in resonance. The problem is that the high- pitched whine of Allie's character finally vitiates not merely the viewer's sympathy for him, but sympathy for the movie he dominates, despite the care and courage that went into its making...
...SICK, BUT there's a childlike, pitiful innocence in his perversion that keeps it from being too disturbing. His third-grade whine, soulful blinking eyes, stumbling toddler steps and flapping arms all serve as a pampering screen between him and the cruel, sick world. And, just as necessarily, between his sick mind and the audience...
...maintaining control. Also fluttering to the ground was the fuselage of a single-engine Piper Cherokee Archer that had collided with the DC-9 on the virtually cloudless day. Trying to slow the dive of his 60-ton plane, Valdes threw its two engines into reverse thrust. The whine of the jets grew to an awful roar before the airliner smashed with a fiery explosion into a pleasant middle-class neighborhood of suburban Cerritos, where residents had been enjoying the Labor Day weekend...
When six-year-old Ellis Clark hears the whine of a jet and spots the stubby shape of a 737 overhead, he brags to his playmates, "My dad makes those!" So do many other dads in Seattle, where Boeing, the world's most successful aircraft company, has its home. And those workers share the pride that their children feel. Says Dean Thornton, president of Boeing's commercial-airplane division: "Out of 100,000 Boeing employees, there's not one who doesn't get goose bumps when he sees a 747 in the air. This isn't like making toothpaste...