Word: wordless
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...number of dance interludes, which are dreamlike and performed mostly to words and not music. Often, even during the more realistic scenes, the actors move in a dance-like way, contrasting with Lucie’s stomping, heavy steps. After her death, there is an incredible, wordless scene that consists of Lucie and Jean moving into different poses as he dreams of her, interspersed with fades to black...
...couldn't imagine," said Wilson's former foster mother, Norma Garley, nearly wordless. "Something like that happening to somebody in my family." Garley and her family took Wilson in at age seven, after the girl was sexually abused by family members. When Wilson was 14 social workers moved her, but the Garleys kept in touch and Wilson telephoned them just before December 2001, when she vanished. Until the trial, the Garleys had no idea the girl they called "Running Bear," the name honoring Wilson's aboriginal heritage, had grown up to become a drug addict selling sex on Downtown Eastside...
Cameras supposedly don't lie, yet in this lovely, wordless story the photos from a camera found by a boy on a beach are hard to believe--fantastical creatures, underwater realms, seashell cities. What to do with such a magical device? One shot gives the clue: a self-portrait of a child holding a self-portrait of a child, and so on, back through the generations. The boy tosses the camera into the ocean, to become flotsam on the imagination of another youth on another shore...
...God’s Silence,” Wright is too eager to escape into wordless epiphany. Ultimately, his graceful generalities fail to satisfy...
Alison Goldfrapp has described her band's third album as a "place to take part in fortnightly disco sances." If you like your dance divas nuttier than a fruitcake, she's definitely your gal. What's surprising is that Goldfrapp (who started out as the wordless howler on Tricky's finest albums) and musical partner Will Gregory also have a sublime pop sensibility. Ooh la la is a sticky homage to Norman Greenbaum's Spirit in the Sky and Kylie Minogue's lyric book ("switch me on/ turn me up"). Meanwhile, the synth-rock ballad Number 1 has enough...