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...numbers we’ve seen on the show. The sequence is a film unto itself: the use of diagetic and non-diegetic music, the use of the stage and its wings, the amount of information imparted without a single line of dialogue. It’s a heartbreaking, wordless little story with great choreography...
...against each other constantly and straight guys scream for more. Woof! • The humility inherent in the sport: they make themselves more available to the press than any other athletes and always talk about "Getting it done" with "heart" and "team effort" and "character." • Whole wordless epics unfold with every shift, as we wait to see how X will retaliate for Y's behavior in the last period. • At any moment, someone might try to punch someone else in the face. I know that's not the sentiment the NHL wants to promote...
...Dissolve,” finds the band remembering how to be mindless without being mind-numbing, which is more than can be said for the likes of “Liquid In, Liquid Out” and the title track, the latter of which boasts a pretty irritating wordless-cheering section in lieu of a chorus.So the Thermals find themselves on the long road through self-parody. It’s difficult, at first, to listen to a band squander the potential of a record like “Machine” on such a middling follow-up. But then...
...fatigued, she never betrays it. An eager, insistent clot of people pushes toward her, and somehow she manages to greet each well-wisher with a fractional recalibration of body language that suggests a wordless surge of elated surprise on her part: Oh, it's you! You're the one I've been most hoping to see, and how wonderful that we share that secret knowledge! To achieve this effect, Winslet must appear, at every minute, to be not only the most interesting person in the room but also the most interested. This is not easy, and she does it very...
...lia’s Oratorio” is itself the brainchild of Thierrée’s mother, Victoria Thierrée Chaplin, who is widely considered to be responsible for the rebirth of the modern circus. In what may be a family tradition, the play is largely wordless, except for Martinez repeatedly calling Aurélia’s name. This, combined with the plaintive male tones of the phone message that precedes the show, vaguely suggests an unexplored romantic storyline. The “Oratorio” would benefit from choosing one of two directions?...