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...moans were soft and low, an ocean's breeze, finally sinking after long sailing. Her body rocked, though gently. She barely moved. The morning's great passion complete, she simply chews her thoughts now, turning them over and over, soft, fluid clay. Her thoughts were wordless and unformed; they were just wet masses that hung over her mind, dripping their lack of nourishment into half prayers...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

...Wordless. Unlike the many jazz singers who grimace, snap their ringers or just plain wonder what to do with themselves during long instrumental introductions and interludes, Cleo knows precisely what is called for: she sings along with all the wordless instrumental agility of a clarinet cozying up to a sax. The man who plays sax to Cleo's clarinet is her arranger, conductor and husband, Johnny Dankworth, himself a leading British jazzman and composer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cool Cleo | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

FRIDAY: Twilight Zone. Agnes Moorehead is the lone and wordless star of one of the best Twilight Zone's ever. She plays an old farm woman doing lonely battle with invaders from another planet. Rod Serting script...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 1/4/1973 | See Source »

...music, and eminently visible in his live performance. The guttural rantings that make up the bulk of the song's eleven minutes are indeed unsettling, but they're meant to be, given the seriousness of the song. Van Morrison is here communicating on the lowest possible level--wordless sounds...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: Searching for the Lion | 7/25/1972 | See Source »

Joseph's troupe is also superb, always mirroring the unreality with which Rosencrantz and Guildenstern view the "real" world. Lauren Sunstein, as the sniffling and oft-abused Alfred, plays her small part exceptionally well, as do the other Players, whose near-wordless roles require remarkable agility and continually forceful expression...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | 5/5/1972 | See Source »

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