Word: zithers
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...last 18 years? he demanded. He taunted the Democrats and labor for invading Ohio to dictate to the voters, challenged the unwilling Ferguson to platform debates, visited factories during working hours and got himself photographed with grinning workmen. In the voice that often sounds like a twanging zither, he replied to Averell Harriman in kind: "Until his conversion of a few years ago, Mr. Averell Harriman was one of those most sympathetic to Soviet Russia and Joe Stalin. To him, as to President Truman, Joe Stalin was 'Good...
...same question might be asked of Stevens' poems, most of which begin to fade as soon as they are read. But though they resist the memory as well as the intelligence, their delicate, twangy music-as full of surprises as a zither-sometimes delights the ear. Few living poets can be as vivid and as vague, both at once...
...democracy v. dictatorship argument, the picture seems to take place in a political vacuum. Its revolutionary mob scenes are too studied, and its attempt to have a single guitar carry the musical score (in imitation of The Third Man's zither) produces nondescript results. Yet, as his first directing effort, it shows promise for Novelist Brooks (The Brick Foxhole). Best scene: the condescending dictator and his friends turning squeamish as they watch Grant in a dress rehearsal of the brain operation...
...with the ludicrous, the casual with the bizarre. But the central characters are not mere pawns in a melodrama; they are motivated people who speak grown-up dialogue and feel contagious emotions. The film's most original touch: a unique musical sound track using only a hauntingly twanging zither* which speaks more tellingly than a full symphony orchestra...
...Danube tells a story of its own, a shot of a cat licking a man's shoe becomes a chilling premonition of shock. Reed gets a grotesquely comic sequence out of an eerie four-year-old boy leading a street crowd in pursuit of Gotten while the accompanying zither jangles like a nickelodeon piano. At every turn, he exploits the hulking shadows and wet, back-lighted cobblestones of Vienna at night. Cameraman Robert (Odd Man Out) Krasker gives beautiful expression to Reed's photogenic tricks, e.g., as a train chugs out of the station, nothing is seen...