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...from the circa-850 Sic gloria Domini, in plainsong style, to J. S. Bach's sophisticated Prelude and Fugue in B Minor. Appropriately enough, the vast range of compositions are played on ancient and venerable Swiss instruments: the oldest resides in the church of Notre-Dame-de-Val-ere in Sion, Switzerland, and was built around 1390. The elegant simplicity of old organ music underscores the fallacy that complications must mean progress...
...light beams, thus activating eight loudspeakers that, hidden in the uprights, rumble and reverberate like a blighty Wurlitzer. Each of 144 electric eyes paired in opposing scales from high to low along the length of La Machine controls a musical tone. It was possible to pick out Féere Jacques on the gizmo; impromptu boiler-factory blues was a far simpler tune to produce...
...those scenes in which the Ripper, swathed in the sort of corpse-grey fog the last century called a "London particular," glides up to a luckless trollop, and with a knife at least as big as the minute hand on Big Ben opens the poor girl from 'ere to 'ere. At such moments Hill hoses the screen with such a preposterous torrent of catchup that gross horror becomes Grand Guignol, and even the squeamish should concede that his sense of humor is simply ripping...
Penelope. "Whe-ere can I find the la-adies room?" quavers a dear little old lady who smiles like Grandma Moses as her palsied little paw presents a pistol that is possibly somewhat larger than the little old lady herself...
Alfie. "Oi'm 'ere," says Alfie. "In the flesh." That's Alfie, dead to rights. Tall, blond and (barring a little latent acne) handsome, Alfie is a mildly repulsive sort of ponce charming from Eastcheap who can't be sure he's Don Juan until he's done...