Word: wordlessly
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...over the insensitivity of your family's ordinary conversations? Do you remember trying to break the ties of father-emulation or mother-dependence without breaking from your parents completely? Do you remember the growing fearfulness of watching a girlfriend or boyfriend fading away on the other side of a wordless gulf? Maybe not; but no one can read through these accounts without being thrown back into a re-examination of some almost forgotten personal episode. The accounts naturally evoke comparison from one's own past. This book has very definite side effects...
...form of the film is exasperating. The story is told in an implied flashback, with numerous flash-forwards to the narrator intercut with the main action. These do not make a discernible comment, though the wordless Michael Redgrave is such an expressive actor that some of the brief cuts are affecting. The film is not as expressive...
...film; ballet, as always, speaks for itself. From time to time the camera leaves the animals to visit their creator, a young and pretty child who rebels against her antifeminist era with quill pen and paintbox. Here, too, all is pantomime; the ticking of the clock, the stern, wordless parents, the rustle of mice in a cage all express volumes...
Mamma (Fran Lopate) plays her wordless role with the benign warmth of melted mozzarella. The ageless Mediterranean resignation on Jack's face is so perfect that it is hard to believe he can look any other way. Two weeks ago, he took an ad in the show-business trade journal, Variety, showing him grinning. The headline asks: WHO'S THE GUY IN THE ALKA-SELTZER COMMERCIAL? IT'S JACK SOMACK...
Lerner's poem is more abstract, impressionistic, a disjointed account of an apocalyptic evening in a bar in New York, which "has been Idle Wild/since you've been gone...." The poet tries to get to, tries to explain "a world that's really wordless" but everything is fractured...