3/7/2023 0 Comments Snappy comeback crosswordFrom Max STEINER to RuPaul (" SASHAY Away"), from VELVETY KATSU to highlighted CHEEKBONEs, this puzzle had a lot of fun things going on. I really liked how SNAPPY and wide-ranging it was. There's much better news where the fill is concerned. If there is an element of the theme that I have failed to appreciate, please, let me know. But I can't imagine even an inveterate gambler would find this theme that compelling, let alone challenging. So maybe I'm not the right audience for this puzzle. I have had to walk through them a couple times to get to concerts, but I have never voluntarily spent time there. whatever drama the parentheses were supposed to be creating felt oddly condescending. Like the game was being taught to a child. Also, the climactic "21!" is kind of undercut by occurring in the clue for the very non-triumphant phrase BREAKS EVEN. the revealer has already told me the game I'm playing, and the "cards" are highlighted inside their answers so I can see them and. I guess those clues are trying to create some narrative energy, but. And then there's the unnecessary remedialness of the parenthetical parts of the theme clues. Further, the "cards" aren't particularly well embedded, in that only two of them (TWO and SEVEN) break across two words, the way a "hidden word" should, ideally. You have "winnings" for sure, but AMOUNT WON feels like a line on some imaginary receipt. Zero strong associations with the casino. But whatever is gained by having the theme be tighter in that way is surely lost by the fact that the phrases themselves just aren't that strong, particularly the first two: PLACES A BET (arbitrary 3rd-person verb phrase, à la "EATS A SANDWICH") and AMOUNT WON, which feels really flaccid and weird. I see that those phrases are themselves gambling phrases, so that makes the theme somewhat tighter than a normal "hidden words"-type puzzle would be (usually such "hidden words" appear in completely non-thematic phrases). The cards total 21, the highest score in the game, so presumably you "win" in the end, but it feels like there must be some element that I'm missing, since merely putting four cards that total 21 in some phrases doesn't seem. I mean, to be clear, I understand the BLACKJACK concept perfectly. Admittedly, I can't think of very many places I'd less like to be than a casino, so there's an inherent topic aversion, but even so I can usually appreciate or at least understand a basic card theme. I have to admit that I don't quite understand this one. In addition, Steiner scored The Searchers (1956), A Summer Place (1959), and Gone with the Wind (1939), which ranked second on the AFI 's list of best American film scores, and is the film score for which he is best known. Besides his Oscar-winning scores, some of Steiner's popular works include King Kong (1933), Little Women (1933), Jezebel (1938), and Casablanca (1942), though he did not compose its love theme, " As Time Goes By ". , and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning three: The Informer (1935) Now, Voyager (1942) and Since You Went Away (1944). Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO Pictures and Warner Bros. He is referred to as "the father of film music ", as Steiner played a major part in creating the tradition of writing music for films, along with composers Dimitri Tiomkin, Franz Waxman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann, and Miklós Rózsa. Steiner worked in England, then Broadway, and in 1929, he moved to Hollywood, where he became one of the first composers to write music scores for films. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, proficient at composing, arranging, and conducting, by the time he was fifteen. Maximilian Raoul Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian composer and conductor who, threatened with internment in Germany during WW1, fled to England before emigrating to America in 1914 and became a celebrated composer for film and theatre.
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