{Music the Editor*}[20th March 1991]

[Redbook8:352][19910320:0000]{Music the Editor*}[20th March 1991]

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The musical accompaniment to film has replaced the editorial voice in literature which (for example) used to say: ‘And now, dear reader, steady yourself for a terrible shock. You see that little old man selling papers on the corner? And the pretty girl walking towards him? In a few seconds she will be subjected to a crime so dastardly that it will shock you to the core; and his life will change for ever....’

*[Or perhaps, more nearly, the editorial voice?]

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