Sentence:  Once again Hitchcock overturned the convention that music must remain subliminally in the background of a film: [...] in its quiet moments, it roams grimly wherever it pleases, investing the most banal images&mdash;a toy, [...] a <WSD>tchotchke</WSD> of folding hands&mdash;with dread. 
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