But Jill was the witty cosmopolitan who gave running commentary that was like a voice-over narration from a Billy Wilder movie.

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With the absence of any dialogue, apart from very brief narration, it is assumed that most people know the story well.

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This divorce of narration from structure in Western architecture was confirmed in the early Renaissance (15th century), when humanists sought to elevate the status of architects, establishing the designer's control of every element of a structure, conferring an auteur dominance.

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