Word: leitmotifs
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Excerpts from President Eisenhower’s farewell address begin and punctuate the film, but one excerpt from that speech serves as the film’s leitmotif: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist...
...ratio of 12 to 1. Luckily, Judt argues, "for American policymakers, Europe's vulnerability was a problem, not an opportunity" and despite some proud grumbling, Western Europeans recognized that truth as Soviet-backed regimes grabbed power across Eastern Europe. The subsequent struggle between capitalism and communism is the leitmotif of postwar Europe until 1989, and Judt takes some choice shots at Western intellectuals enamored by the experiment in "real existing Socialism" playing out inside the Iron Curtain. "I come from a country where no one laughs any more, where no one sings," French poet Paul Eluard told an audience...
...Gabbana is more attuned to street trends. It has always been thus; ever since the street-smart Gabbana became entranced by Dolce's southern Italian roots and began embroidering upon that exoticism?the romance, the corsets?forcing Dolce to re-examine a Sicilian heritage that has become the leitmotif of the brand...
...inscrutability of truth is the film’s leitmotif. Bonilla’s newscast carries the ironic title “One Hour With the Truth,” but Bonilla and his team expend more effort seeking the sensational and the spectacular than fact checking, and by the time they develop a serious interest in the truth, events make its revelation impossible...
Lyrically, Doom’s leitmotif is, well, food. All the track names are culinary, and food metaphors are frequent in his intricately (some would say randomly) internally rhymed flows. What this fixation means depends on how much credit you give him. It could either be a simple, nonsensical way of unifying the album, showing that he can rap about absolutely anything, or it could be a comment on the state of hip-hop. With radio rap big on adolescent lyrics of sex and violence, is a Sesame Street-sampling song about cookies an attempt at out-immaturing Juvenile...