Word: leitmotivs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ewing got. And now Sprewell, who is leading his bottom-seeded team in an unprecedented run toward the NBA finals, symbolizes the entire league. After a shortened season filled with the sloppiest play since the ABA, the Knicks are thriving on the wildness that has been this season's leitmotiv...
...gambling, decor counts: you may be feeding quarters into a slot machine and scarfing the $3.99 all-you-can-eat buffets--but, hey, you're in ancient Rome! MAX BAER JR., who played Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies, thinks Reno gamblers will enjoy the rags-to-riches leitmotiv of a $120 million Hillbillies-theme casino and hotel. His plans include Granny's Shotgun Wedding Chapel, Jethro's All You Ken Et Buffet and a giant oil derrick. City officials object to the idea...
...letter words galore -- but the conceit of Clerks is that foul-mouthed Jersey louts have elaborate vocabularies and pensive personalities. When Randal isn't shocking the frail with a list of porn-movie titles, he is offering such bartender wisdom to Dante as this: "That seems to be the leitmotiv of your life, ever backing down." Insults cascade into insights; obscenity snowballs into philosophy. Keeping the mind alert and the tongue sharp -- for the eloquent jerks in Clerks, that's more than a defense mechanism. It's a vocation...
...recalls. "They seemed to think we should be quiet and move on. But I look at the whole world through that lens now, and it gave me the theme of denial, of misguided forgetting, that runs through my work." The image of a dead or lost child became the leitmotiv of The Kentucky Cycle, his epic cycle of nine playlets, which seeks to tell the whole history of the U.S. through the lives of seven generations of three intertwined families living in the Cumberland region of Kentucky. The work is a bloodbath of family conflict and betrayal -- fathers killing sons...
Women's fantasies have changed, Friday maintains, since her 1973 book, My Secret Garden, in which the leitmotiv was submission. The 150 responses culled from the thousands Friday says she received this time demonstrate that there has been another sexual revolution. Women are now in charge, "on top," as the title says, in sexual posture and every other way. "I will never forget these women," vows Friday, "for they have swept me up in their enthusiasm and taught me, too. 'Take that!' they say, using their erotic muscle to seduce or subdue anyone or anything that stands...