Word: leitmotivs
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...Paris, what began as protest over sex-segregated dormitories ended in a general strike and very nearly brought down the government of Charles de Gaulle. Hallucination again, the decade's leitmotiv of illusion: now you see it, now you don't. For some days it looked as if France were in the grip of a revolution, everyone manning the barricades. The country came to a boil and then, just as quickly, cooled down to the status...
...Anybody who is anybody in New York and Washington takes it at least twice a week. Senators, football players, lobbyists, lawyers and bankers scuttle between their spheres of influence, elbowing one another at the gate for favored seats. In Nora Ephron's Heartburn, the shuttle serves as a leitmotiv of power. Complaining about the shuttle is the next best thing to flying it. "New York begins the moment you board the shuttle," sniffs Washington Lawyer Travis Brown. "It's dirty, noisy, rude and expensive...
...because we were struck by the fact that nations as diverse as Argentina, Britain and France are all seeking to sell off state-owned businesses and to promote free enterprise." Associate Editor John Greenwald, who wrote the main story in the section, adds, "The comeback of capitalism was a leitmotiv of the conference, and it is one of the significant developments of the 1980s. Governments everywhere, even in China, are finding that free enterprise is the way to develop their countries...
During the hearings, much time was devoted to a sober discussion of how the future needed to be managed, but the leitmotiv of Watergate also continued to be heard. Time after time, the events of the past were exhumed. This was perfectly proper, but it is not especially enjoyable to be the cause for the rebirth of the doctrine of guilt by association...
...trolls are quite droll. They are dressed in inky black frock coats and robes, their heads are chalk-white and they sport Miss Piggy snouts. The Troll King (Frederick Neumann) immediately recognizes Peer as a closet troll and lays down the primal law of trolldom, which is the leitmotiv of the entire play. As rendered in Rolf Fjelde's lyrical English versification, it goes...