Word: leitmotivs
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...minutes to an hour, but average 20 minutes. >Events in a dream happen about as fast as corresponding events in reality. > Occasionally a sleeper has a series of related dreams, like soap-opera installments, and sometimes a common thread runs through two or more dreams like a leitmotiv. >Outside events, such as the noise of opening and closing doors, are rarely incorporated in the dreamer's libretto...
...Fashioned Thanksgiving (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Charlton Heston, Eddie Foy Jr., Dick Button, Betty Johnson, Richard Kiley, Comedians Bob and Ray, and Gene Barry in a musical special with gobble gobble gobble as the leitmotiv...
...Wagner's operas are characterized by unendliche Melodie, Vaughan Williams' piece was written in unendliches Rezitativ-- and the closest thing to a leitmotiv is the broken and falling voice of the sea itself. The lines follow the natural intonations of the human voice as closely as possible, breaking only at rare intervals into a supple and more melodic arietta. The orchestration, furthermore, is designed only to emphasize the emotions of the speakers (the violins quaver in apprehension, the oboe sonorously heightens the women's grief...
...broadcast for the first time a new suite based on eight 20th Century ''folk tunes." The title: Jingles All the Way, No. 2.* The composer: Canadian Howard Cable. The themes: the Dentyne, Adam Hat, Colgate, Richfield Oil, Super Suds, Chiclets, Pepsodent singing commercials, plus the Mortimer Snerd leitmotiv from the Edgar Bergen show...
...Coming across" has been the leitmotiv of the Somoza regime. Cattlemen pay through import-&-export levies, marketing and slaughtering licenses. Gold-mine operators pay through special "taxes." Those who deal in mahogany, cinchona bark, milk, hides, tallow, cement and liquor pay in devious but nonetheless painful ways. Nicaraguans quip about an alphabetical list of Somoza rackets running from A to Z; they say that X stands for rackets unknown to the public...