Word: motif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese-born Kenzo Takada, 37. In his winter collection shown last April, Kenzo, as he calls himself, experimented with long, blousy sweaters meant to be worn over tights or leg warmers. Growing bolder this season, he has whipped up short gathered skirts topped with floral-print smocks. The motif is Tahitian-Polynesian, and Kenzo tops it off with aloha leis...
...Bach's incessant running up and down scales turned the first motif of "1-2-3-4-5-6," holding up each finger in fast succession, into breathless slapstick. Choreographer Black added other motifs one by one--slow-motion rolling, runner's ready position, broad glissades--and bumped one into the next in various combinations. Relying on the humor of incongruity, she popped the fast-counting fingers into the most inappropriate moments...
THERE'S A fleeing-frontrunner motif to the Big Race so far, and bruited in the pages of the liberal press are some distinct flight images: Ronald Reagan running hither and yon to regain $90 billion worth of lost ground; Gerald Ford running for daylight, daylight which for him must come in regular bursts on the first Friday and the 20th of each month with the proclamation of jobless and price index figures; and, most recently, Jimmy Carter running for cover from forays into his past...
Their distance is accented in the next verse through the repeated use of the word said--in Dylan's songs, when anyone says anything, they tend to be concealing their true feelings. This is the dominant motif of Positively 4th Street (You say I let you down/You know it's not like that...You say you lost your faith/But that's not where it's at); Most Likely You Go Your Way, And I'll Go Mine (You say you love me and you're thinking of me/But you know you could be wrong...); and 4th Time Around. It recurs...
...only open doors are to the right, in a sea of fake wood paneling. The doors lead into a bookstore where sits the receptionist, Sally Riley, amidst a welter of reprints, newsletters, magazines, bumper stickers, and books with screaming titles, blood dripping dramatically down the covers, chains a prominent motif, and "Conspiracy" figuring in almost every title. During a five-hour span when I was in and out of the bookstore, as I toured the Society's headquarters, nobody else ever came in to peruse the displays...