Word: motif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...football fields, which sports computer-controlled water chambers that empty out in a torrent of 4-ft. waves simulating ocean surf. High above on Mount May Day teeters a replica of a wrecked fishing boat that periodically spouts a spray of water. In keeping with the typhoon motif, one artfully ramshackle building has a motorboat impaled on the roof...
...graduated from the college of Cliff- Hanger U. I ought to have paid tuition." Spielberg's camera style neither misses a trick nor reveals how it's done. See how he cues the change of a Zeppelin's course by the shadow scampering across a cocktail glass; watch a motif of cigarette lighters carry complicity from one character to another. Like a fine old haunted castle, his film has secret staircases of suspense, revolving panels of plot...
...devil make her do it? Who cares? Don't try to read too much into every frog, dog and December Bee motif in Woman in Mind. It's just fun to watch. Even sober...
SHATTERED illusions has become the motif of the month. The illusion that Blankie and I would be together forever--cruelly shattered. The illusion that my idyllic life as a sophomore would never end--destroyed...
...Genet in paint. So too with the "disasters" and the electric chairs of the early and mid-'60s, which are truly awful in their curt, grainy enunciation of the facts of casual or ceremonial death. The sign on the wall of the death chamber -- SILENCE -- provides an essential motif of Warhol's imagination, and it was hardly an accident of gesture that his best-known self-portrait has his finger on his lips...