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...content. Three Thirty Five includes a complete record of only one activity: sports. Reading the book, one would hardly know that Harvard has a drama center, film makers, other publications, blacks, or any interesting Faculty. As far as I can tell, the book's motif is patterned after the Whole Earth Catalogue -but, in reality, Three Thirty Five is a tawdry collection of unrelated odds-and-ends...
When the Romans introduced their rich ways to England, the Britons scorned these foreigners "who bathe in warm water, eat artificial dainties." This establishes a motif that runs through Miss Pullar's history: puritans v. orgiasts. But gradually the natives came round. By the time those other invaders, the Vikings, had introduced their rollicking ways, canons had to be published forbidding drinking in church...
Line, not mass, is the essence of Michelino's style. A melodious tracery of arabesques invests every shape he depicted, tying them together. Pattern delighted him. The way he selected a flower as a motif and set his figures against a whole screen of them, the petals interlocking with reverse shapes of gold leaf, was a master stroke of decorative invention that seems both to look back to Moorish tile work and predict art nouveau...
...expect to give meaning and substance to the concept of participatory democracy. It will be basically a socialist motif, except that not all private property will be banned...
...only from Aldrich; it involves a somewhat disconcerting dog-food TV commercial. Aldrich also never loses sight of the fact that the legend he is simultaneously destroying and recreating in this work may not be long for this world. It is not surprising, then, that death is a central motif of Lylah Clare. Every character is self-destructive in the extreme; in some cases, this is also combined with terminal cancer or a fondness for playing recklessly with guns and cars...