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...white man's blues, country music deals with the stunted aspirations of a social class caught between a determined pride and an even more determined poverty. Out of their bitterness, they perceive the world as cruel and unforgiving, hence the recurring motif of a country boy helplessly tangled in tragic events he neither caused nor wanted. Often the events center on a woman, either the unfaithful wife or the seductress who doesn't mention her husband until he is already coming at the interloper with a broken bottle. A Hank Williams song says it best...
...counter-culture with starred-and-striped pants, ties, ashtrays, shaving mugs, pillowcases, pens and even, in the most tasteless exploitation of all, toilet paper. Manhattan's Earthra Gift Shop does well with its Old Glory cigarette lighters (made in Japan). Jeans West, started 18 months ago, uses the flag motif on T shirts, vests and other items; the owners expect to gross $10 million in their second fiscal year. "Old Glory," says Vice President Ben Serebreni, "is here to stay." Thus far, Manhattan Clothier Steve Goldberg's Naked Grape boutique has sold 36,000 flag shirts to retailers across...
...reviewer of Professor X's (Daniel Boorstin) The Sociology of the Absurd [April 13] missed what is probably the most delightful point of satire against society found in the book: the dedication "To Dick and Gloria Dorspn-Motif No. D132." Professor Dorson is director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, and D132 refers to a unit of classification-the motif-used by folklorists in breaking down tales into component parts for analysis. Motif No. D132 is "transformation...
...underlying motif of the play is madness. The government is mad. The police are mad. Psychiatrists are mad. By extension, the modern world is mad. It is not such a new idea. What is wonderfully refreshing is that Joe Orton has such mad, mad fun with...
...which Sartre wrote into the role. Norma Levin had surely the most difficult assignment as Electra. She captured the guilelessness of Sartre's very ordinary, very energetic heroine; she also got to speak some of Sartre's most beautiful set-pieces, the little speeches of reminiscence which form a motif in the play...