Word: motif
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Four women sit alone in a cottage trading stories about their marriages, while they wait for their husbands to return. Each of these flashbacks deals with blighted love that springs to life once more, surviving infidelity, unwed pregnancy and simple loss of interest. To complete this motif of regeneration, the picture ends as the teen-age sister of one of the wives elopes with her lover, starting the cycle once again...
...Navy Medal of Honor is not only inelegant, it does not even hang gracefully from its ribbon. The Bronze and Silver Stars are almost childish in design, and the propeller motif of the Distinguished Flying Cross looks like the work of a mechanic. Though the Legion of Merit is better, even it seems shoddy compared to France's Legion of Honor...
...NASA will say who is responsible for Commander Shepard's D.S.M., but that perhaps is a blessing. One side of the medal shows a planet and satellite-a motif that any schoolboy might have thought up. On the other side is the inevitable laurel wreath. As for the lettering, Designer Henry Hart of the Smithsonian Institution has just one word: "Atrocious...
Broadway plays often start wrapping fads. The King and I roused interest in wrappings with an Oriental motif. My Fair Lady brought Victorian wrappings out of designers' files. The company hopes to pick up something from Camelot...
...stature of Brecht, Giradoux, Pirandello, and Anouilh is one which Bentley explains in terms of the role theater plays in American society. "In this country, the theater is for amusement, which puts the author at a great disadvantage. Significant theater is written to be taken seriously." This is a motif to which he returns frequently. "Men like Hemingway and Faulkner write novels, because they know that novels will be taken seriously. But the play in this country that is both serious and popular is a real rarity...