Word: motif
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...reputation in America rests on the strength of novels satirizing academic life. Small World, Changing Places, Nice Work--all these works parody the routine that Mr. Lodge himself followed as a professor of English at the University of Birmingham in England. Paradise News changes its focus from the academic motif, although not entirely, and the result is a pleasing, light work that will satisfy both Lodge fans expecting Morris Zapp and Phillip Swallow and readers not familiar with his career...
...band is an electronic spectacle of otherworldly sounds which are lucid one instant and garbled the next. The rhythms and tones layer and splay, reaching vertiginous crescendos then vanishing into something new, leaving a motif hanging in the air like the Cheshire cat's smile. But no sequencers or automatic drums are used--this is all done manually (albeit on mind-blowing pieces of musical technology). Think Tree plays these instruments, rather than simply programming them. The resulting combination of sophistication and sponteneity has earned Think Tree recognition on the local music scene and airplay on local radio, most notably...
...motif, Bryson uses the description of the drivers in different countries. He begins with France, claiming that "the pedestrian crossing lights have been designed with the clear intention of leaving the foreign visitor confused, humiliated, and if all goes according to plan, dead." He follows that by telling how blind people and old ladies in wheelchairs can cross without hesitation, but how when he crosses the drivers try to kill...
Douglas continued the plumbing motif. "We justgot a little house in Spain," he said. "It's afunky kind of house, doesn't have a bathroomupstairs--'nuf said...
...hard hit by the recession as any business. The Postal Service has one last chance to push the price up a penny, but it could hardly afford to be the Christmas stamp Grinch. So the two seasonal stamps -- one bearing a madonna, the other a secular winter motif -- will simply read 1991 and sell for whatever price is in effect by then...