Word: motif
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...Blue was, as Goossen points out, a predictive work. Its curves, both supple and spare, would become one of the marks of Kelly's style. The blue "door" in the middle - physically enclosed by the lip of white relief around it - would, in a different way, become another motif. Kelly's mature painting is very much a matter of cut and constriction. Shape burgeons across the canvas, brushing against its edges in such a way that within the bald format there is no dead space. Kelly's paintings are pervaded by a subtly indicated force, a sense...
frilly pink motif, TV set for watching soap operas, shoebox filled with eye makeup, copies of Seventeen magazine...
...treat this beautiful, cultured and bitchy woman who is thrust into the hands of outlaws. He chooses the easiest way out. Her enticing sexuality is expressed through the constant threats of rape, talk of rape and rape attempts which weigh down the film like a tedious motif each time it turns its attention to Miles...
...roll in the grass. One of Dillinger's gang steals a car from two young lovers, too preoccupied to notice, just as the Barrow gang did. Dillinger's violence is as bloody as Bonnie and Clyde's, its accents and clothes as realistic. Dillinger's blatant theft is the motif of the vengeful cop, relentlessly pursuing the outlaws, finally ambushing them with as little respect for human life as the cheapest crook...
...that its composer David Cope has mellowed since the time he wrote "Yes," his most famous piece. Gone are the color slides and Moog tapes of that multi-media effort; added are eleven string players who contrast with the wind ensemble. Bypassing serialism in favor of a three-note motif, "Streams" emphasizes texture and unusual playing techniques. The required virtuoso percussion work came off well; the winds ruslted and the strings glid. The Cambridge fire house unwittingly added aleatoric effects, and a good time...