Word: motifs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deep throated brass added to the robustness characteristic of modernist Slavic composers, especially in the galloping allegro motto. The three fascinating andantes each brought back the dirge-like motif that characterized the first. In the latter two, the incorporation of bells over sometimes undulating, sometimes fluttering strings lent itself to the overall theme of exoticism...
...just work hard," Cohagan said. "We're not all that pretty, in keeping with the motif of my face...
...Advocate man starts with a simple motif of black uniwear. If a bodysuit is unavailable, a baggy pair of black chinos with a black turtleneck will suffice...
...longs for Hoffa's Teamsters to come in and give them mean lessons. But everyone's main function is to trigger special effects and lend scale to production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti's overweening sets, which sometimes quote wittily from the modernist tradition (Dada, etc.) but also overuse the pachyderm motif at the heavy heart of this disastrously miscalculated movie...
...drama has several simple, fierce motifs. One is Revenge and Counterrevenge (Newton's third law: For every atrocity there must be an equal and opposite atrocity). A second motif is Complete Denial (We did not do it; they did). Which yields the third theme: Everyone Is a Victim, which means of course that everyone is justified in committing any act. We-They. We victim; They did it. The dynamics of rage and outrage reverberate through the mountain forests and down the generations...