Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well that ends well? The question is asked too often and too clumsily by a script that often muddles a magnificent theme and by principals who act as if they were reading the daily yoghurt-production report on Radio Bucharest. Yet in the film's final scene, the question is put again with inquisitorial ferocity. Reunited with his wife at last, the hero finds her a middle-aged ruin, with skin like cracked mud and a rapist's baby in her arms. In her eyes he sees the wreck that horror and hardship have made...
...favorite theme is O What a Wonderful World. "Life is a choice between goods--not between good and evil," he pronounces with genteel optimism...
...WILD DUCK. The destruction wrought by an integrity that is more cruel than compassionate is the theme of Henrik Ibsen's drama about a determined idealist who enters a household that is constructed on compromise and held together by gentle illusions. Played competently by the APA repertory company...
BYRDLAND (Columbia). As one of the first importers of bossa nova, Charlie Byrd still likes to toss off a samba or two on his amplified guitar, and he can pluck soul from folk-blues like Work Song, but mostly he keeps up a sophisticated patter with pop hits (Theme from "Mr. Lucky") and old ballads (I'll Be Around...
BAROQUE SKETCHES (Columbia). Some imaginative and energetic forays in the boundary land between jazz and the classics by the lyrical Flugelhorn of Art Farmer and a big "baroque orchestra" bright with brasses. The mixed company of composers includes Chopin, Albéniz and Sonny Rollins (Alfie's Theme) along with Bach (Air on the G String and Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring). Pretty wiggy...