Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characters do not become repulsive--but the fault they share does. And Zweig radically alters one character, Volpone's toady Mosca, to further emphasize the central theme of money. As his name suggests, in Johnson's original he is a "fly"--engagingly ingenious and quickwitted, but as unscruplous as the rest. In the course of Zweig's play, however, he turns from his original admiration of Volpone's riches and wiles to disgust at the power of money; having inherited his master's fortune, he chooses in the closing scene of the play to share it with the people...
...make the exhibit "light and engaging," the pavilion will> de-emphasize industry. Working with the theme, "Creative America," Renkine said that the exhibits will include temporary art--painting, sculpture, and photography--well as demonstrations of new technology and a multi-been film. Another highlight will be a lunar exhibit, a visualization of the 1970 Apollo flight, to be reached by an 85-foot escalator...
...Buckingham's set is cramped and jury-rigged, even considering the difficulties of setting up in the House dining hall. The lighting often casts shadows over the actors' faces and is slow coming on. One technical touch is superb, however: a snatch of wistful carnival music used as the theme for the glass menagerie...
...last piece of fiction, "The Sentimental Journey of Arthur Friedberg," is simply clumsy and banal. David Ansen blows a paragraph of dull theme into several pages of dull plot...
...Lord is a costume epic with an unusual theme. Its hero, quite as usual, is Charlton Heston, playing a misspent 11th-century knight who falls heir to a small and dreary Norman fief on the coast of the North Sea. "There's a strangeness in this place," Heston remarks. And his servant Richard Boone nods sagely, like a man who knows a godforsaken frontier town when he sees one. Heston's castle is a tacky stronghold, one lone tower surrounded by sullen villagers and under constant threat of attack by swarms of large blond barbarians wearing identical wigs...