Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quiet street in Wilmington, Tarr, Crump, and Ginsburg seem anxious to get on to other things. For instance, there are the 200 page movie script and 30 capsule plots for a T.V. situation comedy that Crump's roommate, John P. Bochner '66, has written on the match theme. Ginsburg is Bochner's agent, and he is now trying to get both the movie and the T.V. series produced. From the "fabulous contacts". Tarr says were established throughout the country this summer, the corporation is beginning to inundate the continental U.S. with offices. There are professionals--lawyers, researchers, public relations firms...
...second approach would have smacked very much of a cheap trick, for most of the time the actors would parody their parts--which would not be hard. Occasionally the masks would have fallen off. This too would have echoed a theme of the play: pretense vs. reality. The effect would have been outrageous. At one point last night Ellery Akers (Lucille) and Peter Johnson (Blanchard) came close to this style. they played the beginning of the third act like an episode out of "I Love Lucy." But the characters never dropped their masks. Their real emotions never became apparent...
MONSTER (Verve) contains some threadbare titles (Goldfinger, the theme from The Ministers, St. James Infirmary), but the arrangements by Oliver Nelson are highly charged by the most electric of the electronic jazz organists, Jimmy Smith, with the powerful help of a reed and woodwind band...
...SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE (Verve). Mrs. Gilberto adds another LP to the family, this time featuring American standards like Fly Me to the Moon and Day by Day. The title song is the love theme from The Sandpiper, which is infectious when hummed but sickening when sung: "A teardrop kissed your lips...
First published in Paris in 1930 in a Russian emigré review, the tale seems direct enough at surface level. Smurov, a young Russian emigré in Berlin, anxiously searches among his acquaintances for the identity of which the Revolution stripped him. This is a recurrent Nabokovian theme; he has never forgiven the Soviets for appropriating his childhood. But Nabokov could not-and cannot-resist sending his skill off in any and all directions. A simple exercise in homesickness is made to bear many other burdens, and its surface conceals, or seems to conceal, hidden meanings. Among them...