Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picked the stage settings, including two 40-ft.-high portraits of himself. He selected his own words, "Let us continue . . ." as the convention's motto. He chose Hello, Dolly! sung to the words "Hello, Lyndon!" as the convention's theme song. He dictated the schedule and rejiggered it whenever he felt like it. He directed all the performers, worked to sustain suspense over his choice of a running mate, added excitement with his own Atlantic City appearances...
Wasp Power. For the generation of Americans that grew up hi-ho-ing with Silver, the show's theme music, the galloping part of the William Tell Overture, will always be more Ranger than Rossini. And Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee inevitably conjures up visions of Brit Reed, alias the Green Hornet, who when adventure-bound was trailed by a string orchestra playing his tune. Do-Gooder Brit also had the only automobile on radio that ran on wasp power. The Hornet is one of the few oldies to show his age. "Sufferin' snakes...
Although other U.S. cartoonists contented themselves with single jabs at the vulnerable presidential ego, they harmonized on the obvious theme: a convention so thoroughly ringmastered by the President that all the non-surprises came out of his pouch or his hat (see cuts...
Meaningful Mood. The "other guy" was on the road last week for his first major stump speech since the nomination, and he seemed to be pursuing the something's-wrong theme with some success. Barry Goldwater's forum was a bunting-draped platform at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, where a shirt-sleeved crowd of 12,000 turned out for "Republican Day." For 32 minutes, Goldwater spoke under a broiling sun. But he was cooled repeatedly by applause and chants of "Yea, Barry...
Most at least are original scripts, even if the dominant theme-sex played for laughs-is hardly novel. The Wayward Stork gets its fun from artificial insemination, stars Hal March as a husband who is cuckolded by a test tube. Leslie Stevens, who wrote The Champagne Complex, plays the Oedipus complex for yucks in The Mother Image. The Iris Murdoch-J. B. Priestley farce A Severed Head, is a game of fast sex tennis from London; the players will include Joan Fontaine, Lee Grant and Jessica Walter. Divorce, American style, is viewed from the male standpoint in The Odd Couple...