Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REHEARSAL. Purity corrupted is a theme that obsesses French Playwright Jean Anouilh. In this prismatic and bitter comedy, a count's true love for a governess is destroyed by some sophisticated drawing-room criminals...
Jennie joins Gypsy and Sophie as another of Broadway's disenchanted evenings devoted to the theme that showbiz is woebiz. The latest musical fictionally disinters the early life and hard times of the late Laurette Taylor on the tank-town circuit, and mopes over her domestic ordeals with an alcoholic, footloose, hot-air impresario of a husband. Amid the encircling gloom, only Mary Martin shines with an inextinguishable light...
...East Side, West Side (CBS), which stars George C. Scott as a Manhattan social worker. Well written and excellently acted, the show is neither maudlin nor melodramatic, having disciplined dialogue and high plausibility. The first segment was about a prostitute who was also a devoted mother, a theme that could have been treated with cheap sensationalism, but was presented instead as a sensitive and unsentimental examination of moral ambivalences...
...sequence. To emphasize an idea, he brutally amputates an episode in mid-speech and lets a phrase fall through the mind like a severed hand. To retard a rhythm or invite a second thought, he serves up a fade so slow it seems like a memory. To enrich his theme and variegate his texture, he abruptly interjects a two-minute "quote" from another movie and later for the same reasons rabbets in some paragraphs of Edgar Allan Poe. To check and jumble the flow of the story, he chops it into twelve curt chapters, each labeled like a folder...
...editors of the Advocate did not plan this issue around a single theme, but the magazine's tone is consistent. The tone has to do with sex--sloppy sex. If there is a puddle school of Cambridge photography, there seems also to be a crotch school of Cambridge writing. The old pendulum of emphasis has swung with a vengeance in the past few decades from Victorian modesty to paperback love; it has not been a desirable move. A passage like, "I learned my first great lesson in love one afternoon when I came upon my mother curled in a corner...