Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the deck of the little 350-ton Arbella plowing westward through the angry Atlantic to the Massachusetts coast in 1630, John Winthrop preached a sermon that struck the theme of what America in all its future years would seek to be. "Wee shall be," Winthrop prophesied, "as a Citty upon a Hill, the Eies of all people are uppon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a byword through the world...
Though the Soviets sent 200,000 soldiers into Czechoslovakia only five months ago, they professed outrage at the comparatively modest influx of 12,000 U.S. troopers. Tass, the Soviet news agency, attacked Reforger I as "a new provocative plot." Elaborating on that theme, Izvestia, Moscow's evening newspaper, warned that "the new military demonstration is directed at increasing tension in Europe." What bothers the Soviets most of all is that the war game will be held in Bavaria at the NATO maneuver site of Grafenwöhr -located only 30 miles from the Czechoslovak border...
...does omit one American target, however. At one point, Karina sets the theme of the movie by telling the tale of the man who had a brush with death and fled, only to meet it in his flight. Throughout the film, Godard leaves a trail of authors' names: Robert Louis Stevenson, William Faulkner, Jack London, Raymond Chandler. One name he fails to drop is that of the man who made the legend famous by basing a whole novel on it. He is John O'Hara, and his book was Appointment in Samarra...
Almost without exception, the press sessions centered around problems of money. For Nixon's men are businessmen--highly successful and generally self-made. Construction men, oil tycoons, and bankers dominate the Cabinet; and how to manage their great wealth while they are in office was a main theme of the appointee's appearances. John A. Volpe, destined to be Secretary of Transportation, plans to sell all his stock in his construction company--to his brother. Winton Blount, the new Postmaster General, made his money in construction too--largely from federal contracts. He will place his stock in a trust while...
Chabrol's camera creates and defines characters, theme, and content, able to articulate everything his characters cannot. His ability to do exactly what he wants is shown in the brutal climax of The Champagne Murders, a one-and-one-half minute montage of all the camera movements and color schemes that have previously dominated the film, which arrives at a shocking (Marnie-like) shot of unearthly colors and images foreign to it. In Les Biches, the soft lighting of the night scenes is as magnificant as any in film history, as are the time-compression montages of Frederique...