Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become increasingly evident in recent months that the dominant theme of the U.S. presidential campaign may not be Viet Nam, the economy, or any one of a score of infinitely complex problems. Instead, it will probably be the elusive issue of "law and order." Last week all three major candidates vied to put forward their own shadings of a law-and-order policy, almost to the exclusion of other questions facing a troubled nation. Once, the term might have been used in all innocence to describe the minimal conditions necessary to maintain a democratic society. No longer. Today...
...Rock Singer Jackie Lomax, 24, in a driving, bluesy delivery of a Harrison song, Sour Milk Sea. Then there is the 113-year-old Black Dyke Mills Band from the Yorkshire town of Queensbury. Producer McCartney decided that their traditional brass sound would be just right for Thingumybob, a theme that he and Lennon wrote for a weekly London TV show...
...crossexamination, defense attorneys hammered away at the theme that causality cannot be proved by statistics. They insisted that so long as no one knows how thalidomide actually works inside the human system, it is impossible to forge a link between the drug and a child's malformation. Lenz answered that thalidomide has been shown to cause phocomelia in rhesus and other monkey species in which the condition does not occur naturally. For doctors to seek comparable proof in man would be at least unethical and in most countries illegal. Said Lenz: "You are demanding a kind of scientific perfectionism...
...gravitational field exerts enough force to draw every scene toward her. But despite Zita's undoubted appeal to dreamy young girls, an interesting young star and a grand old pro are not enough to support yet another tremulous version of the girl-in-a-woman's-body theme. Director Robert Enrico tries to lend his slender scenario some contemporary relevance by forcibly inserting a variety of fashionable camera techniques and casting a Negro Maoist. Though his color photography begins effectively-notably in Zita's terror-glazed recollections of the Spanish Civil War-it ends by stifling...
...agencies, including Foote, Cone & fielding, TWA's shop since 1956, spent months of work and more than $1,000,000 to land the business. The winner? None other than Foote, Cone, which won the day with a campaign built around TWA's current "Up, up and away" theme...