Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dialogue aims to display the character's materialism with irrelevant wisecracks, most of which are not too amusing and some of which are completely unessential. If Hart cut down the jokes and added to the credibility and development of his central issue, Play would serve him and his theme better...
...soon it was clear that the Man from La Mancha theme will be like Auld Lange Syne by mid-season. The only merriment for Boston rooters came in the ninth inning...
Another pet theme of the NRA--as expressed in the May 1967 American Rifleman--is that gun laws disarm the law-abiding citizen and leave him defenseless against armed criminals, who don't obey gun laws...
...ways. For besides the nominal unity conferred on an anthology by covers and critics; the material in the Advocate manifests a troubling coherence. Many of the pieces are acts of prudence. In the best of them this becomes a systematic, if not willful, deference to modernity in choice of theme, form and language. In the worst it appears as the author's profound unwillingness to make himself responsible for his work. These failings, moreover, seem to be endemic to the Advocate. An issue of the Lion Rampart, also published this week, was bolder on every level...
...only human in the film HAL proves a greater murderer than any of the men. Returning 2001 to the theme of inherent destruction in social and technological progress, Kubrick's chilling last-shot-before-the-intermission (a shot from HAL's point-of-view, lip-reading a conversation of Bowman and Poole deciding to dismantle him if the mistake is confirmed) suggests the potential of machine to control man, the ultimate reversal of roles in a situation where man makes machines in his own image. HAL's success is partial; he murders Poole, then three doctors on the ship...