Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perry finds some arresting images to underscore his theme. Beautiful Navajo rugs are spread out for an airing under the big sky as a cowboy works them over with a weirdly out-of-place vacuum cleaner; a brand-new Lincoln auto is pumped full of slugs from an ancient buffalo rifle. But Perry appears to distrust his taste for surrealism and settles too often for the merely slick. Similarly, McGuane, a highly regarded young novelist, tells us too little about the characters in this original screenplay. Rancho Deluxe might have been a film of considerable originality, something on the order...
...name suggests, the look is fashioned around the triangle, with its base at the shoulders and its apex at the waist. The triangular theme is emphasized by the skillful use of angular seams-accented in some models by piping and also reflected in the lapels and jacket points, even in the buttons. The trousers, in contrasting or complementary colors if the customer wishes, can be flared at the cuff. The double-or single-vented jacket, with its absence of external pockets and flaps, gives the wearer a slim, dashing look that would certainly be approved by Bond but never...
...Chorus Line, Michael Bennett, who may be a direct descendant of Terpsichore, has added to the dance vocabulary of the U.S. musical. He has made dance a central theme as well as a supremely exhilarating act. The chorus line is his symbol of mass anonymity: It is also his symbol of teamwork, with the emphasis equally distributed between team and work. Bennett distills one more element. Behind the faceless mass, there is a face; behind the dazzling precision of the dance, there is a terrifying vulnerability, not the false step of a foot but the crippling fall of a psyche...
...scene as a parallel to his vision of the "Burning of Los Angeles"--this is the holocaust. In his mind Tod sees the people in the mob linking their arms together, their faces transformed into ugly papiermache masks, while the soundtrack overlays the scene with incantations reminiscent of the theme of the green-skinned guards of the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. The whole thing is too inane to be believed...
Jackson said that when she spoke to Carlagna prior to her audition he failed to tell her that the "appropriateness" of her theme to the occasion would be a criteria for selection...