Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such an effort would also be in the spirit of the joint Soyuz-Apollo mission of 1975, whose main theme was mutual assistance in space. Besides, which would be more embarrassing: To ask the Russians for help, or to face possible casualties, billion-dollar indemnification suits and unforeseen political consequences if 85 tons of flaming fragments land in some sensitive region of the earth...
...nearing its end. Four weeks ago, as he left the Vatican for his annual summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo in the nearby Alban Hills, he told an aide: "We do not know if we will return and how we will return." On the first day of August, the theme recurred. Driven to the wine-making hamlet of Frattocchio to visit the grave of an old friend, he said to a knot of onlookers: "We hope to meet him after death, which for us cannot be far away." Five days later, on the Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ...
...illusions and alienation of American life. Medoff's vision is a dark one, and his play operates on a cynical, pessimistic energy. His characters are all trapped and they can't figure out how to escape. Medoff's message is that they never will. Attendant on this basic theme are chilling caricatures of conventional morality, marriage and love, as well as a wholesale shredding of the notion that human dignity has any meaning. The play depends heavily on characterization, and one senses that if someone filled in the background which is only hinted at in the dialogue, you'd understand...
...much of Britain's unemployment rate, now at 5.6% and rising. The Tories are heavily banking on polls showing that Britons, for the first time in a decade, appear to be more worried about joblessness than inflation. To be sure, the Conservatives will also hit hard on the theme that consumer prices have doubled after four years of Labor government. Meanwhile, the prim Mrs. Thatcher will keep up the brisk ideological tone she has given to Conservative policy since she took over as leader in 1975. Says she: "This will be a watershed election. The basic issue is liberty...
...second of three exhibitions designed to describe the links between Paris and three other capitals of modernist culture: New York, Berlin and Moscow. The project made a lame start with the Paris-New York show in 1977, a patchy curatorial bungle. It finds its feet with this exhibition. The theme is large: nothing less than the whole panorama of the German avant-garde in its most spiritual, subversive or idealist aspects, from the time of Kaiser Wilhelm II to that of Adolf Hitler. It embraces film, photog- raphy, architecture, industrial design and printing, as well as sculpture and painting...