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Word: themes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...techinique is meaningless." Its deficiencies, he says, show up clearly when compared to Hitchcok's Psycho.. "There was a very deep psychological justification for the horror in this film," he says. "In the shower sequence, Hitchcock created a metaphor for human fear. He also conveyed cinematically the theme of the inability to relate to another person...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Vladimir Petric Teaches Film | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

From Washington, he flew to Los Angeles aboard an Israeli Boeing 707 -dubbed by American reporters the Bagel One. On Tuesday evening he addressed a cheering crowd of 11,000, who had paid $2 each to hear him, in the Los Angeles Forum. As usual, he struck a historical theme: "After we suffered persecution, humiliation, discrimination, deportation, burning, drowning, ultimate physical destruction, we draw the only proper conclusion. We must fight for our liberty because if we do not, no one will give it to us." Once again he stated his conviction that a greater Israel is justified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Barnstorming with Begin | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...consolations of faith, which will allow them "to live in fortitude and enjoy that happiness of the kingdom of which no human sorrow can deprive them." Another section, clearly aimed at clerical activists, declares that "priests, monks and nuns should not under normal circumstances participate in political struggle." The theme of the Puebla conference is how to evangelize an increasingly urbanized society, but opponents of the draft document contend that it fails to reflect a key post-Vatican II teaching: evangelization is inseparable from social concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Taking on The Vatican | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...more concentrated movement in Agon than in most 19th century full-length ballets." A similar claim could be made for many Balanchine works, and some created by his less active co-choreographer, Jerome Robbins. So, if nothing else, Misha will need stamina, and having performed Balanchine's Theme and Variations, he knows it: "The first time I danced it I thought my legs would drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Another Leap for Baryshnikov | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

While lacking Schorer's degree of sophistication, even soap operas long ago picked up the theme of nonexistent communication between husband and wife, which leads them to seek compensation in adultery, to reconstruct the past in nostalgic memories...

Author: By Giselle Falkenberg, | Title: Guaranteed Nothingness | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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