Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, a combined chorale of Cambridge City Councilors, local businessmen (including Tommy), firemen, and professors emeritus will perform the "extended play" version of the smash-movie-theme song/rock-ballad "You Light Up My Life" on the steps of Widener Library on the Harvard University campus on any given Sunday. (Ha.) (A: The Pythagorean theorem; upper right molars (part A), prophylaxis (part...
...philandering, insensitive military man and the despair of his young wife who is dying of cancer through the eyes of their aloof, perceptive and frighteningly critical young daughter, Ana. At the same time, he includes scenes that give a more objective, more compassionate view of the unhappy parents. The theme of the child's view of adulthood is one that has made for some remarkable films (one thinks specifically of Truffaut), and Saurus's juxtaposition of perspectives promises to be particularly thought-provoking. Critics have been heralding soulful-eyed Ana Torrent, who plays the disillusioned daughter, as the most self...
...long: after all, who really wants to sit through nearly three hours of blood-line politics? The length is exaggerated by the quality of the emotional stasis. In the first act, the audience is served a lavish offering of greed, selfishness, jealousy, and fear; in the second act, the theme is greed, selfishness, jealousy, and fear; in the third act...you get the idea. There's very little variation or development, with the result that what ought to be a wrenching death-struggle is merely interesting in a nasty sort of way. And when everyone is so intriguingly abnormal...
What is especially good about this picture is that awareness of its main theme -the chancy, mysterious, unfair workings of mortality-is present, as it should be in the calculations of any healthy individual, but it appears as neither obsession nor nasty surprise. As Deerfield comes to realize, it is just part of life, something we must learn to accept, as some of us must learn to accept such happier but equally haphazard gifts-a brief romance, a sweet spring day. The comparison here must be to Love Story, in which mortality was dragged onstage-like Lord Olivier making...
...such work is to clean the mind and purge emotion; to construct a paradise of fundamental shape. Instead of the "handwriting" of brush marks, the clear flat surface; instead rf the knotted shadows of expressionism, the sunny rectangle-color as disembodied energy. Hygiene is an obsessive theme of constructivism: a design like J J Pieter Oud's Cafe Restaurant De Unie, 1925, is not to be imagined with a scintilla of city grime on it. Steel, chrome, tile, gloss paint were the rudiments of utopia, but, above all, glass. Paeans were written to the constructivist cathedral, the transparent tower...