Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they hang on a clothesline, like two tired mutts after a night of running the streets. Jim teasingly snaps the line, flipping Lorry off, then as she grabs back on, he flies off. They notice the audience, and, startled, drop to all fours. A searchlight, and a James Bond theme song, come on; the two run, frightened. Then, left to the clothesline again, they show off for one another, primping like a tom and pussycat. There's only a pink-lit romantic interlude, then gunshots, and both fall to the ground, just as they had when teasing one another. They...
...campaign to stem what they saw as the Administration's recent "tilt" toward the Arabs (TIME, June 27). In the last several weeks about 1,000 letters a week urging stronger support for Israel have poured into the White House. Important Senators have chimed in on the same theme. Two weeks ago, when he got a phone call from White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, Rabbi Schindler began to discern a change in mood. Says he: "Then I knew that the question of American-Israeli relations had become a serious political matter, and they weren't treating...
...Paris-New York," the show of some 400 paintings and sculptures installed throughout the summer in Paris' new Tinkertoy Louvre, the Pompidou Center, is one of the most eagerly awaited modern art exhibitions in years. Its theme is epic. For 75 years, a deep current of cultural influence ran between France and America, bearing with it a rich mix of avant-garde nutrients. From 1900 to the end of World War II it flowed west, so that the forms of American modernism were almost all based on prototypes offered by the School of Paris from Cézanne...
...Texan Six-Flagship. At Gurnee, Ill., halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, is Marriott's Great America, with its ten-story-high carrousel. Not to be missed is Cedar Point, 50 miles west of Cleveland, one of the few old-style amusement parks to have made it into the theme...
There are many other purely local theme parks that rate a visit: notably Marriott's Great America in Santa Clara, Calif.; Nashville's Opryland, celebrating every mode of American music; and even the revivified Coney Island. They all offer an escape for a day-or two-into a world of myth and hokum, melody and bang-bang, insubstantial pageants and cloud-capp'd towers...