Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makes a hash of his already soppy theme when the leaders of the warring realms meet for a climactic duel of good magic v. bad. Bakshi has the kindly wizard of Montagar pull out a Luger and drill the evil sorcerer of Scortch...
...author seems to adhere to the idea that people under the age of forty-five use the words "yeh", "babe", and "Man" to punctuate every sentence at least twelve times, although there are some variations on this theme...
...Lucas clearly does not suffer from the kind of overweening ambition in artistic vision that has proven the downfall of so many of his young contemporaries in American cinema. His mission is to entertain, and if such an end involves resorting to a few old standards of dialogue and theme, then so be it. Star Wars will neither pose nor answer any metaphysical questions that will keep the moviegoer scratching his head well after he has returned to his abode. Quite frankly, it's been so long since a film like Star Wars came along--an uplifting slice of escapist...
...Creditors, which is being given a potent revival at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in Manhattan, Strindberg returns to this broody theme but with traces of self-mocking humor and shy tendrils of affection that lighten his customarily Stygian mood...
...ultimate test of the cast's ability and the audience's acceptance came in "Pavane", a sketch whose ideas and execution were totally abstract. Accompanied by a Faure theme, the actors represented the idea of birdlike flight using gently floating hands, joined arms and bodies, and bodies moving separately in graceful dance. The placid beauty of the scene was disrupted by the entrance of humanity as a hunter. She killed the birds, and then realized, too late, what she had destroyed. But much to the hunter's astonishment, the fliers are resurrected in spirit. the show ends, as the sketch...