Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea of a feminine sensibility-fluffy, vaporous, pink-and-white-retreats before most of the work in this show, the sense of female experience does not. That theme is announced almost at once, in the work of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652), the daughter of a well-known Tuscan painter, who became, as Nochlin puts it, "the first woman in the history of Western art to make a significant and undeniably important contribution to the art of her time." Gentileschi's Susanna and the Elders (1610) is a work of staggering precocity, painted when she was 17. Beauty spied...
...other words, Chirac is playing with fire. Although by no means a fascist, he has obviously decided to cash in on France's neo-bonapartist tradition of authoritarian appeals and vehement nationalist political drama. Throughout his rally speech, Chirac played on deGaulle's favored theme of "independent nationalism." In a bombastic piece of oratory reminiscent of deGaulle, he called on "free men who want to shape their history with their own hands...
...LAST few years, popular culture has discovered a new theme. From looking again and again at the individual's struggle to destroy the establishment in books like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and movies like Wild in the Streets, writers and movie-makers have turned to looking at what happened to the idealists who thought in the '60s that there was really going to be a revolution in our lifetime. Books like Ann Beattie's Chilly Scenes of Winter or Medved and Wallechinsky's What Really Happened to the Class of '65 detail the survivor's attempts...
...study and test the feasibility of a more creative use of some of the "offshoots" of the regular House system through the utilization of them as "theme" Houses, focusing on language, art, or a special area of concentration. This system would provide an alternative living arrangement for those who might prefer...
...many other hit songs; of heart disease; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The only one of his family's nine children without musical training, Washington went to Hollywood in 1929 to write songs for the new talkies. He won two more Oscars: for writing the words to the theme of High Noon and for helping to write the words and music for the score of Pinocchio. Among his other memorable lyrics are those he wrote for The Nearness of You and Tommy Dorsey's old theme song. I'm Getting Sentimental over...