Word: themes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...record's producer is Steven Gottlieb, 32, a Harvard Law School graduate and erstwhile corporate lawyer who four years ago produced two albums of TV- show theme songs titled Television's Greatest Hits. Total sales: more than 1 million. Gottlieb does not take his records completely seriously, however. Says he: "It's like musical candy." And the sales are pretty sweet...
...second, to stick with the toilet bowl theme, was the evil Mower toilet paper man from hell...
...best defense is a good offense. To the outside world, the result has often looked more offensive than defensive. Gorbachev and Akhromeyev tried to convince Crowe that something fundamental has changed. "Nonoffensive defense" is a key part of the vocabulary of Soviet "new thinking," and it was a major theme of Crowe's tour. The U.S.S.R. would launch its missiles, he was told, only in retaliation, never in a first strike. Near Minsk he observed an armored unit practice "tactical withdrawal" (i.e., retreat) in response to an enemy attack. At the Voroshilov General Staff Academy in Moscow, where senior officers...
...oldest machines, all the games in the show can be played by visitors (the $5 admission charge -- $2.50 for kids -- gets you a packet of five tokens). Most of the greats and near greats are here: Space Invaders, the 1978 hit that popularized the genre's single most enduring theme, warfare in space; Donkey Kong, whose endearingly quirky scenario had a little man racing up a skyscraper to rescue a girl from the clutches of a giant gorilla; and Tron, the only video game that was more popular than the movie that inspired it. Special attention is paid to technological...
...behind all of this is the stellar direction of Weir. He may not have built St. Andrew's, taught Williams how to act, written the Beethoven symphony or given universal appeal to the age-old theme, but Weir's dexterity in pulling all of those elements together in Dead Poet's Society must be commended...