Word: themes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Levy suggested his Bills might also feign strategic injuries in the American Conference championship game. Fearing a sham, commissioner Pete Rozelle issued a fuzzy decree on "the spirit of the rules" and momentarily turned Wyche's ingenuity into an offsetting penalty. Cincinnati beat Buffalo anyway, 21-10, but the theme of Super Week was established. Some 2,200 journalists, double the U.S. press corps at the Moscow summit, will be concerned with ethics...
...Barr (The Big Blue). Redgrave's competitor for the young man's attentions is the dizzy belle (Julie Covington). All three are compelling. Redgrave, her heartbreaking vulnerability ever mingled with steely determination, reinforces her reputation as perhaps the greatest actress in the English-speaking world. Williams said that the theme of all his plays is how society destroys the sensitive nonconformist. In Hall's gifted hands, that destruction becomes unforgettable...
Obsession was the theme of the trial. Just as Hortense Gabel searched relentlessly for a job for her only daughter, the still attractive Myerson, 64, was obsessed with the fleshy Capasso, who is serving three years in federal prison for income tax evasion. Born in 1945 -- the year Myerson was crowned Miss America -- Capasso came along during Myerson's losing Senate bid in 1980, helped her pay off campaign debts, bought her a Mercedes and a fur coat, and gave her the run of his Long Island mansion. All was seeming paradise until Nancy Capasso found out about Bess...
...Year of Living Dangerously. Like many a successful artist, Williamson apparently discovered that only part of his soul was committed to artistic integrity. The rest lusted for wealth, fame, power and a sweeping view of Sydney's harbor. This confrontation with the dark side is the central theme of Emerald City, Williamson's winsomely cynical comedy of manners among the media hucksters Down Under. It is now enjoying a deft, engaging production off-Broadway...
Plays can prove themselves to be lasting literature in two ways. Some, like Hamlet, show a protean adaptability that allows each interpreter to find a different theme or message. Others, like Our Town, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a robustly funny Broadway revival that opened last week, say much the same things in every production, yet manage to do so with a seemingly inexhaustible freshness. Actors and directors, predictably, tend to prefer the protean kind of play, because it gives them greater opportunity to display creativity and intelligence. But audiences can be just as happy with the second...