Word: themes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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November 8, 1987: They play the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team's theme song--"The Star Spangled Banner"--before the game and the Olympians send rockets glowing red white, blue and all 25 colors of the rainbow toward Harvard goalies John Devin and Michael Francis. Harvard looks a bit shellshocked after this one, a 15-3 Team USA triumph...
Nunn has wisely downplayed the London theme that the U.S. and the Soviet Union are morally -- or amorally -- equivalent. He focuses instead on three people who have paid a huge emotional price for success, only to realize that glory does not bring contentment: an American (Philip Casnoff) who has reached ! the world chess finals; his Soviet counterpart (David Carroll); and the American's adviser and erstwhile bedmate (Judy Kuhn), who falls in love with the Soviet. Theirs is not a charming Ninotchka-style romance: the CIA and the KGB hover on the periphery, exploiting the players and the game. Offsetting...
...monument to the materialism that the artist enshrined in his Campbell Soup can and Brillo pad artworks. For others, it was a microcosm of one man's obsessive greed. Either way, marveled Writer Fran Lebowitz, wandering around in the nearly two acres of memorabilia was "like being in a theme park...
Beethoven's Seventh, Die Walkure, Mission Impossible and the "Pac Man" theme, to boot...
Dukakis, the plodding survivor, the paradigm of caution who has launched not a single imaginative political theme, has outlasted seven rivals. Barring acts of God, this candidate described by one of his own aides as an "earnest nerd" will be the nominee. Sighs of relief were audible among much of the Democratic establishment. Because Dukakis evokes wild enthusiasm? Hardly. A TIME poll last week conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman showed that only 34% of registered voters consider Dukakis an "exciting" candidate (vs. 66% for Jackson). Rather, the party has grown weary of a nominating contest that combined the worst elements...