Word: themes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although some students and faculty have questioned his political commitment to clinical studies programs, Clark says he supports them for their educational value--a theme which emerges throughout a conversation with the dean...
...have to say much to motivate the team," O'Brien said. "Everyone realizes what is at stake, our first Ivy League championship. For each game we usually come up with some theme to motivate us. Today's theme is `just...
There was truth as well as justice in the theme of her famous signature ballad, J'ai Deux Amours ("I have two loves,/ My country and Paris . . ."). The French music hall made her a star; the spirit of American jazz made her a great...
...label should be at least binary, like Dickens' "the best of + times, the worst of times," again no metaphor. It is a fallacy to think there is one theme. Like all ages, it is a time of angels and moping dogs -- after Ralph Waldo Emerson's lines: "It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum, and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like dogs...
...thick faux furs and diaphanous fabric in sexy, primitive patterns. And the customers cannot seem to get enough of them: they're snapping up zebra-stripe blazers, panther-print pumps, fake tiger coats, imitation ocelot boleros and giraffe pants. Says a spokesman for Paris' Dorothee Bis: "It's the theme of the year...