Word: themes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film's ultimate failure in part lies in its inability to depict gender relationships with anything but confusion. The exploration of sexuality is clearly a central theme in The Mozart Brothers, but Osten and her actors seem to be playing with emotions, rather than building towards a meaningful conclusion about the role of the sexual in their personal and professional lives...
...baby. Ever since Bakker was caught in an adultery scandal and gave Falwell custody of his empire, the two have been flailing away at each other. At stake, beyond whatever should be rendered to God, are the sprawling Heritage USA theme park, a large cable network, a daily TV show, two hotels, a shopping mall and other oddments based in Fort Mill, S.C. The empire is worth $170 million but has debts of $62 million. During his 204-day rule, Falwell managed to raise $23 million but failed to rally the 114,000 "Lifetime Partners." They had sent Bakker contributions...
...been this man, it would have been some other." Dugas' escapades are just one of many vivid and shocking stories in Shilts' impressively researched and richly detailed narrative. The author has been covering AIDS full time for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1983. Most of his tales underscore a theme that is painfully ; familiar to AIDS researchers: both the Federal Government and the gay community squandered lives and let the disease rage out of control by focusing on ideological preaching instead of public health...
Still, the delegates were not complacent. The theme of the annual conference was "Action for the Third Term," and there was much talk of finding ways to keep the Thatcher revolution from running out of steam. The Tories thus endorsed further cuts in taxes, tougher anticrime measures and new curbs on labor unions...
...Springsteen album is about dealing. Of course, this concept is nothing new--many rock stars have done the happily-married theme before. Even Springsteen has hinted at serious commitment in songs such as The River's "I Wanna Marry You" and "Two Hearts (Are Better Than One)." But he was still insisting to biographer Dave Marsh that he was "not ready to write married music yet." Girlfriends like professional groupie Karen Darbin, photographer Lynn Goldsmith and actress Joyce Heiser came and went...