Word: themes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's fashion doll is Jem, with her own rock band, the Holograms, and her own theme song, "Jem is truly, truly, truly outrageous." She is related by plastic to Cricket, a talking tot ("Are we having fun or what?"), and to Barbie, the original glitz princess. Barbie's clothes alone sell more than 20 million pieces each year, making Mattel the largest manufacturer of women's wear in the world...
...magazine, George Booth of The New Yorker and B. Kliban, famed for his cat cartoons, with influencing his style; his work also seems informed by the bloated grotesqueries of Gahan Wilson (Playboy, The New Yorker). Nonetheless, Larson's vision is like no other cartoonist's. If a single theme animates his work, it is that man, for all his | achievements, is just one species on earth, and not always the wisest or strongest one. His prehistoric cave dwellers and chunky matrons with beehive hairdos and sequined glasses are vulnerable and foolish, while his cows and bears are wise and resourceful...
...undeniable theme of sadness and desolation runs through almost all of these stories. Morris' people are burdened with what one of them calls "the rising cost of living. Was it costing him more to live than he could afford?" But the answer such characters come up with is invariably no. In Here Is Einbaum, the hero, a Jewish refugee from Austria, has good reason to feel depressed but somehow cannot: "People amazed him. What would they think of next? His anger at human folly was not equal to the pleasure observing it gave...
Ginsberg is becoming very "post"; he is 60 years old, and his poems reflect a morbid fear of old age. He also fears his own obselescence. Ginsberg previously penned two different poems entitled "Don't Grow Old," and that is the overriding theme in White Shroud. "I can't get it up/...Growing old in my heaven," he writes in "Airplane Blues." He is clearly self-conscious in his poems, for he is both old enough and important enough to refer to himself several times. Increasingly, Ginsberg's poetry is rooted in his past, as he alludes to "Howl," "Aunt...
Throughout his seminar and the reception for students that followed, Landis unconsciously reiterated his central theme. To the legions of sycophantic admirers who asked for tips on entering the movie business, Landis repeated that directing is "greatly overrated as a profession. There are no rules." Some in Hollywood might wish there were...