Word: themes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dignity of an exhausted emperor. He mines humor from his fastidious diction, has a ponderous grace and takes pauses that could drive Pinter nuts with impatience. No trained actor could have delivered this performance. For it is not so much a performance as an inspired riff on the theme of native sons abroad, talking to each other in a language they are creating, on the fly, with each new blue note...
...current total of 1,025,000 copies. When an author receives that kind of recognition, two factors are at work: his skills and the vitality of his genre. King, who regards It as a "very badly constructed book," may be a little too hard on himself. But the frightful theme is what continues to make him the most successful horror writer in history...
Early this year, Democratic Pollster Peter Hart noted the lack of broad, cutting issues. "If there is a single message voters want to send in 1986," he advised his party, "it is 'Care about me, don't forget about me, and don't sell me out.' " That theme had particularly loud resonance in this year's primaries; with turnout even lower than usual, activists who cared enough to vote gave the results a strongly populist tilt...
...opera meets Grand Ole Op'ry," says Tolins. In it, "the Oprah Winfrey Company's funding is cut off, and it is forced to join forces with [Nashville's] Grand Ole Op'ry to fight Christian evangelist Holly Arethanthou, who wants to transform the opera house into a religious theme park...
...show has a grim, pounding energy, a bracing sound track that mixes Todd Rundgren with early rock (Del Shannon has rerecorded his hit Runaway for the show's theme) and an impeccable cast that seems to have emerged from the street, not a Hollywood casting call. Mann and Director Abel Ferrara indulge in few of the stylistic flourishes of Miami Vice but revel in the shadowy bars and gleaming tail fins of their seedy milieu...