Word: themes
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...trial. Once in the courtroom, the natural drama that a trial creates quickens the pace of the film and awakens the audience’s interest. However, even in the courtroom, Kearns’ metaphors are somewhat heavy-handed, and he beats to death the film’s theme of the individuality of human invention. Without the overemphasized morality of Kearns’s struggle, “Flash of Genius” might have been a trite but heart-warming tale of one man’s success against all odds. However, because of the film?...
...Ignitaries” entered the theater, and a number of student delegations were recognized by standing and spinning three times. Throughout the event, attendees sent a deluge of paper airplanes from the balcony and loudly cheered each time a presenter mentioned the night’s theme: “redundancy.” The night also included a three-part opera entitled “Redundancy, Again,” as well as various “Scientific Demonstrations” and other humorous skits. Marc Abrahams, the event’s lamé donning emcee, mingled with...
...monochromatic canvases. None of these paintings however were made by the hands, or with the permission, of the artists. The Western art world has historically been one of trends (remember when feces paintings were in?) but never has such conceptual larceny, such outright theft of not only theme but style, been seen this side of the Yangtze. Perhaps I didn’t fully realize the situation at that instant, but the experience certainly helped to stoke my fears that the financial incentive to tailor one’s art to mirror prevailing tastes might impede progress and override creativity...
...vestige from the stadium’s original design as a dual use football/baseball facility—are all bad. Sounds of the game are drowned out by the frequent roar of commercial jets taking off at nearby LaGuardia Airport, which in some sense is merciful, since the Shea theme song, “Meet the Mets,” is possibly the worst piece of music ever written in the long history of music writing...
...worried GOP establishment types, is that while lurching around to win the daily and weekly news cycles, McCain has failed to give voters a broad, forward-looking explanation for why they should support him. McCain's national-security experience and reputation as a reformer add substance to his theme of "putting country first," but they don't explain what a McCain presidency would mean, or how it would differ from the past eight years. "At no point have they told the American people where John wants to lead them," says a third Republican strategist. "Had they spent more time laying...