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...something Duritz’s songs have always wrestled with. At times the blaring guitars fall just short of overwhelming Duritz’s wails. True to form, Duritz writes lyrics that are self-reflective, almost to the point of narcissism. His fear of selling out—the theme on which he ruminates most often—is treated thoughtfully in the song “Los Angeles.” Duritz croons, “I am just trying to make some friends / So if you see that movie star and me / If you should see my picture...
...Sweetsir, published in 1981, explored the tortured life of a woman regularly beaten by her husband, until she finally, lethally retaliates. Though her characters spanned a broad spectrum from defiant youth to wry old age, throughout her novels the former editor for The Nation was consistently devoted to her theme: the lives and struggles of women...
What music do you turn to for comfort? -Tatsuhiko Yamada, TokyoWhen you are going through chemotherapy, you can't listen to the theme from Rocky too many times...
...sophistication with social engagement. “When is television ever that difficult?” he asked. English professor and director Robert Scanlan called Kushner’s lecture a brilliant play “crafted from beginning to end.” Kushner’s central theme, Scanlan said, was “that reality is sitting there and we as artists have to respond to it.” The Tanner Lectures, meant to advance “scholarly and scientific learning in the field of human values?...
...protests, which have been spurred by last month's unrest in Tibet, reached a jarring high point in last week's huge, chaotic outpourings in London and Paris. The unrest has made a mockery of the theme for this summer's Beijing Olympics: "One World, One Dream." In the words of David Zweig, head of the Center on China's Transnational Relations at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, "'One World, One Dream' has turned out to be quite a nightmare...