Word: themes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first Jack FM station, in Denver, in April 2004. Last August, Dallas--Fort Worth radio listeners were baptized in the new Jack format during their 8 a.m. commute, when the former occupant of the dial space, Wild 100.3, suddenly went jockeyless and played a selection of movie theme songs and sound bites that said "Jack." The station ranked 20th in its debut, then skyrocketed to No. 1 four months later. It has been there ever since. "People listening to the radio don't want to hear chatter," says Joel Hollander, chairman and CEO of Infinity Broadcasting, the parent company...
...visceral appeal, is still lyrically a “glorified way of saying ‘bitches ain’t shit.’” Battle raps and posse tracks often serve to pad out “albums” lacking any unified theme, even in the “underground” scene in which he operates. An inextricable part of Aesop’s appeal is the relative lack of such pseudo-macho posturing in his work; in his own words, he doesn’t want to spend...
...lush, waterfall-laden, 140-ft. man-made mountain in front of his new hotel, the rumor in town was that he was building a ski resort on the Strip. But Wynn Las Vegas, which opened last week, exudes an anti-Vegas, almost Buddhist quietude. There's no theme, no showstopper like the volcano he built outside the Mirage in 1989, the pirate ships he put outside Treasure Island in 1993 or the giant pond he created with fountains choreographed to songs for the front of the Bellagio in 1998. "Theme parks are a collection of wows," says...
...something the others don't: an account of Earth's history that hews to the most literal version of biblical creationism. Nestled close to the 67-ft.-tall Christ of the Ozarks statue, the museum is the latest addition to a theological theme park established almost four decades ago by the late Gerald L. K. Smith, a right-wing zealot and notorious anti-Semite. So if you go there, you will walk through exhibits depicting Eden and the Tower of Babel and learn that all life on Earth was created at one stroke about 6,000 years ago (no mention...
...plays are variations on the same theme, investigating how the bizarrely abnormal and the extraordinarily ordinary struggle to live life...