Word: themes
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...flashes of animalism to great visual effect; the film’s most lyrical image is of a silhouetted Sandler charging down a dark city street with the manic panic of a rabid cheetah, his tie flapping behind him in hypnotic rhythm. Following through on the theme is composer Jon Brion, who delivers a stripped-down, percussion-heavy score that flowers into a harmonium-accented love theme whenever Lena crosses Barry’s path...
Nearly every female lucky enough to have both a child and a byline--and I plead guilty--has strip-mined Pearson's theme: how to squeeze babies, marriage and a high-powered job into a day that cannot be stretched beyond 24 hours. But Pearson's Kate, a brisk, sardonic, loving world beater, has made it all fresh again...
...exhibition's next room, full of canvases from the period when he found his own vision, the ground has fallen away and the viewer is suspended, gazing at pure painted surfaces - and beyond them into unreadable depths. The only features are the verticals that became his theme. In The Word I (1946), brown paint is scraped over pale blue, segmented by a vertical ray. Onement III (1949) is a version of the painting he saw as a personal breakthrough. About the height of a man, the canvas has one scarlet stripe on an opaque burgundy background. The surface is hardly...
Jargon, indeed, was the theme of the ceremony. The world premiere of librettist Marc Abraham’s “The Jargon Opera” also amused the audience between the presentation of awards. The accompanist, Gregory Neil, was billed as the pianist “with a broken hand...
...second, action and theme, is how poets develop and direct that melody...