Word: theming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conference's theme was "Origins and Aspirations: The Past, Present and Future of Chicano Civil Rights and Political Activism...
...sleeping with his wife Beatrice (soprano Catherine Malfitano) and tortured by his dark longing for his niece, Eddie finds himself similarly ostracized by his fellow immigrants--a situation that allows Bolcom to deploy his chorus to galvanizing effect. View is among the first American operas to take as a theme the immigrant experience, and Bolcom, 61, is just the man to forge a musical language appropriate to the task. A prime mover in the ragtime revival of the 1960s, he has long been up to his ears in vernacular music, lavishly stirring it into his classical compositions (McTeague, Songs...
...first glance, the plot seems simple: a wannabe starlet from Small Town, USA poisons her abusive husband, decapitates him, pops his head into a stay-fresh tupperware container, ditches her seven kids and takes off to Hollywood to become a TV star. It's a typical theme for a movie: carpe diem, no matter who you kill or how many lives you ruin. But set the plot during the turbulent time period of the '60s Civil Rights Movement, and the scope of the film becomes much wider and far more serious than its trailer suggests...
...instance, the Institute could adopt the Public Policy Center's focus on "work, family and the community," which has been the center's theme for the past five years, Director Paula Rayman says...
...symposium Dunn is planning for late April, titled "Gender and Inquiry," gives a sense of how a single theme might cut across a wide variety of disciplines...