Word: theming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the run, Schulz stuck to the theme first visited in that initial strip. Charlie was the Everyman who just couldn't get kites off the ground, footballs through the uprights or respect from his friends. We recognized his failures and sympathized with him because we had experienced many of the same failures in our own lives...
Their Y2K Pops, which stands for The Year 2000 Presumed Obsolete Performing Symphony, will showcase computers at the Hynes Convention Center that play classical, popular and science fiction theme music with synchronized graphics...
...characters around them. Claudia, the lonely cokehead played by Melora Walters, was inspired by the song Deathly. "Everything [Aimee] seemed to be thinking were things that I was thinking," the Boogie Nights auteur writes in Magnolia's liner notes. Mann's songs were inadvertently attuned to Anderson's central theme: emotional rescue...
...less than a good musical. McDonald emotes powerfully and sings beautifully as the title character, the voodoo-practicing daughter in a family of mixed-race Creoles, who sets the tragedy in motion when she becomes the lover of a white ship captain and bears him two children. The racial theme--"I was a servant in my father's house," says Marie's brother, describing their white father's rejection of them--is provocative without pontification. And there are fluid and poetic bits of staging, as when Marie casts a voodoo spell on her maid, snipping a ribbon as the girl...
...THEME PARK: Ever wanted to own Disneyland or a Six Flags? Now you can. In the world-creating tradition of the classic Sim City, this PC game lets you build and road-test all kinds of roller-coaster rides. The goal: to make the park's patrons as happy as possible. Do it right and you'll feel as giddy as a kid with a free-ride pass...