Word: theming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, three-time Oscar winner for best photography in films such as The Last Emperor. The music is a combination of traditional tango music by famous Argentine composers and several original pieces by Lalo Schifrin, known in this country for his re-working of the Mission Impossible theme for the 1996 film starring Tom Cruise...
...super-modern odyssey spanning continents and styles, Emer Martin's More Bread or I'll Appear is surprisingly entangled with the traditional theme of family. Beginning in Martin's native Ireland, the story traces one sister's search for her family's eldest and most beloved sister. The absent sister, Aisling, reigns as a ghost-like presence throughout the book, seducing the rest of the characters with her unfetteredness even as she binds them together. Although the story ranges from the seedy underworld of Tokyo to the hot sands of Cuba, these bonds of family are the center of Martins...
Seemingly independent of each other, reuniting only for Christmas, these entirely estranged people are linked by their common past and by genetic inescapability symbolized by their individual manifestations of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Martin deftly uses OCD (By no means a glaring theme within the book) to represent the complex, unavoidable and often tragic ties that bind families. Except for dutifully doing what she is told, Keelin seems to be unaffected by the disorder. Her brother Patrick, however, develops from a boy so fixated by his own sinfulness that the priest complains about his overly frequent confessions into a latex...
...bars with a younger crowd. The Harp, a generic bar across from the FleetCenter, boasts that it is "the famous Irish Restaurant and Pub in Boston, Massachusetts" but there's little Irish about this place other than Guinness and Killian's on tap. "We have sort of an Irish theme," says Stolinsky, "but our entertainment is rock and roll and we serve pretty much American food." Perhaps to cover it's faux Irish roots, The Harp is making a St. Pat's promotional effort. "We're decorating and we're promoting," says Stolinsky. "Most of the promotions are tied...
...bars with a younger crowd. The Harp, a generic bar across from the FleetCenter, boasts that it is "the famous Irish Restaurant and Pub in Boston, Massachusetts" but there's little Irish about this place other than Guinness and Killian's on tap. "We have sort of an Irish theme," says Stolinsky, "but our entertainment is rock and roll and we serve pretty much American food." Perhaps to cover it's faux Irish roots, The Harp is making a St. Pat's promotional effort. "We're decorating and we're promoting," says Stolinsky. "Most of the promotions are tied...