Word: theming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...volume he rather effectively debunks the notion, put forward by myself and others, that growing up as a Jew in Nazi Germany bred in him a reverence for order over ideology, and he ends with an eye-moistening 1946 letter his father wrote him about idealism. But his primary theme, now as in the past, is that in seeking a balance between realistic appraisals of our national interests and Wilsonian idealism, America tips too much toward the latter...
FAMILY ISSUES Both the new movie Analyze This and the hit HBO show The Sopranos feature a stressed-out mobster seeking help from a therapist. A few years back, Grosse Pointe Blank touched on the same theme. We asked some high-profile shrinks if they would take on a patient who's in the "family...
...stick to his own pretty remarkable success story. "I was the one who wasn't going to be someone," says Blanks, 43. He was the fourth of 15 children born to a poor black family in Pennsylvania. He had bad hips, dyslexia and (can you hear the Rocky theme music yet?) was nearly kicked out of his first martial-arts class at age 11. Using a mirror to learn the moves and correct for his impairment, he remade himself. He won scores of karate titles, appeared in a string of B movies and was born again--in that order...
Continuing with the theme of bold illumination is Harvard senior Hitomi Nakao's photograph of a naked woman seemingly bathed in the swirling light of a projector. This photograph, although darkly colored and almost confusing, radiates warmth and sensuality. Indeed, this nude is much more striking than Nakao's other nude photo series, in which a woman is photographed close-up from several different angles. The woman bathed in projected light is more a statement than an exploration, asserting the compatibility of the body and technology...
Spend the afternoon making waves at the Museum of Science; then check out a Laser Light show with the theme of your choosing. The Museum of Science, Science Park. 723-2500. 5:30 p.m., Space Odyssey. 8 p.m., Laser Offspring. 9:15 p.m., Laser Beastie Boys. 10:30 p.m., Laser Floyd: The Wall...