Word: theming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relaxing strains of the Pink Panther theme flow out of the club, it seems that jazz is well and alive in Cambridge...
...another drama about a withholding father and a stubborn son that also made me cry. October Sky was produced by Charles Gordon, who also produced Field of Dreams, which makes him one of the great male-weepie auteurs. "The kid seeking his father's acceptance is such a universal theme," says Gordon. It's also an old theme: if God had even once said he was sorry, or at least admitted he was a hard-ass and offered to take Abraham or Jesus out for a malted, I would probably have cried reading the Bible...
...Drew Carey (whose sitcom this show follows on ABC), is based on the British TV parlor game that made its debut in 1988. Performers are given characters to play, songs to devise, scenes to act out--all, we are told, instantly ad lib. A skit with a Zorro theme required that each actor's speech begin with consecutive letters of the alphabet. Series regular Ryan Stiles got the letter X. No problem: "Xavier Cugat once said...
...theme of innovation came clear from the start with Daniel Pelzig's "Nine Lives: Songs of Lyle Lovett." The odd juxtaposition of ballet with Lovett's mellow country blues and twangy tunes created a comic atmosphere that was magnified by the black leatherish pants worn by the men and the attitudes adopted by the dancers in their dramatization of the lyrics. Whether pretending to light a cigarette or making an appropriate facial expression, the performers were certainly into the piece. Classical ballet seemed to become one with line dancing in the livelier segments, and interspersed throughout the piece were beautiful...
...attendees, Bodell said that he feels "the upcoming semester should be great." He added that over the past semester, the Society's active membership has doubled to a total of 63. This jump was largely thanks to the "Welcoming Program," a brainchild of David B. Alpert '00, which used "theme days" to instruct students in Web design and computer systems...