Word: theming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keeping with the idea of the class as performance piece, Tatar keeps the lecture lighthearted and breaks up her lesson with intermission playtime. "At 'halftime' we have a trivia challenge-a two or three minute break usually centered on a theme. Once I had the Norman Bates trivia challenge about mothers. It breaks up the tedium...
...meaning of hip-hop was also a theme of thediscussion...
...young musicians signed to the studio, most found through ads in the trades or auditions; many are from the Orlando area, where performers now flock because of the increasing film and television production at Disney and Universal, as well as all the singing and dancing jobs at theme-park shows. The O-Town kids are paid $500 to $1,000 a week until their groups take off and they start making real money. Or not. A reporter jokes that if things don't work out, the boys can always go to work for the Chippendales chain, which Pearlman owns...
...seamy stories like a fly to manure: Sweet Charity is about a prostitute manque, Chicago two murderesses, and the film version of Cabaret, Fosse's greatest achievement, is a veritable saturnalia of sexual variation. And while the fatalistic Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries is Fosse's unlikely theme song, some of the cherries in this particular bowl are unnervingly sour. Robbins and Fred Astaire may have been Fosse's idols, but he had none of their open-hearted romanticism. Instead, he crammed his dances full of sexual imagery so harsh and loveless that you can't help wondering...
When we add up all the subplots--Gore's 98 ovations, close-ups on everyone, the bland GOP response and Clinton's contradictions--a disturbing theme seeps through the evening's grandiose rhetoric. It seems that the avoidance of our problems has become the problem itself, and we can look forward to nothing better than more of the political pandering, simple mantras and stop-gap solutions that we have come to despise. Alex M. Carter '00 is a history and literature concentrator in Dunster House. His column will resume next semester...