Word: theming
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...explained to be a symbol of courage and strength, especially meaningful in an increasingly militaristic state. A cormorant perched on a rock, seemingly a simple depiction of nature, actually represents a tourist attraction.With 17 paintings and two artifacts, the moderately-sized exhibition attempts to emphasize its theme of tradition manipulated to serve commercial interests, though in some cases the claim lacks evidence. A screen depicting a waterfall is said to represent that nation’s desire for tourism, though the author’s own words indicate only a personal attraction to the subject matter. Similarly, a supposedly symbolic...
...travels, or people with whom I've worked for many years, like Bonnie Young who designs the children's wear. My problem is the store is so small. I would love to have many more people there. But the store is kind of nomadic too. We change the theme. One day it's children, one day it's Africa, sometimes it's furniture or it's art. Because it's so small we can celebrate many different thing. It's like a journey because it takes you away from the mundane idea of what is retail...
That's so weird because when [your previous album] Post-War came out everyone was saying that it was a theme album about what America would be like after Iraq. I assumed that you'd written a number of songs around that. I definitely was inspired by articles I was reading about the war, but the thing that I was most interested in was the cycle - the similarities between what we're going through right now and what people went through after the last war we were in. So I'm more interested in common cycles than writing about something...
...Nick departs into the midst of the audience, eerily signaling that devil is amidst each of us. This exemplifies the artistic thesis espoused in the program notes by both the artistic and musical directors: “In this production we strove for an aesthetic which would reflect this theme of self-consciousness and the aesthetic self-consciousness of the piece...
...This is an era of limits," Jerry Brown recently told TIME, reprising a theme he sounded more than 30 years ago, when the state first put him in the governor's mansion in the aftermath of Watergate and during the last throes of the Vietnam War. "There is not a lot of room for political maneuvering. The age of dividing up the easy surpluses is over. We've been on a borrowing binge, both in the private and public sector, and we're going to have to enter a time of belt-tightening." (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...