This is the Milk House, remember?" In the unlikely event that you would forget, cow-bedecked walls and black-and-white checkerboard floors in this spotless restaurant hammer home a relentless dairy theme.
Originally conceived as a two-part television movie about the real-life Ness and his G-men taking on Al Capone, "The Untouchables," with its relentless theme music, staccato line readings and narration by Walter Winchell, proved so popular that it became a series and ran for four years.
Smith also notes that due to its "relentless theme", "House of Cards might go down better in smaller portions and thus be enjoyably prolonged", deriding potential binge watchers as people who liken a delicacy to a "bag of M&M's".
The first, and earliest, theme was a relentless and comprehensive critique of common-law theory and, indeed, an attack on the very idea of the common law itself.
Each work ends with a sacrifice, and each pursues that sacrificial object through a relentless series of variations on basic themes.
And growing up amidst the pressures of a complex world and a relentless public eye is the tricky, tenuous, entertaining theme of New York-based artist Felix Bernstein's new musical spectacle, Bieber Bathos Elegy, which will debut at The Whitney Museum of American Art this month.
The theme of decline runs through our history like a relentless refrain, which is not based on a fear of change, since change has in fact been considerably accelerated by the West, but on a fear of the fall.
But everyone could use a band playing the theme from "Rocky" behind them as they jog, a relentless band that won't stop.
It's a constant and curious theme for a movie whose lead character has such a relentless, voracious sexual appetite, every moment of potential intimacy between Austin and a woman continually undercut with adolescent distraction.
