Mr. Muñoz develops the border theme in a much larger sense: the uprooting of lives by strokes of time, history and the approach of death (He quotes the Spanish poet Jorge Manrique: "How life is passing; how death is coming, silently, silencing").
Donald Trump made the notions of "America First" and closing the borders themes of his Inauguration address.
If at times the "borders" theme seems in danger of being flogged to death – both herbacious borders and the bankrupt bookshop feature in passing – Adamsdale suddenly sharpens the focus, turning up the intensity of the gags.
This is doubtless a fun way to spend a weekend, on par with touring Alcatraz at night or a border-crossing theme park in Mexico.
A few other themes border on the self-referential.
College football might resonate little beyond American borders, but the themes in play at Penn State — the betrayal of public and private trust — are universal concerns.
Dillon is known as the home of South of the Border, the Tijuana-themed tourist stop and a Mecca of American roadside kitsch.
The drawback to this kind of immersive d?r is that it can border on the theme-park-ish, turning the specific into the ersatz and treading dangerously close to kitsch.
They pile into an oversize elevator in a building on Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn, ride down to the basement behemoth that is Barclay School Supplies and scour the store's 10,000 square feet for that perfect bulletin-board liner and bulletin-board border and, yes, theme to herald the beginning of a new year.
It is one of a number of engagements north and south of the Irish border on the theme of peace and reconciliation.
Until recently, the webpage for el cóndor sound had a Flash animation in which a huge truck crosses the Mexico/US border to the theme from Star Wars, while Che Guevara's face rises on the horizon.
