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"Pretty, pretty, pretty" dark, as Larry David might say -- which is probably why a satirical alternate ending mashup that lightens up the scene's mood with the help of the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" theme song has gone viral.
A running theme in Curb is that Larry's vast fortune has brought him very little pleasure as although he can afford to live an incredibly comfortable life, it still can't save him from awkward social situations or the rules of 'normal' society.
Price rises were partly blamed for electoral setbacks for his Congress party, which leads the national coalition government, and lost power a day earlier in two state elections.Responding to the domestic pressures, Mr Chidambaram produced a budget whose central theme was curbing price rises.
The idea of cosmopolitan loneliness, and of drug use as a way to curb it, is the deep theme of the show, even when it leads to comic results.
Read Paul Owen's episode four blog Each series of Curb your Enthusiasm has a theme (Larry opens a restaurant, Larry stars in The Producers), and I had been looking forward to seeing what twist of fate would send Larry back to his hometown of New York for this one.
Curbing inflation was a central theme of the annual budget, unveiled in Parliament by the finance minister.
Partly thanks to his involvement, the theme of "economic democratisation"—meaning, curbing the power of the chaebol was taken up by all three main candidates.
This year's theme is 'The Place of Parenting in Curbing Child Abuse'.
And on Mr. Brice's new album, "Hard 2 Love" (Curb), which was released on Tuesday, he slyly updates the theme, weaving it into "That Way Again," a heartrending tale of a shattered marriage.
