One can imagine the exhausted family on the homeward journey, tallying up all the miles driven, paddled, rafted, cycled, skied, climbed, swum, scuba-dived, surfed and hiked, as well as games played, theme parks visited, fairground rides taken and jogging assignments completed, to say nothing of photographs snapped, burgers eaten, sodas drunk, states and nations ticked off the list.
One can imagine the exhausted family on the homeward journey, tallying up all the miles driven, paddled, rafted, cycled, skiied, climbed, swum, scuba-dived, surfed and hiked, as well as games played, theme parks visited, fairground rides taken and jogging assignments completed, to say nothing of photographs snapped, burgers eaten, sodas drunk, states and nations ticked off the list.
But there's also the wider audience of people who may have played theme parks in the past - of which we all know there are tens of millions - and are looking for something a little more advanced.
I once played Theme Park World for so many hours on a sick day off from school that I gave myself a migraine, which necessitated another sick day off school, and I suppose I felt an obscure pang of guilt around that.
After he settled in the U.S. a year later, he formed a quintet that played themes in distinctive piano-vibes-guitar unisons.
The plays' themes of political intrigue and adult angst are stripped down to questions of loyalty, honesty and free will.
Mr. Wosner went further, playing themes and phrases from the sonata just heard and pointing out similar bits in the Mahler songs.
The foolproof recipe I chose, which I have been playing theme-and-variation with ever since, is chicken with 40 cloves of garlic.
You can also play themed Bananagrams, in which all the words played must relate to a central idea.
On this occasion, an outstanding participant played the theme from the Haydn cello concerto, a graceful and joyful theme.
I played the theme from Jaws.
