The presence of Mr. O'Brien will probably provide a theme for the night.
The spirit of self-conscious juvenile playacting has informed his work from the start, providing a theme for "Rushmore" and a sensibility for everything else.
Most of the produce could have been procured at any farmers' market, but the urban agrarian notion does seem to have provided a theme for the décor.
It was here that, in 1984, Trent and Hatch were asked by a TV producer to provide a theme song for a proposed series whose provisional title was Ramsay Street.
It gave his political opponents a continuous narrative to use against him and provided a theme for the media outlets intent on wrecking any chance he had of a comeback.
This book is dedicated to the late, priceless Warren Zevon, who provided a theme song for Mr. Hiaasen's previous "Basket Case" and whose quick, diabolical wit put him on that same list.
The two other scores were more fully based on earlier music, whether used in a traditional way to provide a theme in Lutoslawski's Paganini Variations or treated in a quite odd manner in Takemitsu's "Quotation of Dream," where the dream being quoted, lengthily and repeatedly, is "La Mer" by Debussy.
But the comments of the Gore camp, laced with words like "integrity" and "rectitude," also seemed to reflect their desire to use Mr. Lieberman to move their candidate away from the scandals of the Clinton administration, which provided a theme of the recent Republican National Convention.
Less cherished is the character of Big the Cat, for whom Ted provided a theme in Sonic Adventure.
