Cavalcanti, in the best Ealing manner, takes up that same theme with dry, humorous precision.
Urban theorists invoke this same theme with the idea of the city as a ceaselessly changing organism that can either gentrify or stagnate.
The first is a run of 17 poems, which all embroider the same theme; with two or three exceptions, they are so dull it's a wonder anyone ever reads any further.
Jonathan's poem went well enough to follow it up, on the same theme, with a full recital of Mark E Smith's lyrics to the Fall song 50 Year Old Man.
The Times of London picked up the same theme with an editorial that concluded, "The presidency as an institution should not be at the center of what has become a shameful legal circus".
But the row over the first series is making it harder for documentary-makers to return to the same theme, with Grimsby residents also opposing the filming of a second series of the Channel 4 documentary Skint.
Mitt Romney takes up the same theme, with more subtlety, warning that Obama and the Democratic party are fostering a European-style welfare state with a growing "contingent of long-term jobless, dependent on government benefits for survival".
Next door, under the same ownership, is Rouge, a variation on the same theme with a more ambitious menu that carries everything from foie gras with red grape verjus (have it with a house riesling or a moscato d'Asti) to grilled salmon with lobster fried rice.
For one thing, Mr. Gore is working the same theme with his blue jeans, his Palm Pilot and a campaign appearance in California last year in which former members of the Grateful Dead allowed his wife, Tipper, to take a seat at a drum set and jam with them.
