What follows is a refreshing variation on a shopworn theme: the Anglophone at large in the French capital, coping with the language barrier, inaccessible Gallic women and bad plumbing.
The opening story, "Checkers and Donna," is a charming come-on, a snappy, off-kilter variation on the shopworn theme of hipsters meeting cute as clever banter flies and witty thought balloons form over their heads.
Talking-head commentary in the film rushes wildly through shopworn themes: Silicon Valley as the new gold rush, the difficulty of balancing work and family for programmers who might stay at the office for 60 hours straight.
The AEIOU vowel-progression theme is somewhat shopworn by now, but I thought the doubling made it fresh enough to build a puzzle around.
The themes of "Dancer" include the nature of art — an unpromisingly shopworn and solemn topic — and also the bad character of artists, an equally commonplace motif but one that seldom fails to appeal.
The themes of "Dancer" include the nature of art an unpromisingly shopworn and solemn topic and also the bad character of artists, an equally commonplace motif but one that seldom fails to appeal.
This theme of language in art is a bit shopworn, but the curator, John Chaich, brings some snap to it through his multigenerational choice of artists.
(Smith) 'Mixed Messages: A(I DS, Art + Words' (closes on Sunday) All of the art in this year's edition of the annual summer group show sponsored by Visual AIDS is based on words, and while the theme of language in art is a bit shopworn, the curator, John Chaich, brings some snap to it through his multigenerational choice of artists.
There the galleries are looking more and more shopworn, and the installation of the collection, another highbrow, politically correct theme concept that entails nonsensical juxtapositions, has become a lingering embarrassment.
It's a pretty shopworn device after 18 years, as catchily monotonous as the reggae echo of "Bad Boys," the show's theme song.
The signposts of Grace's despair — the obsession with "Top Gun," the singing of the maudlin theme song from "The Rose," the Jack Daniel's and the Entenmann's — may verge on shopworn kitsch.
