Since a central theme of Miss Fortune is the big part accident and chance play in life, I wanted to write a role for Fate, who emerges from the shadows whenever events take a downward or upward turn, accompanied by his own personal cloud of chaos.
These paintings, and others on the themes of card sharps and fortune tellers, were meant for the private pleasure of elite patrons such as Cardinal del Monte and Vicenzo Giustiniani, and while they were seen and enjoyed by a close aristocratic circle they remained unknown to most of Caravaggio's fellow artists.
"Before the 'Wheel of Fortune,' the theming of slot machines was generic -- cherries, lemons, pots of gold, four-leaf clovers," Mr. Christiansen said.
But if there's one reason above all others that you should have a copy of Decameron on your bookshelf (apart from the reason that the book is a great one to dip into, and almost inexhaustible), it's that the most common theme is that of the vicissitudes of fortune.
A driving theme of Micah is that of a reversal of fortune: The outcasts and the marginalized are brought in.
There are so many branded video slots—Wheel of Fortune being the most popular slot theme of all time.
There are so many branded video slots – Wheel of Fortune being the most popular slot theme of all time.
Legoland is, after all, a theme park celebrating the "toy of the century" (title courtesy of Fortune magazine) in the country in which it was invented: Denmark, "the world's happiest nation" (according a Gallup World Poll).
To write of it, one would probably need to adopt the epic mode, or the expansiveness of the 19th-century novel, one of whose themes was the invention of fortunes – albeit of families, rather than of nations and cities.
Give yourself an "E" for effort if you guessed that an "E" goes in there to complete WHEEL OF FORTUNE at 42 Across, but that's not all there is to this theme.
