This cartoon offers a post-modern variation on the searching-for-truth theme, with the ancient philosopher on the right — scruffy, hunched, hirsute — returning wearily from his journey, defeated in his quest.
It turns out to be a name -- Thorne -- whose meaning, disclosed in the end (but not here) is more than clever; it is an artifice, yes, but with the thrum of credibility, adding a satisfying layer of resonance to the elusiveness-of-truth theme.
He had to make the case himself, and so he rolled out his hard-truths theme.
Etheridge agreed to write An Inconvenient Truths theme song, "I Need to Wake Up" after viewing Gore's slide show.
A core conceit of both the stage show and the movie is that each band member has his own Rashomon-like version of the truth, a theme represented with variable success on-screen by characters directly addressing the audience in the casual manner of Woody Allen in Annie Hall (which Brickman co-wrote).
The impoverished childhood, success in talent shows, the rip-offs by producers, the internal feuds, the seeking after spiritual truth are themes no less intriguing for being repeated, and the familiar trailblazing recordings no less impactful: "Get Up, Stand Up", "Nice Time", "War", "Simmer Down", "Stir it Up".
As a way of announcing the truth-telling theme of his new crime novel, George P. Pelecanos opens SHAME THE DEVIL (Little, Brown, $24.95) with a stylishly choreographed but extremely raw scene of urban violence -- a 1995 robbery in a Washington pizza parlor that leaves five people dead, including one of the gunmen and a little boy who just happened to get in the way.
Crispin Porter is perhaps best known for sophisticated campaigns carrying the theme "Truth" that are aimed at discouraging teenagers from taking up cigarette smoking.
This basic truth underscores the theme that has been increasingly commonly heard, namely that technology should not drive monitoring: improved outcomes-defined treatments should.
It was a peaceful enterprise doomed to a swift and savage destruction by fearful local landowners, but with its eternal truths and stirring theme, 'The World Turned Upside Down' still hits a raw nerve and, after dozens of cover versions, remains the prince of protest songs.
