In turn, Vertigo's love theme makes a poignant return in North by Northwest, as does the vertigo chord when Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint have their turn clutching Hitchcock's precipice.

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And just a great show and I love the theme.

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The studio tried one more time, hiring Jeff Alexander and Larry Orenstein to write a song called "Madeleine, " set to the love theme.

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Eric Rohmer constructed his latest film, from 2004, on his old theme: the danger of falling for a false love while awaiting a real one.

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On first listen, the song could be mistaken for a whimsical ditty, with its pop theme of angst-ridden love.

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Mr Sim, who lives in Ipswich, "fell in love" with theme parks when he first visited Pleasurewood Hills as a six-year-old and has since visited "pretty much every theme park in the UK".

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Accompanied by a full string orchestra, he plays "Midnight Sun" with gravitas and then, a few tracks later, engages in a harmonica-and-bass duet (with Marc Johnson) on the "Spartacus Love Theme" that's more about intimacy than grandeur.

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But he ends up so far from this theme that a potentially glorious scene, a sermon on water as a metaphor for love in the mission church of St Xavier del Bac, becomes an aside in a chapter about junk food and barrios.

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It has polled Gore's "fight for you" phrasing against Bush's "uniter not divider" theme and claims that people are savvy enough to know that Love and Happiness will never be a legislative anthem.

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