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...tour of Dante's tomb. Schnackenberg's meditation on the poet becomes a lament for the loss of a great poetic tradition. The speaker grieves that "no one will ever bother to cast again" the stunning images he created. The tone becomes less pessimistic as Schnackenberg begins to blur the lines between past and present: "There is a flood remnant...As if the Samaritan woman's water jar/Had been hurled against the wall, and was still dripping...Or it may be only a freshly washed floor/ Whose little lakes are...swept around by the custodian's mop...They...
...eternal travelers: his sentences wind their way around line and stanza breaks, often avoiding consistent, literal reference, turning the normal finalities or fixedness of cliches and buzzwords into things entirely strange. The poems are always about identifiable states of mind, but scenes and referents often shift, vanish or blur to better reflect the minds which contain them...
...same as the main figure in "El Jaleo." As the exhibition tags note, "The Spanish Dancer" "represents Sargent's first complete treatment of the subject he would again take up in the expanded composition of "El Jaleo.'" Her arms and neck show the strength of an accomplished dancer; the blur of her swirling clothing shows the movement of the dance. Singer displays his skill in the precise rendering of her clothing...
...wondered, what is it about the Harvard party scene that brings out the primal spirit in people? Is it that we don't have frat houses with big trenches to fill with beer? Is it that, in drunkenness, the neat divisions we draw in the day time blur and confuse us? I'm not sure. It reminds me of a scene I once saw on television: A man feigned injury on a New York City street. He laid there hours and none of the thousands of passers-by stopped to even ask what was the matter...
...hypothetical so as never to be surprised when it unexpectedly happened the next Sunday. "Everybody was ready for every situation," says 49er offensive tackle Harris Barton. "When we began a game, we really had an edge." Adds 49er linebacker Mike Walter: "On the field, the game can be a blur. If you have panic on the sideline, it will kill a team quickly." Walsh, standing serenely on the 49er sideline, secure in the knowledge that he had every option covered, was the antithesis of panic...