Word: broodingness
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Ashbery's meanderers are lost in, or overwhelmed by, crowds--of people, of data, of events, of promises. His speakers suffer from information overload, which leads to an amiable, brooding loneliness, an inability to stay focused on anything. One poem begins, "Tell me more...Actually we're overextended" ("Of Dreams...
Intense, rich and beautiful, this ninth album from the Athens college radio quartet is a masterpiece. Guitarist Peter Buck's trademark jangle gets the addition of acoustic strumming, and singer/lyricist Michael Stipe demonstrates a more versatile, more daring vocal performance. Highlights are the gorgeous "Nightswimming," the earnest "Find the River...
One week ago at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, over sturgeon, chips and a magnum of champagne (or was it a cup of tea?), the British novelist, Julian Barnes, famous for his inscrutability, consented to let me interview him. The official photographs of Barnes show a darkly brooding, almost...
In a program note to her startling, macabre -- and, on opening night, lustily booed -- new production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera, Francesca Zambello cites as inspiration the gloomy tales of Edgar Allan Poe and the brooding landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich, both contemporaries of the...
Now the perfect child who once wanted to be a priest is grown up and, despite the Italian cut of his suits, still looks as if his mother dresses him in the morning and tousles his hair before sending him off. Critics think the soft-spoken Stephanopoulos has insufficient heft...