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This is a specific statement about a concrete emotion -- Walcott rarely generalizes or resorts to abstractions -- and yet it echoes well beyond its given point of utterance. At their most intense, Walcott's 10 volumes of poetry convey all the strangeness and exotica of island life -- of poor, forgotten people surrounded by water on a margin of the earth -- and make the whole spectacle as familiar as the view across the street...
...photos, drawn from all stages of Bravo's career, convey a sense of the precision Rivera praised. Bravos most striking characteristic is a crystalline, sometimes stark vision of his country's landscape and people. Light and shadow appear as palpable entities in these photos. Bravo's clearsightedness proves especially valuable in portraying the reality of Mexico, a nation so steeped in stereotype for Americans. His uncompromising view drains these images of any sentimentality or quaintness. At their best, these scenes of everyday Mexican life and death appear iconic and timeless...
Throughout all of his poetry, Wallace-Crabbe maintains what he called "the nincompoop's eye view," the childlike perspective that acknowledges the potential for interest and value in everything. Wallace-Crabbe is able to convey this potential with his writing and share his vision with others--the mark of the true poet and seer...
Matt Damon is not Charlie Dillon, a fact he felt compelled to convey to the cast and crew of School Ties. "Growing up where I grew up, the last thing you want to be is a racist." Difficult as saying the hateful lines in the movie was for Damon, the experience taught him that that kind of hatred will never...
BOSTON--Bill Clinton used familiar rhetoric to convey his campaign themes at a huge Quincy Market rally yesterday, part of a New England swing designed to raise money as well as public support...