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Such sentiments are less than encouraging for the aspiring Harvard critic-or critical professor. It may in fact be that academic impulse to perfect poetry, to make it the carefully crafted product of a deliberate mind, is misguided. "The thing people don't realize is that poetry is not cerebral," North admits, "but, like John, associative." With a carefully guarded smile, North adds those words that any young poetprays to hear: "You have to remember, poets don't always know what they're doing...
...most famous wonk to blow a sax was, of course, Bill Clinton, the main subject of Greil Marcus's new essay collection Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives. Marcus, a rock-n-roll critic best known for lively volumes on Elvis, Bob Dylan and the Sex Pistols, pinpoints Clinton's appearance on Arsenio Hall as the turnaround of his 1992 presidential bid. Considered a sure loser against Bush and Perot, Clinton swaggered on stage with his tenor saxophone, wailed a few bars of "Heartbreak Hotel" and instantly won enough support to capture...
Willoughby describes himself more as a food writer than a food critic or restaurateur...
...wants changes in Washington's approach on issues ranging from the war on drugs to immigration. He may not be helped by the fact that in his commitment to political diversity in his cabinet, he has appointed as foreign minister the left-leaning academic Jorge Castanedo, often an outspoken critic of the U.S. But Wall Street and Washington have both responded positively to his economic appointments, and no matter who his foreign minister is, Fox will likely be able to draw on a considerable reservoir of U.S. goodwill for quite some time. After all, it's hard not to root...
...Unlike that of his successors, Bunuel's work transcends all genre classifications. He was a critic of social and religious mores, who is best known for what he grudgingly called his "obsessions." Objective parties might more appropriately call them fetishes, but Bunuel was quick to state for the record that these were not his own fetishes. In the delightful book "Objects of Desire: Conversations with Luis Buñuel," he notes that "I am attracted by foot fetishism as a picturesque and humorous element. Sexual perversion repulses me, but I can be attracted to it intellectually...