Word: elegante
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Ashbery loves contingency; for him, the lyric moment is the moment before our minds are made up for a particular action or a particular way of seeing. It is not the instant of choice, but the instant before, in which these poems take place. If that denies Hotel Lautreamont the...
An elegant, doleful man named Miroslav Jancic, poet and former diplomat, introduces himself. Sarajevo is a concentration camp, he says in quiet anguish. "How do you eat?" I ask. "Not well," he says. "This shirt used to fit perfectly." He inserts two fingers between his neck and the buttoned white...
The novel is what one would expect from a man as prodigiously gifted as Barnes, a man whose felicitous turn of phrase, diverse themes and omnivorous curiosity occasion universal admiration in circles literary and otherwise. There are few contemporary writers who have attempted to tackle such disparate topics and with...
In just under two hours at a soldout Sanders Theater, she quelled any doubt over the success of her comeback. That this triumph occured at Sanders is appropriate--nearly 30 years ago Baez gave her first non-club performance at the elegant Harvard auditorium, one of the first shows that...
This year, nobody does that better than Mel Torme. Although he co-wrote The Christmas Song, the classic Nat King Cole made famous, Torme has never made a Christmas album before. From now on, no Yuletide celebration will be complete without him. With the exception of two instrumental tracks that...