Word: elegiacally
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...started writing it the day I arrived, and I stopped revising the manuscript the day I left. It started out as a piece that was looking back on a long, terrible relationship. And then other subjects came in. Because I was experimenting with very long lines, the poems became elegiac in tone, that is, they were about loss: of innocence, of childhood, of community. Tea is a bleak, flat landscape...
...occasion to raise money. Comic-book artists, including Will Eisner, collaborated on a volume of stories about the attacks. And Friday night, every broadcast network and numerous cable channels aired the two-hour telethon America: A Tribute to Heroes. Surprisingly restrained, held on spare, candlelit stages, it featured elegiac performances from musicians including Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Sheryl Crow and Alicia Keys and so many star presenters--Tom Hanks, Muhammad Ali, Julia Roberts--that the likes of Jack Nicholson and Meg Ryan were answering phones. But, mainly, pop culture redefined itself in terms of what...
...Castro. "The soul fan loves my songs because of my soulful guitar, and the traditional Brazilian popular-music admirer catches the influences from Jorge Ben and Wilson Simonal that I put in." Yet De Castro doesn't use the past as a crutch. His originals, such as the elegiac Voce e Eu, are as strong as any of his sample-based compositions...
...despite occasional exceptions like Tracy Chapman, the reverse doesn’t seem to be true nearly as often. Fortunately, Thalia Zedek, formerly the vocalist for Come and Uzi, has such a female baritone voice showcased on this album—part Leonard Cohen (whom she covers on the elegiac “Dance Me to the End of Love”), part Nick Cave, with the phrasing and sensibility of gloomed out Elliot Smith...
...before Southern died). Further exploration of his small but influential body of work in print and on film is necessary if only to discover his dazzling inventory of effects. Certain works are dispensable ("Telephone," "Randy," the wonderfully funny but "high concept" novel "Blue Movie"), others are sadly unavailable (the elegiac, touching novel "Texas Summer," the low-key experimental "End of the Road," and the grimly funny "The Loved One"), while the seminal works are waiting to be experienced (or re-discovered) at local stores or through Internet vendors...