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Word: imagist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scott's luscious style or a parody of it? Maybe it's the spectacle of a director running for cover. Scott's last hit was Alien, a decade ago; these days his brother Tony directs the blockbusters (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II). So Black Rain catches a gifted imagist between inspirations, biding his time without quite wasting ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bakelite In Heat | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...Photographers fix the shadow of the moment and preserve it," said Ginsberg, who also praised the 20th century imagist poets such as William Carlos Williams for their attentiveness to detail and for "seeing a decisive moment in a glimpse on the street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poet Allen Ginsberg Discusses Photography | 3/16/1988 | See Source »

...legacy of Reagan the great American imagist lies as much in the realm of the symbolic as in the area of hard accomplishment. One of his great achievements was to restore the morale of the American people for a time, just as he restored -- for a time -- a faith in the institution of the presidency & and in the idea of presidential leadership. He persuaded the American people that their optimism was once again valid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Reagan Administration... A Change in the Weather | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...point, while courting the child's mother, the enchanter sees a glimmer of his fate "silently indicated to him by what looked like a strange naill finger." Sometimes remote, sometimes sinister, sometimes humorous, these imagist puzzles are strangely evocative, as well as tantalizing to decipher...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: `Fire of My Loins'--With a Douse of Water | 11/6/1986 | See Source »

...left for England and Pound, who was already there politicking for modernism and cutting a rebellious figure in velvet jacket and flowing tie. He edited her new poems in the British Museum bun shop, trimmed her byline down to initials and made her a charter member of the Imagist movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Astronomer's Daughter | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

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