Word: imagist
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
That quality, finally, is what distinguishes the film. Director Hudson is perhaps a little too much in love with slow-motion sport photography, but he is an imagist of surpassing skill. Whether it is a matter of getting the light just right in a college cloister, or of perfectly framing a group of runners in training on an ocean beach, or of making one feel that one has seen just how a D'Oyly Carte production of The Mikado must have looked in the '20s, Hudson painstakingly makes an obscure corner of history reverberate in a nearly mythic...