Word: neruda
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...actors, who lent an earthy, avuncular charm to more than 125 movies over a half century; in Paris. A two-time winner of the César award (France's Oscar), he gained global fans as a weary film projectionist in 1988's Cinema Paradiso and as the poet Pablo Neruda in the 1994 hit Il Postino...
...Great Gatsby, in which she made her 1999 debut at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, playing Myrtle Wilson. Audiences were enthralled by Hunt Lieberson's deeply passionate portrayals, but she once said they left her "crispy fried in every way." She last sang professionally in March in Neruda Songs, which was created for her by her husband, composer Peter Lieberson...
...dead-end war brings and proved that antiwar fervor could change voters' minds. This was not so much political strategy as the almost theological mission of the amateur philosopher and published poet McCarthy was. Lines from his poem "Vietnam Message" could be the words of Gandhi or Pablo Neruda: "We will take our napalm and flame throwers/ out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches .../ We will leave you your small joys/ and smaller troubles...
...Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young,” with its tragic but heroic, laurel-crowned youth, is the poem that springs to mind when one think of Paul, and anyone who knew him should read it. Another poem by Pablo Neruda also recalls him to me. The poem contrasts a bright bunch of yellow flowers with the endless sea, and describes how one’s eye is drawn away from the sea’s deepness and vastness to the explosive, earth-bound beauty of the flowers. After...
Loeb’s latest book is an anthology of anecdotes by the likes of Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou, Tony Kushner and Pablo Neruda. The general theme? Apparently ordinary citizens can make an extraordinay difference...