Word: poe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dogs into ducks. Long after the spell ends, an eerie residue remains, like a dream that persists in the waking world. Chris Van Allsburg's narrative leans too hard on pictures of topiary animals and foreboding dwellings, but his brilliant illustrations resemble snapshots taken by the brain of Poe...
Singer cited Tolstoy, Maupassant, Dostoyevsky, and especially Poe among his favorite and most influential writers. "Poe is the great master, and we are all his disciples," he said...
...suburb of Auckland, N.Z., is dominated by a North American-style shopping mall called Heaven-field-"a huge windowless pretence, as much an insinuation of Elsewhere as its own name or that of the city or the restaurant, Manhattan, as its entrance." Baltimore, Md., death place of Edgar Allan Poe, is recognizable, with its gray asphalt, red brick and black iron gratings, as are the affluent hills of Berkeley. "passing through a 'wilderness' phase where it was fashionable to let meadow grass and herbs grow as they pleased, and the wild creatures come and go in the gardens...
PRINCETON, N.J.--The leaning tower of hope came crumbling down on top of the Harvard lacrosse team Saturday, as the Princeton Tigers took the Crimson's dream of an Ivy championship and post-season play and transformed it into a nightmare of denial and deprivation here at Poe Field...
Miss Havisham's Fire is the ninth opera by the American composer Dominick Argento, 51, who has at least two major successes, Postcard from Morocco and The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, to his credit. The new work, which had its premiere last week at the New York City Opera, is in almost every way a disappointment. Argento and his librettist, John Olon-Scrymgeour, say that their work is "after Dickens," not to be compared closely to Great Expectations...