Word: poem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is the way the year began--with what, by any standard, qualifies as a loud theatrical bang. No sooner had most of us unpacked our boxes than Erik Amblad was on stage in "The Hollowmen," an adaptation of the famous poem by T.S. Eliot...
...strangely appropriate that the show's title is slightly different from the title of Eliot's poem, "The Hollow Men"; this show is Eliot, distinctly skewed. The words of "The Hollow Men" are only the starting point for "The Hollowmen," a loud, extravagant, psychedelic play that feels very much like a live music video...
Another of the MTA's schemes for improving the subway is cheap but equally ridiculous. The MTA has been posting poetry between the ubiquitous advertisements for liquor, plastic surgeons and malpractice lawyers in subway cars. One poem that was plastered throughout subway cars this summer was titled "Heat"; it described unbearable, sweltering weather. Reading it on a hot July afternoon, sandwiched in between dozens of other sweating straphangers did nothing to make my subway experience more pleasant...
...past history have. He just looked like a man who was enacting a campaign rather than waging it. And I stood in the back of the hall and thought, He's losing with grace because losing is something he knows how to do. I thought of the old poem Invictus...
...think that's how he saw himself at the end. Invictus, one of F.D.R.'s favorite poems, was popular in the storm-tossed 1940s and would have been known to a lieutenant named Dole. It is a poem about fierce human will, a poem you might call proud or braying, depending on your taste. And you could say the Dole campaign at the end was a similar kind of poem...