Word: poem
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...several points during the fitful progress of this strange movie, an actor reads aloud from a stilted poem of his own composition. It takes a certain spirit to make a movie with poetic narration. To have such a rinky-tinky poem ("It was a typical Hollywood party, I guess, Except for the way it ended") declaimed straight to the camera is an act of further bravado that can only be applauded...
Stripping the shepherd's tale of its garlands and Hellenistic pageantry, Tetley retains only the theme of the legend to provide a scaffolding over which he has draped an elaborate visceral poem. In the Chagall-blue-and-aqua forest of Costume and Scenery Designer Willa Kim, Daphnis and Chloë, two innocents danced by Richard Cragun and Marcia Hay dee, are instructed in the art of love-making by Egon Madsen's lithe and sinuous...
Later they joined an audience of about 400 in Sanders Theater to hear poet Anthony E. Hecht and Dr. Robert Coles '50, psychiatrist to the University Health Services, deliver the Phi Beta Kappa Poem and Oration...
Hecht opened the deliveries with a humorous poem that purported to be an alcohol-inspired vision of a Hollywood production of the Bicentennial, casting Groucho Mars as P.T. Barnum...
Hecht said that his second poem was written about events that occurred three years ago. It read in part, "My son is born, and in his mother's eyes Turns the whole war and winter into lies...