Word: poeme
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...fall, the Brattle showcases Godard's visual masterpieces every Thursday night, offering up a feast of his experiments in spastic editing, hand-held shots, and stories about outsiders who pop up in each others' lives like secret figures in video games. The repertoire ranges from gangster spoof to existentialist poem. Breathless, Alphaville, Weekend, Contempt and Pierrot le Fou, among Godard's most famous films, are all featured, in addition to many of his lesser known works...
...think the King knows all about me?" asks the child of Alice in A.A. Milne's poem. Diana's star quality was that she made us all believe, in our fantasy life, that she did know all about...
...have been one of God's subtle jokes that his exalted child spent her life looking up to everyone else--and said only two words. Later I would realize that they were the message of her mission. "Luff Gott," she said. Love God. She pressed into my hand a poem she had written, as she glided away in a swoosh of habit...
...took the poem from its frame the day she died. It is free verse, 79 lines, and is called "Mother's Meditation (In the Hospital)." In it she reflects on Christ's question to his apostles: "Who do you say I am?" She notes that he was the boy born in Bethlehem, "put in the manger full of straw...kept warm by the breath of the donkey," who grew up to be "an ordinary man without much learning...
Talk about speaking truth to power! But Mother Teresa didn't care, and she wasn't afraid. The poem she gave me included her personal answers to Christ's question. She said he is "the Truth to be told...the Way to be walked...the Light to be lit." She took her own advice and lived a whole life that showed...