Word: poet
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Erected in 1882 and rebuilt in 1916, the Agassiz Elementary School has served the Cambridge community for more than a century, educating distinguished poet e.e. cummings, as well as the offspring of dozens of Harvard professors...
...BOTTOM LINE: Thomson's cheery, uncomplicated score is at odds with the poet's flamboyant life and works...
Wharton was a poet of repression. Another New Yorker, Martin Scorsese, is the bard of belligerence, the ace depictor of raging bulls. What could Wharton mean to Scorsese? Everything, it turns out: his faithful adaptation of The Age of Innocence (written with Jay Cocks, a TIME contributor) is a gravely beautiful fairy tale of longing and loss...
Andrew Motion, a fellow poet and younger colleague of Larkin's at Hull, gets close to his subject, but not too close, in this finely nuanced book. The biographer is as shrewd and sympathetic in sorting out Larkin's surprisingly energetic sex life as in parsing his poems. Larkin's longest attachment (38 years) was with Monica Jones, a lecturer at Leicester University. About halfway through this affair he took up with Maeve Brennan, a library staff member at Hull, and a few years later he added his secretary, Betty Mackereth. The point was to play one woman off against...
MUSIC Mariah Carey sings like an angel, but she needs some new material. THEATER A timeless comedy urges women to trade sex for peace. CINEMA Bad Behaviour is an improvised comedy about disheveled lives. BOOKS A lively biography of Philip Larkin, England's poet of gloom. TELEVISION The Wrong Man is sleazy, stinging film noir set in Mexico...