Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German lines to record the lives and activities of Russian guerrillas, credited with destroying more than a half-million German soldiers. The film is fragmentary, a merely average Russian documentary (aside from its subject). But it resembles They Met in Moscow in so far as the instinct for poetic realism-the dead center of most good cinema-is almost a national Russian characteristic...
...they went to the nearest Towne, found a preacher, and asked him to Meriam. As they McNeilled before him, he wished them a life of Bliss. They Liveseyed happily for some time thereafter, until she caught him spending too much of his time drinking beer in a Bar loon (poetic license). She seized a gun--there was a sudden Bursk of fire, and he fell dead. She couldn't live without him, so she shot herself, too; thus ending our story. (By this time you are probably wondering where in de Haas we get such ideas...
...home near Hollywood last week, the gentlest, most poetic of U.S. popular artists laid down his pen at last. George Herriman, 63, creator of the sovereign comic strip, Krazy Kat, died after a long illness. Hundreds of thousands of readers, who knew the love-daft Kat and his curious companions as well as they knew their own dreams, knew little or nothing of their inventor. But as friends and colleagues talked of this modest little man, as he never on earth would have talked of himself, a figure of almost Franciscan sweetness emerged. "If ever there was a saint...
Edith Almedingen was born in St. Petersburg 46 years ago. Her autobiography, Tomorrow Will Come, was a slight, delicate and frightening record of her first 24 years. It began with a poetic evocation of St. Petersburg, ended with her escape to Italy-a steppingstone to her home in England, where she landed in 1923, "tired, ill, and more than uncertain of the future...
...acre hotel he plans to build in Beverly Hills. Speaking of his former attitude toward the press, he remarked: "The morgue is the god of the Fourth Estate; there, sufficient multiplication of error is its verification as fact. The freedom of the press is the same as poetic license; it allows them to say anything. ... I assure you that I was born -where or when is supremely unimportant...