Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novelist is not shy about invoking the names of such famous poetic asses (as he sees them) as Rimbaud, Keats, Shelley and Victor Hugo. In wicked parody of their legends, he kills Jaromil off at 20. The young poet attends a party one cold night and insults another writer, who locks him out of the apartment on a balcony. Jaromil pridefully refuses to beg to be let back in, catches pneumonia and dies of asininity...
Henry James originally subtitled Daisy Miller as "A Study." Later on, in a 1909 preface to the novella he suppressed the subtitle, claiming it was mere poetic artifice. But he also wrote then that readers might have mistaken the subtitle for a literal epithet to his "poor little heroine's" name, characterized by flatness. "Flatness indeed," wrote James, "one must have felt, was the very sum of her story; so that perhaps after all the attached epithet was meant but as a deprecation, addressed to the reader, of any great critical hope of stirring scenes." If the film had used...
...said that "Nixon went to the Middle East to seed the fields so brilliantly plowed by ... Henry Kissinger." It is an extremely poetic statement. However, a more realistic assessment would be that Nixon went to the Middle East to sign the blank checks so generously left by Kissinger...
...figure. The stubby squared-off head above the plain business suit could belong to any Barcelona merchant. What has issued from that head is a different matter: despite many trivial or self-parodying works, Miró is the last of the great stylists of early modern art, the most poetic and formally gifted of all the surrealists. His imagination, filled with juicy ironies and wry eroticism, has enriched generations of younger artists, including Pollock and Calder...
SQUEAKY CLEANS. A description used by Singer Bette Midler to characterize fans of the soft, often poetic songs of such bards as Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Melanie. This is an orderly dating crowd in its late teens and early 20s who are interested in love songs. Girls generally outnumber the boys by 2 to 1. Melanie's ethereal fans tend to invade the stage, only to sit quietly at her feet, perhaps lighting candles. Mitchell's following emulates her. "Since Joni started wearing gowns," says Wolf, "the girls have started wearing dresses and makeup...