Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the blissful world of pop. "Red Rain," though hampered by insufferable plasma images, conjures up memories of past highlights like "San Jacinto" and "Here Comes The Flood." On the flip side of the disk, "Mercy Street" successfully tiptoes the line between Muzak and minimalism on the strength of poetic images like "Mercy Street in your daddy's arms again." While they don't compare with anything on Gabriel's third eponymous album, these two songs at least show that the former art-rocker remembers something from his past...
...Lieutenant Governor, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville: "Much has been written about my not being able to attend this university during my time. The fact that my son finished his undergraduate studies here and that my daughter is in this year's graduating class warms me with a poetic and an ironic justice. We have come to see that this country's insistence on right can make a change. It did so in the archipelagoes of the Philippines. It did so with the ravaged despotism in Haiti, and it will and must do so in the blood-drenched townships...
Cuomo's character does not always coincide with his rhetoric; his politics and his persona are not a seamless garment. Cuomo is the poetic speaker who preaches the politics of inclusion yet distrusts all but a handful of people. He is the cerebral Roman Catholic who has modeled himself on St. Thomas More but can display a kind of conspicuous moral vanity. He is the immigrant's son who talks about mercy and generosity but can be meanspirited and vindictive. Yet contradictions aside, he is that rare figure who is able to inspire, to tap into the souls of voters...
...evoke smiles from a less sophisticated audience. Especially well-done is a scene which requires most of the cast to write essays on Peter Rabbit. The essays are sung aloud in well-blended and well-performed sketch. Lucy approaches the assignment with characteristic single-mindedness. Schroeder waxes poetic. And Linus examines the psychological motivating factors implicit in the story...
...returning Sobhraj to justice last week, Zende, who had caught the suspected murderer in 1972, served a kind of poetic justice. The day Sobhraj was arrested was the fugitive's birthday...