Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest threat to American business is not Japan. It is pennywise, pound-foolish executives like William Agee who squander money on wasteful corporate mergers. For him to be skewered by his own ambition is poetic justice...
Composer Peter Melnick adds a fun polish to Savage/Love, providing hummable original scores for the little bit of singing and making the band a sort of character by its intrusions among the lines and occasional interaction with WOMAN. Savage/Love is a poetic dialogue about the nuts and bolts of human relationships; the performance at the Nucleo Eclettico theater captures all its beautiful bitter/sweetness...
...Graves' targets were not insignificant. Vachel Lindsay: "jazz Blake, St. Francis of Assisi playing the saxophone at the Firemen's Ball." Ezra Pound: bad rhythms and "a wet handshake." Dylan Thomas: "a Welsh demagogic masturbator who failed to pay his bills." T.S. Eliot: "a marvelous satirist with a true poetic sense who had sold out to institutionalized religion...
...hardware-oriented genre with emotional immediacy, much as Ray Bradbury's haunting tales once brought a Midwest folksiness to the future. The Lathe of Heaven (1971) imagines the year 2002 and a hero whose dreams become reality. Along with the fantasies, Le Guin textures her tales with poetic leaps. When a jellyfish is flung on the beach, she writes, "What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?" Like many contemporary women authors, Le Guin, married with three grown children, is not an amateur...
...risk, I want to dare. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different." But some things were consistent. His Chopin-and he was peerless in Chopin-was strong-willed and large-boned, robust and masculine, yet sensitive and poetic. His Brahms was as hearty, bluff and ruminative as the composer himself. Rubinstein played Spanish music with the brio of a native (Spain was one of his favorite countries), and Impressionist music like a born Frenchman. Perhaps that was to be expected from a man who seemed at home everywhere...