Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...courts, with their flair for poetic justice, furthered those images when they doled out legal justice. Locke, for his pains, got a seven-to 10-year sentence, he must serve at least 28 months before becoming eligible for parole. He currently resides in Walpole, the Alcatraz of New England Von Bulow has yet to receive a sentence and most likely won't for some time. If the day ever comes when he is forced to do time, it will most likely be in a minimum security set-up more suitable for one of his social stature. The parallel between...
Walcott, 52, was born in St. Lucia and still lives part of each year in Trinidad. He brings a highly developed poetic skill to bear on underdeveloped areas. His point of view is both privileged and painful: "I accept my function as a colonial upstart at the end of an empire, a single, circling, homeless satellite." The upstart has not lacked for recognition; last year Walcott received an award from the John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation that will yield him $48,000 annually for five years. Yet estrangement is not a matter of finances: "I am thinking...
Nims offers himself as an old-fashioned lover of forms, both female and poetic. He bows gracefully to ottava rima, the sonnet and ballad. "Verse without rhyming was a toothless mouth," he insists at one point; elsewhere, he disguises his own bite with barely detectable assonances like "hankering" and "merry thing." He toys with words to tickle emotions. In "Dawn Song," a man gets up after a night of lovemaking and praise from his partner, and faces himself in the bathroom mirror...
There was nothing pretty or poetic about the win. Harvard simply turned the tables on the Big Red, from its aggressive, confident play on the ice to the chicken, fish, taunts and tennis balls that came from the stands. From Greg Britz' goal just 47 seconds into the game onward, it was all Harvard, and after beating Cornell only once in the last seven years, the Crimson now has done it twice in one month...
...journalism and intellectual freewheeling to blast Chicago on nearly every count--the courts, the jails, the neighborhoods--everything. Piling on top of it all Hegel. Vico and Rilke don't make it any more palatable. If the trial did not convince them, the articles did: Albert Corde is a poetic jackass...