Word: poetic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jerusalem will remain united because of this war,” he said. “That is the irony of this war and what I’d call the poetic justice of this...
...what I ended up taking from The River, more than anything else, was the mediocrity of its script. Fawcett is evidently extremely talented, but she needed the assistance of an aggressive editor. She created many moments of legitimately poetic language in this play, but those lines were overshadowed by torturous clunkers like “I regret my earlobes”—lines of dialogue that the cast somehow managed to deliver with straight faces...
...poignancy of Stafford's music about a woman's remorse over her lover's death changed everything. Its message was so potent; it overpowered the richness of Rachmaninoff and tapped into my adolescent yearnings of love and loss. Hearing its poetic, antique lyrics made me sit up and say, "That's what I want to do: tell stories with my music." It was like hitting a vein of gold...
...apocalypse brought down by four horsemen who all look suspiciously like Aphex Twin, a.k.a. Richard D. James. He imagines societies overridden by ultraviolence and emotions propelled by automation, then complements his vision with tonally appropriate pieces from artists such as Autechre and Portishead. The marriage is always perversely poetic, culminating in a video for Björk’s “All Is Full of Love” replete with erotically charged robots...
...even deals with politics, but insists she could never work in that language. She thinks of the complexity of Mali's relations with the International Monetary Fund as well as her country's cotton farmers and how they suffer because Western nations subsidize their own. Such topics "are not poetic," she says. "I may be thinking about the situation between developed countries and undeveloped countries, but you will never hear those words in my songs." So, on Kèlè Mandi, whose haunting admonitions make it a highlight, Traoré just sings about human interaction: "Give...