Word: poetic
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...Norton lectureship, established in 1925, honors Harvard's first professor of fine arts. The Norton Chair is concerned with "all poetic expression" in areas such as music, language, fine arts, architecture and literature...
...skill and verve in portraying flamboyantly wicked people behaving according to "a morality devoid of ethics or civil law." Like Evelyn Waugh, she employs her characters' untroubled consciences as an implicit sign of their irredeemable awfulness. And this engaging game of rat and louse concludes with a bit of poetic justice that is ghastly and richly appropriate. --By Paul Gray
...same time, as such eminent Mexican intellectuals as historian Enrique Krauze has been pointing out, Chiapas doesn't represent all of Mexico. And then there's the question of Marcos's mandate: It isn't only political conservatives who note that, unlike Fox, the masked guerrilla leader with the poetic touch has never actually stood for election. "Fox has legitimacy," said a friend of mine from the Mexican left, as she surveyed the crowd in the Zocalo. But Marcos keeps dissing Fox, omitting his title when referring to him and questioning his motives in embracing the Indians' cause...
...received a great deal of critical acclaim for her first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, as well as for her two previously published collections of short stories, Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz. Goodman is clearly a talented writer. Her style allows her to move easily from colloquial dialogue to poetic descriptions. The characters in Paradise Park are wonderfully vivid, especially the exasperating but always lovable Sharon. The character of Sharon Spiegelman, in fact, originates in Goodman's short story "Onion Skin," which appeared in Total Immersion. Perhaps the character is in fact better suited for a short story than...
...looked only at the subjects Suzan-Lori Parks has tackled--racism, homelessness, sexual hypocrisy--you might mistake her for a polemicist. Yet her dislocating stage devices, stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and wondrous. Not one but two of her plays revolve around a character who makes a living as an arcade attraction playing Abraham Lincoln; patrons pay to impersonate John Wilkes Booth, grab a pistol and shoot him. (The image simply "burned itself into my mind," she explains.) Her spiky plays often take place in a strange nowheresville and feature Greek...