Word: poetic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...once in the film, and his musings are dispersed throughout. “I’m a jazz man in the world of ideas,” he says, sitting in the back seat of a car driving through New York City, his astounding breadth of knowledge and poetic name-dropping engaging, if not inspiring. Žižek stands in front of a garbage dump wearing a bright orange vest, excitedly ranting about ecology in a counter-intuitive way. “We must find poetry—spirituality—in this dimension...
...buyers were taking in the fall 2009 runway shows in Paris and trying to rationalize what they were seeing. Even at its most frivolous, fashion always reflects the moment, so how would designers interpret the collapsing Dow and skyrocketing unemployment? Clarity came for me at Junya Watanabe's poetic show, a tribute to African style expressed in hand-blocked prints paired with recycled-denim skirts. As the first model appeared, a hush of recognition settled over the audience. It was a true fashion moment, one that defines the changing times. Suddenly, references to Africa were everywhere?from Marc Jacobs' chunky...
...poetic justice - or perhaps fate - then that the photographer's next historic subject would be a man credited with helping to end the Cold War: Pope John Paul II. Giansanti traveled the world with the globetrotting Pontiff and, while he was on the other side of Rome when the attempt was made on the Pope's life, Giansanti was among the photographers at Rebibbia prison when John Paul went to forgive his would-be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca. Giansanti's large portfolio of images of the Polish Pope at work and prayer in the Vatican were integral to TIME when...
...striking, lose their impact and individuality. The reader would need endless patience, not to mention an excellent dictionary, to parse the intricacies of every single poem. That is not to mention the innumerable times when Nilsson’s extravagant similes and metaphors strain the limits even of poetic license. “They left like young autumn octopuses,” she writes of “The Infant Scholars.” Mere originality is not noteworthy. And “originality” so overtly forced is overbearing and dull. Even less convincing are the attempts scattered...
...singers was something of a misnomer, however, meant rather to highlight the role of the voice in the performance than to indicate actual singing.In the last scene of “Corbu Pops,” a sole baby depended almost entirely on her voice to deliver a convincing, poetic monologue regarding forms, reflections, awarenessm the present, past, and future. But her poetic speech was punctuated by passionate, intermittent ejaculations of “Nigger!” She too then receded beneath her hole and even left the room. The door closed as she continued to scream from another...