Word: poetic
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...greatest hit, The Phantom of the Opera. Normal life is lived in company, the two shows say, but great passion demands an almost secluded privacy. If leaving reality for fantasy is demented, it is a noble madness. If hothouse love flashes into possessive violence, that only proves its poetic grandeur...
...Nixon never quite captured the fancy of the American public. The cameras that caught the angular planes of her face missed the soft contours of her heart. Her Republican, cloth-coat persona was no match for the glamour of her predecessors: Jacqueline Kennedy, international trendsetter, and Lady Bird Johnson, poetic beautifier of highways. But most likely it was because Pat Nixon stood by her man in the best Tammy Wynette fashion. And from his ambitious first days in politics to the catastrophic final days, her man could not shake the visceral distrust of the public and the media...
...employees of the same cosmetics shop "meet" through an equivalent of a personals ad and write passionate letters without | any idea that they know -- and despise -- each other. In daily life they are dull and ordinary. Setting pen to paper, they are romantic dreamers. They stand for the poetic souls we all believe lie hidden within us. With the help of Joe Masteroff's witty book, Sheldon Harnick's playful lyrics and the winsome performances of Boyd Gaines and Judy Kuhn, they are also completely believable people doing fetchingly silly things...
...County Mayo, in Ireland's remote rural west. The rowdy, bloody adaptation is set in Trinidad's east coast village of Mayaro in 1950. The transposition feels natural, underscoring Matura's point that at some deep level all colonial experiences are similar. The language is strikingly different, less liltingly poetic than the Irish, but bolder and much bawdier. By setting the tale a few decades later, Matura is able to evoke a society in transition to modernism, folk culture mingling with pop culture, myth blending with imagery from the movies...
...family to celebrate normal life. Rather than a mystical icon of spiritual regeneration through transcendence, as he seemed at a less materialistic moment in popular culture, he now stands for rehabilitation and forgiveness, almost as if enrolled in some 12-step recovery program. Michael Cerveris, saintly and poetic as Tommy in La Jolla, now seethes with energy. Of a solid supporting cast, the most remarkable is Buddy Smith as Tommy at age 10, his body endlessly pliable, his unresponding features hauntingly tinged with fear...