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...philosophy free from the influences of his heroes and predecessors. The former describes not only Baldwin's first experiences outside this country, but also his first realization that he himself is intrinsically an American no matter where he chooses to live. The latter is a magnificent and poetic catharsis, an attempt to rid himself of the demons of self-hatred which he personifies in his own father. In "Equal In Paris," Baldwin describes his transformation: "In some deep, black, stony, and liberating way, my life, in my own eyes, began during that first year in Paris, when it was borne...
...scouting party find three friends massacred: "Martha's breasts were skinned. They are made by Indians into bullet pouches, says Beam." That juxtaposition of horror and information perfectly captures the genius of this imaginary diary. For Nissenson has created an apparently loose, formless work that is poetic in its artful selectivity. Scarcely a word is wasted. Hardly an aspect of the struggle to found a new civilization remains untouched. The Tree of Life dramatizes, sometimes with almost unbearable intensity, the American dream and its attendant nightmare. There is the heroism of embattled migrants, some motivated by greed or propped...
There are poetic conventions and cliches and codes in composing a personal ad. One specifies DWF (divorced white female), SBM (single black male), GWM (gay white male) and so on, to describe marital status, race, sex. Readers should understand the euphemisms. "Zaftig" or "Rubenesque," for example, usually means fat. "Unpretentious" is liable to mean boring. "Sensuous" means the party likes...
Last month he took two giant strides toward answering critics who say he refuses to grow up, artistically or personally. On June 5 he began directing The Color Purple, an adaptation of Alice Walker's stark, poetic novel about Southern blacks. Eight days later, his live-in love, Actress Amy Irving, presented him with 7-lb. 7 1/2- oz. Max Samuel Spielberg, whom the proud father describes as "my biggest and best production of the year...
...falls through the air with the greatest of ease. "You know you're falling," says Diver Greg Louganis, 25, however much the layman thinks it looks like flying. "It should look effortless," observes Louganis. "The 'poetic' suggestiveness comes only from strength and how strong the jump is." If that sounds like a dancer talking, it is -- in an interview in the current issue of Ballet Review. Diving and dance "complement each other," says the Olympic gold medalist. "The same type of muscles are involved." Lately he has also been concentrating on starting a new career as an actor...