Word: poetic
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...players, especially the most grizzled veterans, refer to Marino in fond terms. Twelve-year Guard Ed Newman talks of protecting "the mother lode 4 yds. behind me." For bench-pressing 510 lbs. and conquering thyroid cancer, Newman is acknowledged as the strongest person on the team, possibly the most poetic. "We never questioned Marino's youth," he says, "because he has a timeless poise. It's a magical blend of humility and self-confidence. For a while I honestly wondered if he was a fluke or a dream. Now I think we all feel like we're part...
...itself is a commendable effort. Though the play does purport to concern itself with the plight of Miss Julie (Andrea Dishy) and her servant (Dean Norris), its heavily Marxist language and tone often undercut the development of the characters as individuals. Moreover, while many of Strindberg's speeches are poetic and inspirational, much of the script is repetitious. The virtual absence of any physical action, coupled with a cast of only three characters, makes for a dangerously static 90 minutes if director and cast aren't careful...
...many Americans, though, the complicated medical, psychiatric and legal maneuverings of the trial and Hinckley's subsequent acquittal by reason of insanity seemed neither poetic nor just. The computer printout that served as a mere index to the papers filed in the case stretched to some fifteen feet. The medical and psychiatric interviews of Hinckley climbed into the hundreds of hours. The cost of the month and a half long trial totalled some two and a half to three million dollars, with federal charges at least three times that spent by the oil-rich Hinckleys...
...right wrist); kangha (a comb); and kirpan (a curved dagger). Holding tenaciously to a creed of activism that decrees, "With your hands carve out your destiny," he tends to be a hard-working farmer, a go-getting businessman or a fearless warrior. He has been described, with poetic license perhaps, as "the Texan of India...
...dissembling. Toward rivals, he was hostile at worst, wary at best (when invited to share a platform with other poets, here plied with the ditty "I only go/ When I'm the show"). Yet Pritchard sets all this against Frost's compelling need to establish his poetic voice. The poet knew that his technique-the colloquial tone played against traditional meters, the apprehension of unnamed mysteries in ordinary experiences-was far more original and subtle than it appeared, and he was determined to assert his distinctiveness...