Word: poetic
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...contemplative discourse with autobiography, superheroes and sci-fi has been hard. But lo and behold, a new softcover collection, "Abe: Wrong for all the Right Reasons," (Top Shelf; 176pp.; $14.95), reveals that Glenn Dakin has been doing precisely this kind of stuff since 1984. So where has this charming, poetic comic been hiding...
...life." But by midway through the book both Capt. "O" and the futuristic setting recede in favor of meditative free-association comix and thoughtful travelogues. One of the pleasures of reading the book is in watching how the artist evolves from creating whimsical spoofs with a touch of poetic consciousness to the exact inverse of that...
...presentations began with S. Chartey Quarcoo, who set a suitably sophisticated tone and read a poetic journal entry he wrote freshman year about John Coltrane’s song “A Love Supreme...
...which saw the entire crowd exploding forth with the title again and again as band members screamed, jumped and pummeled each other, setting the stage for crowd’s insanity with their own. The lyrical content of Slipknot’s music is, at alternating points, poetic, enigmatic and even disturbing. Several lines from “Disasterpiece” illustrate the combination of these elements: “I want to slit your throat and fuck the wound / I want to push myself in and feel the swoon… I am infinite, I am the infant finite...
Screenwriter Steve Kloves (Wonder Boys) also convinced the producers that he would respect the novels, and Heyman thought he would supply "a touch of melancholy, a little darkness, which I think is really vital to the story." Some of the movie's most poetic moments come from Kloves' head: after his kindly headmaster, Dumbledore, gives Harry a moving lecture about letting go of his troubled past, the boy strolls out to the schoolyard and watches his pet owl, Hedwig, take a slow, symbolic flight. "Those are the moments that move you and elevate the movie beyond being just sort...