Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collaborate on several translations, most notably in Molloy, from French to English. From this experience, Seaver testifies to the care with which Beckett composes his translations--he "re-creates" the works, "chipping away, tightening, shortening, always finding the better word if one existed, exchanging the ordinary for the poetic, until the work sang...
According to the marvelously clever, yet touching script for the new $24 million film version of King Kong, this starkly poetic, spookily enigmatic warning was found-drawn in blood, naturally-on the thwart of an empty lifeboat discovered adrift in the South Pacific in 1749. Next to it, natch, there was a "likeness of some huge slouchy humanoid thing...
...instead of taking the customary day off, thousands of workers, students and soldiers labored on the rebuilding of the gray stone homes that line the capital city's narrow alleyways; an estimated 30,000 houses were damaged by the July 28 earthquake. In Kweilin, southwest China's poetic wonderland of rivers, caves and mountains, mourning meant memorial meetings and work. Long lines of students one day walked sobbing along the main street of Kweilin with white paper wreaths for Chairman Mao. They were followed by peasants hauling grass and fodder on bamboo yokes, while motorized carts filled with...
...Life. Can it be better achieved at court or in the country? Or is place ultimately irrelevant? Should we be content with the "real" world or espouse the pursuit of an idealized pastoral existence? And how can romantic love best function? In the tradition of the medieval and Renaissance poetic contests (such as the debat, disputaison, tenso, and conflictus), the play's cast becomes something of a debating society, and the text is filled with double-entry bookkeeping. This is, then, a highly literary play as well as a highly artificial one. It is also eminently lyrical, although nearly...
...Georgia, with a number of exploratory side trips in between. Although the scientific descriptions in his journals can make for dull reading-some entries are mere lists of as many as 57 plants with Latin names-Bartram brings to his work keen powers of observation as well as a poetic, almost rhapsodic sensibility. When he sees a wild turkey, for example, he writes that it is "a stately beautiful bird, of a very dark dusky brown colour ... edged with a copper colour, which in a certain exposure looked like burnished gold, and he seemed not insensible of the splendid appearance...