Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from proposing in the poetic and impromptu manner ascribed to have by Province, Patton carefully thought out the place and circumstances for his proposal. The actual circumstances of Patton's marriage proposal are available to the general public, and indeed. Province claims to have consulted The Patton Papers by Martin Blumenson; one would expect a telling of the tale to be closer to Patton's own description than it is, or at least to make a gesture at cleaning up the inconsistency...
Motherwell has never used collage as a means of surrealist shock treatment. His work sits squarely in the formal tradition of early Braque, not in the poetic irrationality of Ernst. But its play between form and meaning is no accident. The "found" element in Unglueckliche Liebe (Unhappy Love), 1974, is a fragment of sheet music whose words apostrophize the miseries of passion: "Begone, begone, ye children of Melancholy!" But set on its dark ground, with a rectangle of slaty blue and a marvelous, soaring shape of white paper-Mallarme's swan, making a personal appearance-its stilted sentiment turns...
DIED. Edwin Denby, 80, America's finest dance critic (Looking at the Dance), whose meticulous analytical skills were gloriously partnered by his vivid, poetic language; by his own hand, after a long illness; in Searsport, Me. Educated at Harvard and the Vienna University, Denby wrote for the New York Herald Tribune during World War II and went on to become the foremost critic of classical American ballet, reserving his highest praise for the work of Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins and especially George Balanchine...
...characters or the excitement of their lives, but rather in the author's ability to make this simple, unceasingly ordinary family compelling. Through her narrators, Chase delves through levels of experience, exposing the most deepfelt emotions in this family's superficially simple thoughts and actions. With her rich, almost poetic prose, Chase raises seemingly artless feelings and circumstances to a moving and fascinating level, viewed from an exclusively female perspective...
...stove. The wood. The goddamn wood." John Updike's The City follows Computer Salesman Bob Carson's readjustment after an appendectomy: he was "trying to take again into himself the miracle of the world, programming himself." The aged farmer of William F. Van Wert's poetic Putting & Gardening discovers peace without change. On a Florida golf course his son observes him "on hands and knees, lovingly replacing my divot on . . . the only garden that is left for him." Like most of the ten women writers represented, Leigh Buchanan Bienen examines the everyday. Middle-class marriage...