Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with any consistency; the prodgious talent that shines forth from the dingy building is so bright that the rest of us should have the good sense to seek it out on our own time and at our own expense, as though that rickety, infested partyrental fire-traps were some poetic Lourdes...
...mature works of the mid-1880s, Nietzsche's thought becomes more affirmative. He reveals how "we too are still pious," by pursuing the ideal of truth. And he clarifies the ideal of truth. And he clarifies the doctrine of his poetic hero-philosopher, Zarathustra, who "posits truthfulness as the highest virtue." Furthermore, Nietzsche repeatedly castigates thinkers, artists, priests, and politicians for deceiving others (and themselves...
...writer for the New Yorker, is exactly right when he says, in an essay in the catalog, that "the theatricality of Avedon's work" is not a barrier to authenticity but rather the path to a different kind of truth, which it reaches by inventing "a set of heightened poetic conventions." Avedon has never been interested in observing the rules of straight photography, in which the most honest picture is one that has been fooled with the least. He crops and retouches; he coaxes the sitter and takes multiple shots until the subject's self-presentation matches some need...
...Again, "Poetic Justice"--A lame song from an even lamer movie. Janet, don't cancel any tour dates to attend...
...those with rock'n roll aspiration, but I fear for its universal appeal. Scrawled in the liner notes is a boxed phrase: "NOTHIN TO SING BOUT." In a recent interview in Raygun Malkmus addressed this problem, admitting that when he recorded this album he didn't have anything "poetic and beautiful to say, and I wasn't having girl-friend problems." He just didn't have the inspiration, I guess; the best moments are those that reveal a vague angst, best summed up in the melancholy chorus of "Range Life": "If I could settle down, then I would settle down...