Word: poetically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest thinker the poor and oppressed of the industrial world ever had on their side: "Words ought to be a little wild, for they are an assault of thought upon the unthinking. But when the seats of power and authority have been attained, there should be no more poetic license. When a doctrinaire proceeds to action, he must, so to speak, forget his doctrine. For those who in action remember the letter will probably lose what they are seeking." Daniel L. Alexander...
...lyrics were equally innovative. Instead of the familiar themes of love and loss, he wrote vividly poetic images, inspired by the free-flowing narratives found in the works of Latin writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Carlos Fuentes. "Most Latin songs are about the guy who betrayed his best friend, or the women who left him, or saying let's party," explains Blades, who opted instead to paint an expressionist canvas that included blessed sinners and murdered priests, the cry of political revolt and the stifled silence between lovers. In Ojos de Perro Azul (Eyes of a Blue Dog), from...
Finely curated by Franklin Kelly, this is the first full-dress Church exhibition in 25 years, and it gives us the man whole: his poetic eye, his formidable ability to marshal vast quantities of visual data, his passion for botany and geology -- and his flashes of provincial vulgarity too, his shameless playing to the gallery. If one wants to understand the 19th century appetite for pictorial mastery as a metaphor of the conquest of "untrammeled" nature, this is the show to start with...