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...Mexican folk ballads, offered by a visiting professor in the English department. The fascination with which he read his texts for the course, and the enthusiasm with which he described his work struck me deeply. I learned quite a bit in the process as well--the social value and poetic richness of an art form which I had ignorantly disregarded as annoying background music...

Author: By Frank A. Pasquale, | Title: A Justification for Ethnic Studies | 8/1/1995 | See Source »

...Andreas remained feisty throughout the week, privately telling friends that "no one is cowed or bowed" at ADM and publicly pledging the company's cooperation with the FBI. The scrutiny of ADM has prompted a sense of poetic justice in some members of the Chicago Board of Trade, as ADM helped FBI agents launch a 1989 sting that led to several commodities traders being convicted on fraud and racketeering. "There is a lot of snickering because ADM has finally got its ass caught in a sling," said a board member of the Board of Trade. "There is just this whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HARVEST OF SUBPOENAS | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

...this dumbed-down universe, the prospect of Batman Forever gave some hope. The series' first two films, directed by Tim Burton, were the top summer hits of 1989 and 1992; Batman Returns was also a wonderful film. Joel Schumacher, director of Forever, hasn't Burton's creepy poetic vibes, but in The Client he showed real storytelling talent. He also wanted to give the series a fresh look, with a new Batman-Val Kilmer for Michael Keaton-in a new costume and car, both retooled in fine Corinthian leather. Even Gotham gets a make-over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TROUBLE IN GOTHAM CITY | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

...Disney animated features (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin), this is the most complex and rhapsodic, full of swelling passages that are artfully complemented by the Disney artists' imagery of pristine streams and forests. Menken's lyricist, Stephen Schwartz of Broadway's Godspell and Pippin, has a poetic righteousness that deftly avoids propaganda. Colors of the Wind -- among the loveliest ballads composed for a Disney cartoon, and sung to fierce perfection by Judy Kuhn -- ends with the admonition, "You can own the earth, and still/ All you'll own is earth until/ You can paint with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: PRINCESS OF THE SPIRIT | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

...changes in word choice, rhyme, fulllines--we get a sense of what he was about in theact of poetic creation," she said...

Author: By Susan A. Chen, | Title: Harvard May Bid $10,000 For Poem | 6/6/1995 | See Source »

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