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...miracle of late Braque lies in this conjuncture of the explicit and the poetic. The green surface of The Billiard Table, 1945, folding in the middle, seems to be foundering in the aqueous gray and olive planes of the room like a sinking ship. Perhaps there is a ghost of a clue in the barely visible lettering on the wall, part of a cafe sign reminding patrons of the law against public drunkenness. But between the elements of the painting there is a continuous jostling, circling and reflection, a sense of the vitality of form in every particular, that puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Glimpses Of An Unsexy Tortoise | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

Curse is one of those plays where all th' characters, even tho they're earthbound Westerners, give monologues that're nice and poetic-like, tho they don't realize it. It's sorta a poetry of restlessness, of loss, of foreboding. Only the characters don't know it, 'cause they're just stringin' words t'gether, fast as they can. Sorta like Jack Kerouac, drivin' thru Colorado like a prophet, n' sayin' t' himself, "Wow!" Sorta like what you'd say if you subconsciously knew someone was gonna sneak up behind you and dump a bucket of shit on your...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

...here; abrading against Sarandon's earth-mama geniality and Robbins' rube egocentricity, Costner strikes sparks. Aided by a snazzy red-neck roadhouse bar-band score, Bull Durham is a long, smart kiss to baseball that should last longer than three days. How about all season? Wouldn't it be poetic justice if Ron Shelton were the movies' Mr. October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: I Sing the Body Athletic BULL DURHAM | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

Alliteration for a poetic year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Agony, Ecstasy and Even a Few Titles | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

...unducted fan." With 16 curved fan blades that spin in the open air, the engine looks like a food processor but produces a fuel saving of 40%. McDonnell Douglas has flight-tested the UDF on the prototype for its next midrange plane. But perhaps GE's moment of poetic justice really came last May, when Northwest Airlines, the diehard Pratt buyer, decided to buy 120 of the CFM56 engines. That must have prompted a few smiles at the light-bulb company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Make Good Things for Flying | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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