Word: poetically
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...ENSUING DRAMA, which includes a hallucinatory hunt in a magical forest for a stag with golden horns and a giant, kite-like bear, is poetic drama. The images are so pure and bewitching that even a love scene between Angela and the puppet of an aged, decrepit man operated by three people is humourously touching...
...cool artsy line-and-shadow shot after another flashes on the screen. Wheatfields stretch into the distance, crooked fences reflect sunlit weeds, the world becomes one large poetic image as French director Agnes Varda transforms one girl's story into a supposedly universal metaphor; life is an aimless wander, meeting people and passing through places until you die. And, believe it or not, the film's beautiful cinematography and Saundrine Bonnaire's quiet naturalness as the girl actually make this work...
...into the blissful world of pop. "Red Rain," though hampered by insufferable plasma images, conjures up memories of past highlights like "San Jacinto" and "Here Comes The Flood." On the flip side of the disk, "Mercy Street" successfully tiptoes the line between Muzak and minimalism on the strength of poetic images like "Mercy Street in your daddy's arms again." While they don't compare with anything on Gabriel's third eponymous album, these two songs at least show that the former art-rocker remembers something from his past...
...Lieutenant Governor, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville: "Much has been written about my not being able to attend this university during my time. The fact that my son finished his undergraduate studies here and that my daughter is in this year's graduating class warms me with a poetic and an ironic justice. We have come to see that this country's insistence on right can make a change. It did so in the archipelagoes of the Philippines. It did so with the ravaged despotism in Haiti, and it will and must do so in the blood-drenched townships...
Cuomo's character does not always coincide with his rhetoric; his politics and his persona are not a seamless garment. Cuomo is the poetic speaker who preaches the politics of inclusion yet distrusts all but a handful of people. He is the cerebral Roman Catholic who has modeled himself on St. Thomas More but can display a kind of conspicuous moral vanity. He is the immigrant's son who talks about mercy and generosity but can be meanspirited and vindictive. Yet contradictions aside, he is that rare figure who is able to inspire, to tap into the souls of voters...