Word: poeticisms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Indeed, audiences, especially those who were economically depressed, paid rapt attention to her lists of proposed legislative acts. In leaving the race, Clinton left the lists at home and her rhetoric soared as high as any Obama speech, at times rousing the crowd and then quieting them down during poetic and poignant moments...
Celebrated Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan was awarded Best Director in Cannes on Sunday. Perhaps now Turks will finally go see his movies. Despite being heralded globally for his movie magic, Ceylan's films - slow-paced, poetic tales of individuals struggling against the bleak backdrop of modern Turkey - routinely flop back home. Distant, a previous Cannes competitor, was seen by just 20,000 people in Turkey - only one-fourth as many as saw it in France. His current Cannes winner, Three Monkeys, has yet to sell to Turkish TV, which has deemed it too arty...
...emotion, she can break you heart just by being photographed; Maggie Cheung has never looked more ravishing than in her long, pensive scene here; the planes of Tony Leung Ka-fei's visage have the drama of great modern architecture. Leslie Cheung, wise, pouty, ever dangerously alert, binds this poetic, episodic film. A suicide at 46, in 2003, Leslie will live forever in glorious films like this one, which I'm happy to say is being released for U.S. theatrical distribution by Sony Pictures Classics...
...There's still a lot that I want to do with magic. I still want to make an amazing show that people can come see every night. That's something I've been working on for over 15 years now. It would be the most intense and poetic magic show that I could ever put together...
...CORRECTIONS The April 29 story, "Poetic Icon Returns for Reading," misspelled the name of the lecture series and the place where it was held. The lecture is named after Maurine and Robert Rothschild, not Maureen and Robert Rothschild, and was held at the Radcliffe Gymnasium, not the Schlesinger Library...