Word: poeticisms
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...which he worked were often packed with friends and girlfriends, musicians and onlookers, folks who were playing on the record, and folks who were just playing around. "Marley would pull ideas from those around him-the jokes, the encouragement, the wisdom of those who spoke with the natural poetic authority that many Rastafarians are known for," Kwame Dawes wrote in his study Bob Marley: Poetic Genius. Marley told a Jamaican magazine in 1978, "Well, is the people of Jamaica really make me what I am. Is them say 'go Bob'....I sing, the people applaud. Them people down here...
...think people working at the studios now are afraid of what's cool and hip. It's kind of cool to have it happen this way, that no one wanted this picture and that we fought hard to make it on our own. It's poetic justice for everyone to have to come back and tell us why they think they should be a part of putting the picture out. I think it has kind of embarrassed the industry and shown them that they need to trust us to make cool pictures...
...Spreading liberty overseas is certainly a noble aspiration, but Bush’s plan for defeating tyranny is about as well conceived as University President Lawrence H. Summers’ plan for empowering female science professors—and about as tactfully articulated. When Bush waxed poetic about the “untamed fire of freedom,” for instance, the phrase likely had a very special meaning to the citizens of Fallujah...
...George W. Bush's hand wavered in the air as he took the oath of office, pushing against the words "so help me God." The speech that followed was humane and poetic, if uncertainly delivered; the President later admitted he had been pretty nervous. Bush's hand was rock solid last week as the oath was administered, his look calm and confident-but the speech that followed was far less accommodating than the one in 2001. It was, in fact, a fearsome statement of petulant idealism, a challenge to the nation and the world. It was a powerful and admirable...
...tower is a spiritual quest," says Libeskind. "Whether it's San Gimignano or the Freedom Tower, it's about the ancient poetic desire to reach the sky." And even sometimes to reach it by pretzeled means. Twelve years ago, the very visionary architect Peter Eisenman was commissioned to design a showcase building for the recently unified Berlin, a combination of offices and hotel and retail space to be called the Max Reinhardt Haus, after the also very visionary German theater producer. For inspiration, Eisenman turned to nothing less than the Mbius strip, the 3-D geometric form produced...