Word: poeticisms
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...developed on slave plantations and in vaudeville halls. Three of Robinson's aged contemporaries--Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green and Sandman Sims--still hoofing in 1979, were the stars of George T. Nierenberg's intimate documentary about a challenge dance at a Harlem nightclub. Their story is poignant, their dexterity poetic, their legacy immense...
...question that Donald Hall ’51 is a Harvard man. America’s new poet laureate learned to party at the Advocate. He remembers getting drunk with Dylan Thomas and staying up late arguing with his arty friends, all of whom wanted to be the poetic voices of their generation...
...upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings," Shakespeare's poetic (and doomed) Richard II prophetically says in the play named after him. "Some have been depos'd," he goes on, some "haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd ... all murder'd." But were a modern Richard speaking today, he would more likely talk about the death of kingship-the very idea of a useful, functioning monarchy. The last quarter of a century has seen the number of democracies and republics in the world explode from 40 to about 120. Monarchs, as a consequence, have...
...Hearst's thugs as a threat to his crime-and-vice monopoly. "Bloodletting on my premises-- that I ain't approved--I take as a f__ing affront," he says. HBO seems ready, foolishly, to let Season 3 be the western's last. It's worth hopping on this poetic, profane story of frontier money lust before it rides into the sunset...
...What a popular song could express. It could address any subject, and be written with a poetic density that needed multiple listenings to be understood, or to convince listeners that they understood them. Suddenly, nothing was forbidden...