Word: poeticisms
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...raves, I found Whishaw?s melancholy teen annoying. He summoned not the shades of Olivier, O?Toole and other famous Hamlets but an adolescent, anorectic Michael Crawford. He has Crawford?s thin, whiny voice, too, ill suited to poetic verse. He begins his big monologue, I swear, by declaring, ?Tuh be or not tuh be.? (It?s ?to,? mate. Rhymes with screw and you.) The performance gets wetter: tears on his cheek, snot peeking out of his nostrils, spume on his lips whenever he pronounces a word beginning with ?p? - and there are lots of them in the soliloquy. Whishaw...
...well-to-do farmers. But there's a lot more to the film than its plot. Shortland, who studied fine arts at Sydney University before going on to graduate from the Australian Film Television and Radio School, gives an impression of teenage life as textured and poetic as Heidi's scrapbook. Stones thrown into a lake cut to the sound of snooker balls. Heidi watches her stern new lover throw water across his ute's icy windscreen and her heart melts. Rejected by Joe, she goes to an alpine club and watches revelers in an indoor pool tumble...
Those who do live it describe the experience in poetic and romantic terms reminiscent of Robert Pirsig's philosophical, Beat-biker book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. "You experience everything," says Mike Becar, "mist from a new rain, a meadow of flowers...
...Good Morning America” production meetings, story pitches involve effusive adjectives and charming anecdotal tidbits. At our meetings, we sell the story by the sample size of the study or the number of people who have the disease. We may not get the freedom of poetic license, but the benefit of scientific license—the powerful legitimizing force of objectivity—is pretty sizeable. We may have to give America what it wants, but at least we can make sure it’s done responsibly, and with a healthy dose of wordplay...
...point is that in a poetic turn of events, Knicks fans at long last got what they wished for and Scott Layden was no longer GM. He was gone. Some people in 2004 actually seemed to begin the “FIRE LAYDEN” chant and then suddenly stop, stunned. Others obnoxiously continued anyway. Those others were my friends...