Word: poeticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, winner of the 1988 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play, was daringly reconceived by director Claude Purdy rather than simply copied from the Broadway production. In almost every case, however, the changes dissipated the power of Wilson's poetic drama of rootlessness and religious obsession among blacks in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse...
WALKER EVANS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. These spare, poetic images from the Depression era gave American photography a candid new spirit and a lasting legacy. Through April...
...literally one onstage) and window-rattling, curtain-swirling supernaturalism. Not much of the actual text has changed. But at the Goodman the play confidently shuttles spectators between the everyday present and the ghostly remnants of the past, until ultimately the two worlds collide. The first glimpse of the spookily poetic comes before a word is spoken, when a shaft of white light illumines the piano, which by itself plays an eerily cheerful...
...Vanessa Redgrave for the central role, which requires mingling Southern U.S. and Italian accents, is unlikely but inspired. She plays a woman whose immigrant father was, unknown to her, murdered by her husband with the connivance of the town's whole power structure. The aggrieved woman dreams up a poetic revenge: to re-create within her dying husband's general store a semblance of the festive grape arbor where her family sold wine until they made the mistake of selling to blacks...
...says the book will take a new approach to analysis of Norse poetry by following the narrative text of an individual ballad as its characteristics alter over time. In this way, he will discover how the plot has or has not remained faithful to the original poetic form, as well as examining the narrative's changing impact on society...