Word: poeticize
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...Ezra Pound, 77, hightailed it to Italy, muttering that he "didn't know how it would be possible to live in America outside a madhouse." But last week, after he was named this year's winner of the prestigious Academy of American Poets Award for "distinguished poetic achievement," the Faustian-bearded poet had mellowed somewhat on his stand: "I was and still am very surprised and moved. This changes a lot of things. If I feel well, if the weather is good and the circumstances are favorable, I think I will make a trip to the U.S. some...
...purely practical concern--by starting the performance with Caesar's apostrophe to the Sphinx, Rabb has guaranteed that this great poetic aria will be ruined by the scramble of late comers to their seats...
Thus a conflict appeared between Yevtushenko's poetic concerns and his political ones. He believed in the Revolution, but devoted his poetry to other topics. The conflict was finally resolved by the most important event in the young man's life--the death of Stalin in 1953. He writes: "After Stalin's death, when Russia was going through a very difficult moment of her inner life. I became convinced that I had no right to cultivate my Japanese garden of poetry...
...work on Patterson, Liston collected $300,000 of a $1,600,000 gate; with Clay, the gate might go to $8,000,000. It was a casting director's dream: Liston, the ex-con, scowling, surly, somnolent; Clay, the will-o'-the-wisp, gaudy, gay, garrulous, boastful, poetic. This time there would be emotion enough for everybody. People hate Liston and he hates them right back. People hiss at Clay and he laughs in their faces...
...scenes were shot right on the streets of Manhattan's Greenwich Village, "the lines being recorded by small microphones hung around the actors' necks, the wires trailing from their pants cuffs." If the dialogue is strictly trailing from pants cuffs, the photography by Baird Bryant is often poetic, and even the acting is haltingly expressive so long as the actors keep their mouths shut. Somebody might salvage the whole project by dubbing it into French, blocking in a set of sophisticated subtitles, sending it to Cannes and smuggling it back under the title of Brian et Genie...