Word: poeticizes
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...Delicate Balance. A suburban couple are paid a visit by friends who don't want to leave. Edward Albee's play may have seemed elusive back in the 1960s. But reincarnated by a fine cast (George Grizzard, Rosemary Harris), it proves to be one of the author's most poetic and vivid depictions of the dark at the bottom of the stairs...
...Flea Spare. In this year's festival of new plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Naomi Wallace's drama of life and lust during the 1665 London plague was the most ambitious, affecting, memorable. Wallace has a luxuriously poetic turn of mind and a gift for locating the heart of people on the brink of epiphany or despair...
...powerful. She is the leader of the Yugoslav United Left, an alliance of some 20 communist groups aligned with her husband's socialist party. Her column in Duga, a Belgrade bimonthly magazine, is closely watched for the latest clues to her husband's policies. Her cryptic comments, intermingled with poetic observations on weather, have led Serbs to call her column "the Horoscope." In addition, Markovic believes herself to be clairvoyant and claims to have foreseen the disintegration of Yugoslavia while seated on a beach near Dubrovnik with her husband...
...comic timing, Guthrie's show has its share of heart-felt--bordering on saccharine--moments. While his primary voice is one of cheerful sarcasm, he does stoop to write the kind of wistful and syrupy stuff into which American folk music has deteriorated. Guthrie's newer songs attempt poetic appraisals of the human condition--rather than satiric ones--which pale before the nutty genius of his older work. And when Guthrie, in his words, "sings pretty" instead of hokey and talky, he sounds a lot like Bob Dylan. But if this is a comparison which a listener naturally would extend...
...been a dominant practice among Catholics through much of the 20th century. Asked about the Pope's statement, Father Peter Stravinskas, editor of the 1991 Catholic Encyclopedia, said, "It's essentially what Augustine was writing. He tells us that we should not interpret Genesis literally, and that it is poetic and theological language...