Word: poeticizes
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...explained Dickey, 52, after spending four hours in jail and posting $132.50 in bail. "I took a wrong turn, and the road didn't go anywhere." Now facing two months behind bars and the loss of his driving privileges if convicted, Dickey plans to maintain control of his poetic license at least. The incident, he mused, should lead to "a couple of pretty good poems...
...sound of both poems, and particularly "Daddy," is compelling, mesmerizing, and finally, frightening. In them, Plath creates most successfully the new kind of poetic effect she was striving for in her last months, an effect she discusses in the interview with Peter Orr of the British Council...
Aalto is utterly unconcerned with architectural movements or polemics. He deflects theoretical discussions with the imperious reply: "I build." For him, every structure poses its own questions of balance between man, machines and nature. Every answer is therefore fresh, poetic, charged with the identity of its architect. Mies van der Rohe had this quality; so did Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. Now Aalto, whom Wright called "a genius" 40 years ago, stands alone...
Mental Occasions. These troubles, and the boisterous episodes they cause, provide the background for what Citrine calls his "mental occasions." They include elaborate discourses on American materialism and the demise of the poetic imagination, the aridity of modern art (Picasso's huge Chicago sculpture is "only the idea of a work of art"), notions about modern boredom as a profound spiritual problem, and ruminations on death and immortality, with special emphasis on Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy, .the study of the divine spirit through scientific inquiry...
...several points during the fitful progress of this strange movie, an actor reads aloud from a stilted poem of his own composition. It takes a certain spirit to make a movie with poetic narration. To have such a rinky-tinky poem ("It was a typical Hollywood party, I guess, Except for the way it ended") declaimed straight to the camera is an act of further bravado that can only be applauded...