Word: poeticizing
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...dissolving past, into the long nights of desire and failure. For the next 35 years, directors took their cue from Williams' own lazy flights of self-destruction, from his wispy-wise, Percy Dovetonsils voice, and launched productions of his plays on gossamer wings toward the aerie of poetic eccentricity. In the Williams otherworld, one tiptoed through cobwebs, was blinded by moonbeams...
...easiest way to praise a film is to call it poetic. The easiest way to dump on a film is to call it unrealistic. Believability is the line drawn in the dirt; on either side are warring sensibilities, rival gangs of moviegoers or critics. Seen this way, the defenseless movie is reduced to a Rorschach inkblot, an excuse for prolonging the debate between fantasy and naturalism...
...from proposing in the poetic and impromptu manner ascribed to have by Province, Patton carefully thought out the place and circumstances for his proposal. The actual circumstances of Patton's marriage proposal are available to the general public, and indeed. Province claims to have consulted The Patton Papers by Martin Blumenson; one would expect a telling of the tale to be closer to Patton's own description than it is, or at least to make a gesture at cleaning up the inconsistency...
Motherwell has never used collage as a means of surrealist shock treatment. His work sits squarely in the formal tradition of early Braque, not in the poetic irrationality of Ernst. But its play between form and meaning is no accident. The "found" element in Unglueckliche Liebe (Unhappy Love), 1974, is a fragment of sheet music whose words apostrophize the miseries of passion: "Begone, begone, ye children of Melancholy!" But set on its dark ground, with a rectangle of slaty blue and a marvelous, soaring shape of white paper-Mallarme's swan, making a personal appearance-its stilted sentiment turns...
DIED. Edwin Denby, 80, America's finest dance critic (Looking at the Dance), whose meticulous analytical skills were gloriously partnered by his vivid, poetic language; by his own hand, after a long illness; in Searsport, Me. Educated at Harvard and the Vienna University, Denby wrote for the New York Herald Tribune during World War II and went on to become the foremost critic of classical American ballet, reserving his highest praise for the work of Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins and especially George Balanchine...