Word: poeticizing
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...Lindsay Anderson's tough-minded treatment of adolescent rebellion, leaving out none of its cruelty and poetic beauty. As well as a film with value for the future, If ... is one of the loci classics of late sixties student counterculture. Distin Hoffman's Straw Dogs, playing with it, is even bloodier and makes less sense...
...admitted to the miscarriages]. I was speaking about my new book - Letter to a Child Never Born - and the beauty and curse of being able to become a mother, and that you die a little less if you leave a child. I tried to put it in this very poetic way, and then she says, "So, you had three miscarriages!" She was big turd...
...sport. Indeed, at the Somme attack, an officer named Nevill, of the 8th East Surreys, signaled the advance by kicking a football toward the German lines. He was killed at once, but other officers kept dribbling their footballs across no man's land, earning a poetic encomium titled "The Game...
There aren't any conventionally offensive words in Giovanni's new collection of poetry, The Women and the Men. The women she writes about are maternal, stifled, mistreated. And the men--well, she doesn't deal with men as individuals but as qualities. She likes the poetic reverberations of lions, for example: a "pride" of lions; the lion thrown to slaughter in Daniel's den, Daniel representing men; the lion representing an alternate male predicament. Her men throw fleeting shadows over these poems, usually their last lines, which strain for harmony. Her primary subject is Giovanni, fawningly courting invisible...
...French foreign service. Dark-eyed, mustachioed Leger served as secretary of the French embassy in Peking and later as adviser to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before becoming the highest permanent official at the Quai d'Orsay. He published his poems under a pseudonym to keep his official and poetic identities separate. In 1940 Leger fled to the U.S. rather than serve a French government that favored appeasement of Germany, and thereafter devoted himself to poetry. Though his output totaled a mere nine volumes, the influence of St.-John Perse was wide. His rich symbolism inspired works by such artists...