Word: poeticizing
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...telling of a film story which is rooted in veristic detail (as in lesser New Wave films, or those by such American ex-TV directors as John Frankenheimer and Sidney Lumet), the result is chaos. The film medium, integrating elements of every art, encourages mere thrill-seekers and poetic poseurs. The real challenge is to create an artificial framework sufficiently analogous to the hard reality in which its creator lives to make a philosophic statement artfully: or, as is my bias (and Troell's), to see a historical subject so purely that poetry arises as the culmination of psychological, intellectual...
...hears few poetic descriptions of the Pacific's grandeur these days-only dry statistics: permissible concentrations of pesticides, inventories of recoverable resources, projections for master plans. It all seems a bit dull. But the results are startling: Westerners are standing up against the offshore drilling rig, the dredge and the bulldozer...
...right to sell out the people of Israel," he added. "Shalom!" The speech led many Frenchmen to believe that he was Jewish. As it turned out, Aranda is Catholic, conservative and, to the consternation of the government, a staunch Gaullist. The Mirage statement, he explained grandly, was just "a poetic touch, a flower on the dung heap...
...together that day in the woods." His working method is intuitive; one sculpture had to be remade 21 times before its movement was right. But the result justifies the effort. Tsai's work is free from the determinism and obtrusive simplicity of most kinetic art, and remains wholly poetic. "I don't have any fear of engineering," he asserts, "so I can't see electronics as an art fetish. The how isn't important. It's what you see that counts...
...archetypes themselves as characters. Fortunately for the reader, Barth -who is also an English professor at the Buffalo campus of the State University of New York -provides a pony. (Pegasus by any name is just as helpful.) As he explains in Chimera: "Since myths themselves are among other things poetic distillations of our ordinary psychic experience...to write realistic fictions which point always to mythic archetypes is in my opinion to take the wrong end of the mythopoetic stick...