Word: poeticizing
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...mint condition, the right size, and the perfect price ($10). Canada is an odd locale for seersucker suits, and even after attending high school there, I have yet to see any of it worn on the shores of British Columbia. Thus, the blazer has come to represent a poetic irony that is reflective of my Harvard experience. Like my blazer, seersucker itself has an ironic history. Originating in India, the word “seersucker” comes from the Hindi, Urdu, and Persian words “shir o shakar,” meaning “milk...
...uniformly good. But with the exception of the excellent Malone, most of the actors end up portraying emotions in tableaux that are non-naturalistic to the point of being a little distancing. This aspect is largely a function of the nature of the play: its use of dance and poetic monologues lends itself to a demonstrative form. For example, when Jean is nervous around Lucie, he repeatedly runs to the edge of the stage and back...
...Tarantino does offer an explicit poetic reference: one of the girls is supposed to give a lap dance to the first guy who comes up to her and quotes lines from Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (The QT version of that poem might end: "The road is kewl for this white trash / But I've a Challenger to smash /And miles to go before I crash...") But there's not much poetry, I mean of the pulp variety, in Death Proof. It doesn't show me much innovation, or much fidelity to the old grindhouse...
...deleted the message. Around dinner time, I received “FW: More pictures of Layla.” A new baby, I imagined, wondering how long it would take before the sender realized that I was no relation of hers. That evening came a piece of almost poetic gibberish: “FW: Harof Layla wabble!” Harof Layla wabble?” How delightful—something a baby might gurgle, I thought, before recognizing the language as Arabic. Did the muffin walk? Eat? Cry? Such intrigue, such absurdity. Since then, I’ve received...
...distorted pictures of cities are suspended from the ceiling and the walls. “I’m working through errors, interruptions,” she says. “I like the idea of looking again, of recycling. Every time you print out, you see a different poetic image. Each different mistake frames the photograph differently.” The exhibition is also a study of movement and space. The titles of most of the pieces involve motion, such as “Leaving Los Angeles,” or “Leaving Saint Petersburg...