Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, he would like to see all nations and continents hooked into a global energy grid, with electricity flowing efficiently across time zones to meet distant peak-hour demands. He envisions "a total-humanity sustaining system" that would decrease birthrates and increase longevity. In short, Fuller's poetic excursion was mind expanding, if not mind exploding...
Poet in Uniform. In each instance, the high poetic music of the play has been jangled and the nature of Othello obscured. While Othello sometimes speaks with direct and simple beauty ("Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them"), he often cloaks himself in more ornamental phraseology, and this silver rhetoric is lost on tongues of clay...
Petri's portrait of Authority remains just that: the poetic evocation of images from murky psychic depths and from a conception of the authoritarian mentality as an autonomous entity. It remains stagnant, detached from the dynamic politico-economic context that created it. This is not to say, however, that Volonte is "unconvincing" in the realistic portrayal of an individual pig-figure. His characterization is in fact masterful in embodying the all-important humanist absolute, Ambiguity, as he transforms the cop smoothly, almost imperceptibly-within single shots-from an archetypal tyrant to a snivelling child. It is the very wholeness...
...surfaces of material life than any of those explored by Marxist-intellectuals in the oppressor culture. He stands at the center, the crossroads of neo-colonialist contradictions, and in Terra em Transe (Land in Angitish) he approaches them dialectically, attempting a mediation between Brazil's political realities and the poetic violence, the spiritual energies of an oppressed people. There are both concrete and at the same time surreal situations, like all the other sounds and images of the film. The hero Paulo Martins embodies all of the central dialectical elements in fierce confrontation, in his role as poet and actualizer...
...theater, the luck of the English has been the Irish. From Sheridan and Farquhar through Synge, Shaw and O'Casey, Irish-born dramatists have adorned English speech with tears, wit and poetic music. All the great Irish writers possess the gift for lightening or deepening the color of language. They bring to it both a larky playfulness and a brooding melancholy. They are the unofficial patron saints of English, and it is these saints of the word whom the distinguished Irish actress Siobhan McKenna is honoring in a superior one-woman show called Here Are Ladies. Selections...