Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mademoiselle Chanel has reigned over fashion," mused Jean Cocteau some time ago, "it is not because she cut women's hair, married silk and wool, put pearls on sweaters, avoided poetic labels on her perfumes, lowered the waistline or raised the waistline and obliged women to follow her directives; it is because-outside of this gracious and robust dictatorship-there is nothin» in her era that she has missed...
OBSCURITY is usually annoying: if someone has something to say, he should say it, and not hedge around with poetic hemmings and hawings, cute blushes, inarticulate murmurs, and so forth. A lot of what I'm supposed to admire is stuff that bores me and that I can't understand and that I can't understand and that its adorers can't explain...
Laing once wrote that "few books today are forgivable." In the pages of Knots, psychotherapists will recognize their patients, and patients, as well as some non-patients, will recognize themselves. Many of them may enjoy learning from Laing's poetic insights. For these people, Knots will seem an eminently forgivable book...
...poems have since been published in the Soviet Union. But not this memoir. In her country, Nadezhda Mandelstam's only published work is a doctoral thesis in English philology, entitled Functions of the Accusative Case on the Basis of Materials Drawn from Anglo-Saxon Poetic Monuments...
...Goin' Down the Road owes much to the early DeSica in its attempts to communicate the feeling of a life-style by approaching its subject in its own terms, on its own grounds, avoiding the poetic affects a detached narrative viewpoint allows. It is the characters', not the director's moods we see being indulged. But Peter and Joey are simply not complex enough to carry a feature-length film...