Word: poets
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...Shadowlands The oddest of couples -- an emotionally choked Oxford don and a high-spirited American poet -- find a transforming moment of happiness as they confront her imminent demise. Richard Attenborough's film gains strength from the sterling performances of Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger as the live-and-learn lovers...
...Kilmer talks in ellipses. He eventually circles back somewhere near his point, but he leaves out all the connective tissue, so you're just sitting there as he looks directly ahead, talking about Tom Hanks and being related to poet Joyce Kilmer and the importance of branding, and you can't help wondering, "Is he really just drinking green tea with honey...
...Drag City) 4/5 Stars Silver Jews frontman David Berman is a published poet (his 1999 volume “Actual Air” was released to much critical acclaim), and he brings his unique literary sensibility to each of the group’s records. Perhaps because of Berman’s strange proclivities, the Silver Jews have never achieved the (comparative) popularity of some of their alt-country contemporaries: Wilco and Ryan Adams especially. Berman savors the absurd, and his songs abound with bizarre characterizations and nonsensical turns of phrase. Berman’s genius is his ability...
...Libre; Benjamin Ogunfolakan, lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University; Melina Pappademos, assistant professor at University of Connecticut; Claudine Raynaud, professor at the Université François Rabelais at Tours; Ronald Kent Richardson, associate professor at Boston University; Barbara Rodriguez, assistant professor at Tufts University; Wole Soyinka, playwright and poet; Phyllis Taoua, associate professor at the University of Arizona; and Noel Twagiramungu, a fellow at the International Center for Transitional Justice...
...French-German dictionary. The word it pointed to - dada - has many meanings: "hobbyhorse" in French, "cube" in certain Italian dialects and "yes, yes" in Slavic languages. That night, they agreed on a name but continued to dispute what the word - and the movement - signified. Tristan Tzara, a Romanian poet and the author of the Dada Manifesto of 1918, came up with what may be the only accurate definition: "Dada means nothing." That presents the curators of a new exhibition of Dadaism with a wonderful opportunity: to define the undefinable through the remarkably varied work the Dadaists produced. And produce...