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...rock star as Bono is--and he has no rival--he has grown even larger over the past three years, molding himself into a shrewd, dedicated political advocate, transforming himself into the most secular of saints, becoming a worldwide symbol of rock-'n'-roll activism. Part poet, part pol, he has taken his cause--solving the financial and health crisis in Africa--and helped put it onto the agenda of the world's most powerful people...
...posthumous release of an artist’s work is an inherently thorny enterprise. It is a tradition that began with Virgil, the Roman poet par excellence, who took ill before he could finish his masterpiece, the Aeneid, and on his deathbed consigned it to flames so that it would not be published without his finishing touches. Western civilization has Augustus to thank for saving the Aeneid from this fiery fate. Countermanding Virgil’s request, he had the poem edited and published against the dead poet’s wishes. The emperor’s motives, however, were...
Though political humor pervaded Keaton dialogue—when he’s asked by his girlfriend’s father, “What are you, a dancer, poet, communist?” Alex replies, “No sir, I’m against all those things”—the show was not concerned with taking a political stance. Politics were always subordinate to family, a message reinforced by the producers’ decision to replace the original opening credits, a series of photographs from Elyse and Steven’s hippie days, with...
...perpetual echoes in the gallery force the hapless viewer to glue his ear to the screen just to hear the actors’ voices. “Looking for Langston” is a poetic, haunting documentary, filmed in black and white, that examines the life of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes from a racial, political and sexual point of view. Julien, an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, achieves a remarkable interplay of light and shadow in his documentary, as well as a singular languid intimacy and sensuality...
...Chicago Symphony. His intense but accessible modernism is a welcome change from the watered-down simplicity of many of today’s new orchestral works. Symphonia, subtitled Sum fluxae pretium spei (“I am the prize of flowing hope” from 17th-century metaphysical poet Richard Crashaw’s “Bulla”), actually existed as three separate pieces before Carter combined them into one work...