Word: rimbaud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remained a hip poetaster, a psychedelic pushcart salesman hawking Oedipal nightmares like Good Humors. No One Here Gets Out Alive portrays Morrison not as he was but in the image that he built. He died in Paris in 1971 at the age of 27, still playing Rimbaud the way a young actor cannot shake off a role even after he has lost the part...
...Indeed, he is not; and that is why the Pompidou Center is crowded. Dali's public hopes to meet a mind which fulfills its two ruling clichés about artists-the painter as old master (Raphael, Rubens) and the artist as freak (Van Gogh, Rimbaud). Dali gives his public a tacky, vivid caricature of both while fulfilling neither. No modern painter has armored himself more assiduously in mediocrity...
...play most nearly resembles Camino Real. But it is more pensive and muted, a violin to Camino Real's trumpet. Like Camino Real, Mr. Merriwether laces together reality and fantasy, the romantic spirit and the appearance of actual culture heroes of the past, such as Van Gogh and Rimbaud, here presented as "apparitions." In episodic fashion, Mr. Merriwether embraces the four major concerns that have spurred Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival...
...Beat writers from a literary point of view. You couldn't find two writers more different in their approach and style than myself and Kerouac." He rejected the term modernist as "meaningless," and claimed to be part of the picaresque tradition, "very definitely." He cited Conrad, Graham Greene, Kafka, Rimbaud and T.S. Eliot among his influences. Of course, he belongs among them, no mere cult figure but an important American writer in whatever tradition you care to pigeonhole him in, a denizen of the darkness who lived what Eliot only suspected, who saw life measured out, not by coffee spoons...