Word: rimbaud
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...only for a change of pace, and Total Eclipse was DiCaprio's. This is the movie folks rent to snag a glimpse of the star's naughty bits (for which a slow button, a magnifying glass and a vivid imagination are required). No more Mr. Nice Guy; as Arthur Rimbaud, Paris' teen-poet sensation of 1870, DiCaprio has a talent to abuse. In an early sketch for the out-of-control movie star he so cagily plays in Celebrity, Rimbaud stands naked on an attic window ledge, pisses on someone he doesn't care for, sodomizes his friend Paul Verlaine...
...Walker Percy, The Moviegoer and The Last Gentleman (still like them both); Martin Buber, Good and Evil and The Eclipse of God (the beginning of the latter still tolerable); books of poetry by Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, W.B. Yeats, James Merrill, Alan Dugan, Randall Jarrell, John Hollander. Oh, also Rimbaud, Mallarme. (All still great...
...teenager should be awarded sheafs of Rimbaud for daring to transgress Miklavcic's and, I might add, the United States' repressive legislation by tasting the Dionysian delight that the ancients dared not withhold from their young. The herd instinct of this puritan university would have us agree with Miklavcic's judgements though most of us secretly empathize with the 16-year...
This is a lesson learned too late by many rock stars. They get high on the double dream of being a sensitive poet and a swaggering stud--Rimbaud and Rambo. Garcia, who was no friend of the Soloflex, nonetheless fitted the mold of iconoblaster. In his drug taking he was a role model to some, a sacrificial totem to others. Wasn't he killing himself to create more beautiful music? That music was often swell, and as leader of the most fan-friendly band in rock, Garcia was a sort of secular saint of pop culture. But he stuffed himself...
Currents were so strong in parts of the city that outboard motors strained uselessly--an oddly fitting trial for the birthplace of Arthur Rimbaud, one of whose most famous poems was Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat). In the calmer Charleville streets of Rimbaud's boyhood district, swans cruised nonchalantly like grand seigneurs inspecting their expanded watery estates. Downstream in Belgium, the Meuse overpowered a number of evacuation efforts in the town of Dinant. Householder Tony Delussu was exasperated after two floods. ``I'd just finished putting new wallpaper in my living room,'' he explained. ``I won't stay around...