Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precocious nine-year old heroine of Victory over Japan--for which Gilchrist won the 1984 American Book Award--Rhoda Manning. She is nasty--a smart, nasty child with a wild imagination. But the women in Drunk with Love are too flashy, too angry and too loud. They don't seem to suffer from living; they are born misfits, albeit amusing and erudite...
...says, "but portable radios get enormous"), Peggy Sue is streaked with melancholy. She is an alien in 1960; she will be stranded too when she returns to the '80s, where the boulevard of possibilities has narrowed to a blind alley. Reconciling with Charlie or starting life over without him seem dour alternatives after her glimpse at the limitless prospects of her youth. Like the Jimmy Stewart character in Frank Capra's 1946 It's a Wonderful Life, she receives the gift of second sight. But Peggy Sue's flashback convinces her that she must treasure what she has lost...
What clashes in the connection of poetry and politics is that on the surface, the two forms of expression seem antipodal not only in tone and structure but in the pictures of mind they convey. The poet is a vague and hazy animal, the politician hunched forward like a cat. What one would devour, the other would toy with in the air, angling the world in his paws so as to know not the world itself but the light-play on the world...
...there are similar passions in poetry and politics. However dignified poetry or politics may appear, there is something sublimely irrational at their centers. Both appeal to the irrational as well, to the zealot in you stirring in the ice of your calm and stately nature. Zealots themselves, they seem to need to win something, to force a climax almost sexual...
...case, intimacy is not the whole story. Hockney's responses to American landscape are broad and enthusiastic. In his painted work, these tend to be muted by irony or else lose their focus in conventional panoramas. But his photocollage method seems perfect for them, and the biggest work in this show, Pearblossom Hwy., 11-18th April 1986, sets them forth at full stretch. It is a scene both banal and grand: an intersection on the highway from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, the yellow highway line plunging out to meet the horizon under a great arch of pale blue...