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...fate of the marriage, along with the fate of Verlaine as a poet, was decided by the appearance in Paris of the weirdest wonder boy known to literature. At 17, Arthur Rimbaud was already a poet of genius. He had a face like an angel's and a satanic determination to undergo what he called "a long, immense and deliberate derangement of all the senses . . . seeking every possible experience." Rimbaud's Le Bateau ivre took Verlaine's breath away. In the cafés the "child Shakespeare" insulted every poet he met, interrupted their readings-aloud with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prince of Poets | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Hayride is one of the weirdest things that ever opened a Broadway season, as well as one of the worst. A long, noisy evening of hillbilly music and song, it would lack charm even if it were authentically folkish. Actually, it seems about one part Texas to four parts television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The New Season | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...more savage than Picasso, and arts of the South Seas, which were no more baffling to the general public than Bali's dreams or Henry Moore's hole-in-the-head idols. Yet "Ancient Arts of the Andes," currently on view at the museum, is perhaps the weirdest show in its 25-year history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: TREASURES OF THE ANDES | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Some friends set her up in a nightclub called Le Jockey. "The walls are covered with the weirdest sort of posters you could imagine. Everybody drinks a lot and everybody's happy. Scads of Americans, and what kids they are!" Kiki discovered she had a voice, but "I can't sing unless I'm ginny." Too much gin broke her health, also put her in a Villefranche jail, from which she was bailed out by U.S. sailors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Violets for Kiki | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...CRIMSON story implied that work done in the new filed of radio astronomy has led to a revision of the distances to the galaxies outside outside our own Milky Way system. Only by the weirdest sort of mental gymnastics is there any relation between Harvard's new 25-foot radio telescope (or anybody's radio telescope) and the distance to the galaxies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASTRONOMICAL ERROR | 11/12/1952 | See Source »

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