Word: encompasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THOUGH HARRIS underutilized her own voice in some poems, it stretches to encompass worlds in Harris's later "Chants," which she places, curiously enough, toward the beginning of the book. In "Beneath the Pole of Proud Raven," a voice takes over wolf's claws, fish's skin, and other natural powers, becoming everything. Harris's chants are prayers, exciting and meant to be read aloud. Her words are weapons in a struggle against the conventions of the city and the "second language" of urbanites...
...other Soviet leader would Brezhnev resist a chance to alter the power balance; nothing can relieve us of the imperative of preparedness. But within that constraint, some leaders, driven by the impossibility of suppressing human aspiration forever, may emerge who seek true coexistence. The West's policy must encompass simultaneously the two antiphonal trends of Soviet policy: resistance to expansionism and receptivity to a change of course in Moscow...
Office furnishings are a sizable cut above government issue. The office wing of the capitol in Sacramento is undergoing a $3 million sprucing up. That refurbishing will not encompass Assemblyman Walter Ingalls' principal office, which is outside the capitol. But that outside office is by no means shabby: at taxpayers' expense, Ingalls recently spent $8,000 for wallpaper, $10,000 for carpeting and $16,000 for furniture. His is not an extreme case. After installing new blue carpeting in his office, another legislator tossed out his set of California statute books in red bindings and ordered...
...film's major hangup is its confused characterization of evil. The devil (David Warner a la Ming the Merciless) tries to encompass all evil but fails to conjure anything but pity for his campy lines. Margaret Hamilton's witch in Oz terrified children of all ages; she never diluted her rottenness. Yet Gilliam has exorcised the seriousness out of where it belongs and makes the devil and his cohorts buffoons, wearing garbage bags over their capes and muttering things about advanced technology. Gilliam intends the plastic and electronics, which were also prominent in Kevin's living room, to personify evil...
...will revolutionize film. He is particularly proud of Polyvision, used at the end of the film. The screen widens, and on three separate panels, three different film sequences run simultaneously: the physical, emotional, and intellectual portrait of a nation. In the last frames, the Imperial Eagle, wings stretched to encompass the globe, fills all three screens. Gance is already planning the two sequels to Napoleon--provided he can get the funding...