Word: sonnets
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...about trying to edify people. He didn't pretend to be stupider than he was. Or younger. On his prime-time show, he presented kids' stuff with a cushion of irony. He'd dead-pan the lyrics to "All Shook Up" as if it were a Shakespearean sonnet. When Elvis Presley appeared at the apex of his first notoriety, Allen had him sing "Hound Dog" in a tuxedo - to a real hound...
...rhymes are delicious. Each feather of the shuttlecock, for instance, repeats some element of her appearance. White feathers repeat the white of her apron; a blue feather picks up the blue of her ribbon; a pink feather, the color of her cheek. It is as perfectly made as any sonnet. It makes you realize what rewards can flow from Chardin's desire to link the appearance of spontaneous feeling with the discreet display of its opposite, a technical perfection whose integrity rises from knowing its own limits. "All through his life," writes curator Pierre Rosenberg in the catalog, "Chardin battled...