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- 'A tiny bit of adventure' - guardian.co.uk
'A tiny bit of adventure'guardian.co.uk, UK - 2 hours agoI've settled into the restaurant car with Ellen, Tim and half a dozen other passengers to enjoy the poetry of the journey. The poetry is not helped by the ...
- Bern out! - Business Line
Business LineBern out!Business Line, India - 13 hours agoOur last stop was the 15th-century Gothic Munster (cathedral), its feathery spire — the highest in Switzerland — towering over the Old Town. ...
- Art Rooney Saw the Steelers’ Future - New York Times Blogs
N.F.L. training camps are underway, and there has been even a bit more than the typical early-summer disgruntlement — from, among others, Brett Favre , Devin Hester , and Jeremy Shockey . But the far bigger story, and the far larger dose of ...
- Lord Byron's life of bling, booze and groupie sex - The Sun
More than 150 years before the wild excesses of today’s football and pop stars, English Romantic poet and bed-hopper Lord Byron was the original “rock ’n roll” celebrity. Click below to see how Byron lived The dashing aristocrat’s racy ...
- Axe victim escaped 'rage' of Sydney (Southern Highland News)
The policewoman whose young children were killed in an axe murder in Cowra yesterday was glad to have escaped the "rage" of Sydney, and dreamt of writing plays and poems and playing the saxophone.
- Spike in sales for next poet laureate - Centre Daily
Demand for her work jumped sharply Thursday upon the Library of Congress' announcement that she had been named the new U.S. poet laureate, a one-year term beginning in the fall. Her collections "The Niagara River," "Say Uncle" and "Elephant Rocks ...
- David Biespiel muses on two paths to creating a poem - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
David Biespiel muses on two paths to creating a poemThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - Aug 9, 2008You write: "Hercules was fat and roan-dark as a cloud . . . " In Emily Warn's new sequence of poems, "Shadow Architect," she starts not just with language ...
- Fathers of year find time to laugh, read and travel with families - Nashville Tennessean
Their children range in age from their 40s to elementary age, and each has a different approach to parenting. But for four Nashville fathers recently honored by the American Diabetes Association as this year's Fathers of the Year, their motto is the ...
- Simon Gray; playwright noted for wit; 71 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Simon Gray, who wrote bitingly comic plays such as “Butley,” “Otherwise Engaged” and “Quartermaine's Terms” about the educated British middle class and whose almost manically confessional late-in-life memoirs turned his sardonic intelligence upon himself, died Aug. 6 in London. He was 71.
- Douglas MacArthur: Duty, Honor Country - Ocala
Douglas MacArthur: Duty, Honor CountryOcala, FL - 2 hours agoUnhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean. ...
- By Carla M. Collado (gazettes.com)
Young Writers’ Camp founder and director Ron Strahl chuckles when asked how lessons at his camp are different than English writing classes taught at schools.
- The Self-Help Guide to Wagner - NPR News
NPR.org , May 29, 2008 - Love him or hate him, if you're a fan of classical music, and especially opera, you have to contend with Richard Wagner, the controversial composer who made sweeping changes in the arts. His life, music, and legacy continue ...
- Thomas Newman hears the music of the 22nd century for Pixar - iFMagazine
iFMagazineThomas Newman hears the music of the 22nd century for PixariFMagazine - 19 minutes agoAt its best, Newman’s poetry reaches the kind of beautiful eeriness of Bernard Herrmann’s work on FARENHEIT 451, even if that film’sa far darker version of ...
- Greg Sandow on the future of classical music (Arts Journal)
With sadness, I want to mourn the death of Thomas M. Disch , who wrote the libretti for two of my operas, The Fall of the House of Usher and Frankenstein . The link takes you to his New York Times obituary. If you read it, you'll see that the last few years weren't happy for him.
- Paxman to interrogate the Victorians for BBC1 - Daily Telegraph
Jeremy Paxman is to present a new television series about his “first love”, Victorian art and culture. In the four-part series, which will air on BBC1 next year, Mr Paxman will use Victorian art to dispel the impression of 19th-century society as ...
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