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- Literary Calendar (San Jose Mercury News)
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- Uncloaked Potter Blinds Horses in `Equus' Revival: John Simon (Bloomberg)
Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Some plays read well but play poorly; ``Equus,'' specious as literature, is nevertheless dazzling theater. Now Peter Shaffer 's 1973 drama rides again on Broadway, in a production starring Daniel Radcliffe , filmdom's Harry Potter, and Richard Griffiths , aka Uncle Vernon and star of ``The History Boys.'' It is a gripping spectacle but not a substantial one.
- Olympics postcard: Chinese translations pure poetry - National Post
Olympics postcard: Chinese translations pure poetryNational Post, Canada - 4 hours agoBut they would still be worth it, if only for the writing on the washing instructions tag. As Cam wrote, they read: "Men's Collection. ...
- Area man's videos help deaf people connect to pop culture (Detroit Free Press)
Sean Forbes of Royal Oak, partially deaf since infancy, had a can't-miss party trick: interpreting hit songs for his friends, using sign language to convey lyrics in time to the beat.
- Palestinian People Mourn Darwish's Death, President Abbas Declares 3 Days of Mourning (Palestine News Agency)
RAMALLAH, August 10, 2008 (WAFA) - The Palestinian people on Sunday mourned the death of Mahmoud Darwish, one of the Arab world's greatest modern poets.
- Poetic journey through the fantastic (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - Poetry, like traveling, involves escape from the ordinary exigencies of life into the enchanting. A poet can achieve this through his skillful and creative use of words, which makes the commonplace unfamiliar, the ordinary bizarre.
- Obama ticks all the boxes: Young, black, family man with tear-jerker ... - Daily Mail
So is he The One? A balmy night. Stepping onstage at sundown, before an audience of 85,000, Barack Obama - the first black man chosen by a major U.S. party as its presidential candidate - offered new politics for a new century. But why did they sound ...
- McCain attacked 18 year old Chelsea Clinton in 1998 now says Palin's ... - OpEdNews.com
This is a very personal matter for the family. We should all respect the love they have for the child and the desire all parents would have for their children’s privacy.
- Life of a writer, role of the web - Examiner.com
Examiner.comLife of a writer, role of the webExaminer.com - 15 minutes agoIn other words, don't let the Internet drag you away from writing new fiction or poetry, an essay, or narrative non-fiction. Writing is a writer's life; ...
- Brown, Dixon, and Swallow Added to 'Romantic Poetry' Cast - Broadway World
Manhattan Theatre Club ( Lynne Meadow , Artistic Director; Barry Grove , Executive Producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the upcoming world premiere of ROMANTIC POETRY, a new musical by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger. The show ...
- Idle Chatter: Newspapers on the Cheap, more - Conde Nast Portfolio
Idle Chatter: Newspapers on the Cheap, moreConde Nast Portfolio, NY - 3 hours ago[WSJ] -Mad Men is boosting retailers' sales of 1950s-style suits and dresses and, oddly, Frank O'Hara poetry. [Ad Age] -Paris Hilton's Republican mom said ...
- Lost and circling around the Azores - Victoria Star
Lost and circling around the AzoresVictoria Star, Canada - 3 hours agoWhen I was a kid everyone used Imperial measure of course - feet, inches, yards, and pounds - and any of the filthy poetry and sayings around then made use ...
- Patricia's Porch Talk The Many Tones Of Sepia - The Chattanoogan
The ChattanooganPatricia's Porch Talk The Many Tones Of SepiaThe Chattanoogan, TN - 1 hour agoWidowed in 2002, she began writing inspirational poetry at age 83 to ease the pain of losing her life long mate as well as her own slow, painful recovery ...
- Post-war hardship led to humour, imagination and innovation - Irish Independent
Post-war hardship led to humour, imagination and innovationIrish Independent, Ireland - 6 hours agoNevertheless, he was a fine teacher, even if he seemed to believe that English poetry ended with Matthew Arnold. He hadn't much time for those writers he ...
- Teenagers invited to enter writing contest - Oxford Press
Teenagers invited to enter writing contestOxford Press, OH - 28 minutes agoFAIRFIELD — The Lane Libraries will soon launch its seventh annual Teen Writing Contest, "Our Own Words," for short story and poetry writers ages 13-18. ...
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