Word: bard
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...comparison undeservedly puffs up DisneyWar and Eisner. A media leader squandering his company's worth, a tyrannical boss, a failure clinging to power--these are dog-bites-man stories that Stewart simply bundles up in a deliciously toxic, if underanalyzed, package. It's not a tragedy worthy of the Bard, but it is a lusty roll in greed and spite. In other words, a good old-fashioned Hollywood production...
...writing songs for his second album, stepped into the Mississippi and drowned. Now Buckley has two flourishing careers. His pretty face and early death have made him a cult hero, while his songs - or one of his songs - have turned him into TV's hottest sound-track artist, the bard of the Very Special Episode. The cult came first, and it feeds off more than one tragedy. Buckley's father, '70s folk singer Tim Buckley, abandoned his mother, pianist Mary Guibert, before Jeff was born, and father and son ended up meeting just once, in 1975, two months before...
...Buckley has two flourishing careers. His pretty face and early death have made him a cult hero, while his songs--or one of his songs--have turned him into TV's hottest sound-track artist, the bard of the Very Special Episode. The cult came first, and it feeds off more than one tragedy. Buckley's father, '70s folk singer Tim Buckley, abandoned his mother, pianist Mary Guibert, before Jeff was born, and father and son ended up meeting just once, in 1975, two months before the elder Buckley died of a heroin overdose at age 28. Jeff never spoke...
Ginsberg wrote in a letter: “Dylan is a major American bard & minstrel of the XX Century, whose words have influenced many generations throughout the world. He deserves a Nobel Prize in recognition of his mighty and universal powers...
...latest book, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, the award-winning Norton Anthology editor recreates a possible life of the elusive bard in order to postulate how Elizabethan England gave rise to who is widely regarded as the world’s greatest writer...