Word: birth
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...strike your fancy, there are other sites worth visiting. The free E-Greetings Network egreetings.com offers animated Austin Powers cards ("Very Shagadelic!"), along with Star Trek- and King of the Hill-themed cards. Unfortunately, the site's obnoxious registration form requires personal data, such as year of birth and zip code, before letting you send a card. For photo-realistic images, nothing tops the selection at Corbis.com which lets visitors turn any of its thousands of high-resolution art and nature images into digital postcards. The one catch: www.corbis.com prominently appears on each card, making it feel more like...
...language never rivals the story in The Queen of the Mist; rather, the spare imagery Murray painstakingly inserts allows the heartbreaking story to tell itself without unnecessary flourishes. Images of birth, death and rebirth permeate the poem's language, providing the strongest continual layer of metaphor within the poem. The barrel, Annie's self-made womb, becomes in the end Annie's self-made tomb as Annie watches herself disintegrate within the short and petty memory of history. Eventually she is even called an imposter when the idealistic collective imagination consumes memory and literally recreates "Annie Taylor" into a blonde...
...Artest's backcourt is one of the freshest and quickest in the nation, manned by rookies Barkley and Bootsy Thornton, like Francis a ju-co veteran. Bootsy, whose birth certificate reads Marvis, got his nickname when his mother named him after Parliament Funkadelic's Bootsy Collins...
...original Gaia was a femme fatale. Hesiod, a Greek from the 6th century B.C., tells her lurid tale in The Theogony. Born of the state of chaos, Gaia the Earth immaculately conceived her first brood of children, among which was the Sky, Uranus. Earth and Sky "united," giving birth to the Titans, the last of whom was Chronos, Time. Feisty Chronos, seeking to overthrow his father, turned to his mother for help. Gaia, exhausted by repeated strenuous labor and angered by Uranus' tyranny, supplied her son a sickle with which to castrate his father, her husband. Mother Earth proceeded...
...dare close your eyes. "Songs for a New World" has something for everyone: love, birth, death, an historic Spanish sailing ship and the north pole. This musical revue presents a pop-influenced song cycle about life's big moments. Through Sunday. Adams House Pool Theatre. 496-2222. 7:30 p.m. $5, $4 Adams House residents, available at Sanders Theatre Box Office and BosTix...