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...Armitage’s poems that drew laughter from the listeners. Another poem, titled “The Shout,” contained the lines “We were testing the range / of the human voice.” Armitage said that the poem, which recounted a childhood memory in northern England, “has become something of a signature tune.” “I think it just helps to locate me a little bit, where I’m from, the subjects I write about,” he said of the poem. Many...
...Texas Tech University. The ordeal was wrenching: Cole wept during the nights as he awaited a trial that would sentence him to 25 years in jail. Twice during his prison term he was found unconscious in his cell, a result of the asthma that had plagued him since childhood. The third time he suffered an attack, Dec. 2, 1999, he died from heart failure. Then, in 2007, another man confessed to the crime and Cole was declared innocent. Texas lawmakers wept at the tale; as a result, the state with the reputation for being the toughest on crime came...
...Your childhood in Scotland sounded very dreary and sort of Oliver Twist-y. You say that kids formed gangs based on whether they were Protestant or Catholic. Basically, teenagers fought each other over obscure 17th century religious issues. Did they have any idea what they were fighting about? No, I don't think people who are involved in sectarian violence are theologians. It was just about gang colors...
...They toss out stock adolescent protests like “You don’t even know me” from time to time, but their main role is on their mother’s coattails. The plot itself is supposed to be at least loosely based on the childhood of perennially bronzed Hollywood has-been George Hamilton, but this could easily escape the average viewer’s notice. These blemishes are also negligible, as the movie truly belongs to Zellweger and to her odyssey. Like most American sojourns, the characters end up in Los Angeles, west of where...
...says. “But then I saw people smiling at my work, and thought giving people my paintings was a way to make them smile. And then I’d get more smiles too.”With a collection of characters he has been sketching since childhood, Bataclan’s work easily lends itself to inspiring this kind of warmth amongst strangers. His “cartoon-inspired acrylic paintings” feature figures that appear in bright colors with accoutrements such as antennas and bug eyes rendered adorable by the wide grins on their faces...