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...respect and acknowledge the area there, and I can see it now...through the poems,” Armitage said. “Occasionally, people will describe me as a Northern writer. But if it describes what the poem is about, then I take it as a compliment.” Rachael L. Goldberg ’12 said that Armitage’s reading exposed her to a new experience, “Reading his poems and hearing him read them were two very different experiences,” she said. “Simon Armitage was amazing, brilliant...
...guilt trip worked. "This is not a form letter," Hughes wrote in response. Hughes went on to say he was sorry, that he received a lot of mail and couldn't respond to everything. He enjoyed her letter and would relay the compliment to Nelson. And with that, Alison Byrne Fields and John Hughes became pen pals...
...large number of original sketches, films, and paintings supplement the primary focus of the exhibition: Calder’s wire sculptures, described as “drawings in space.” The industrial aesthetic of Calder’s visual gymnastics even seems unintentionally to compliment the exposed framework of Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers’s architecture at the Centre Pompidou...
...everyone sees the Rothko comparison as a compliment. A Hindustan Times column sniffed that it is a patronizing "reflex of lost Empire" to praise ancient Indian painters through the works of modern Western ones. "The British Museum is a robber's cave and testimonial to the 'engulf and devour' Western worldview that Asia and Africa know intimately to their considerable cost," the column continued. True, the British Museum and Kew Gardens were founded in the 1750s, when Britain bestrode the world. But in a year when a Bollywood-style movie triumphed at the Oscars, when pundits have taken to warning...
...begins with SexyMom, says she's been married for 20 years but started using the site four months ago because her husband constantly turned down sex and refused marriage counseling. "It's like the seven-year itch, but 20 years later," she says. "My husband never throws me a compliment. Now I meet guys who say, 'You're so hot,' or 'You have great eyes...