Word: couplets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shifting Thanksgiving from the then customary last Thursday in November (the 30th) to the fourth Thursday (the 23rd) as a way of granting Depression-era merchants a longer Christmas selling season. F.D.R.'s Thanksgiving formula was later codified into federal law, but not before Ogden Nash composed the following couplet...
...poem ends with the couplet, "And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare/ as any she belied with false compare." Shakespeare says that it is not more romantic to idealize some creep than to love someone for one's imperfections. Didn't Blumenthal get to the end of the sonnet? Isn't it a good thing to look below the surface...
...drama without suspense, but the Twins are a thorough surprise. Over 84 fall classics, only the 1973 New York Mets lost more games along the way (81 to 78). In both instances, first at Cincinnati and now Detroit, the playoff victim was Sparky Anderson, who has penned a small couplet on upsets: "It ain't no fun when the rabbit...
...Mark Twain speculated about the old warriors, "there was something very engaging about these great simplehearted creatures, (although) there did not seem to be brains enough . . . to bait a fishhook with." The knight has been Galahad, Don Quixote and every tin soldier, in Robert Louis Stevenson's couplet, "With different uniforms and drills/ Among the bedclothes, through the hills." The chevalier now answers the roll call as Rambo and G.I. Joe. He wears camouflage, may carry an UZI instead of a sword and has a way of setting off unintended explosions of controversy wherever he appears...
...present form, Rice's story has holes to plug and a narrative in need of streamlining, but it offers him a contemporary setting for his favorite theme: the pernicious lure of stardom, whether biblical, political or intellectual. His lyrics mix roguish wit (Bangkok contains the unlikely couplet "Tea, girls--warm and sweet--warm, sweet/ Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite") with the blistering bitterness of Evita. Andersson and Ulvaeus' score ransacks melodic styles from plainsong to Puccini to Gilbert and Sullivan to Richard Rodgers to Phil Spector to hip-hop, in a rock- symphonic synthesis ripe with...