Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only rehearsed in my head, but it was as wonderful to hear lines from his new translation of Beowulf. His wry running commentary--that the genre demanded the heroic "Charlton Heston or Clint Eastwood bit" or that he pictured the monster Grendel as a sort of "reeking dog-breath in the dark"--helped to underscore that Heaney was coming at the old staple of high school English classes from a refreshing new angle...
...laden Seattle firm that was trying to build a national cellular network. He was second in command to Craig McCaw when AT&T bought the company for $11.5 billion. Not ready to call it quits, Barksdale needed one last bite of the apple: he wanted to finally be top dog somewhere. That's why, when a headhunter called to see if he was interested in applying for a job as fourth man out at nearby Microsoft, he declined. And that's why, when Doerr called to see if he was interested in running a company that was building a piece...
...apudgy guy, with curly blond hair. Todd Trainer isthe ugliest man alive--he looks like Splinter fromthe Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. All of them canplay the hell out of their instruments. Theystarted with "The Guy Who Invented Fire" and thenplayed all the memorable songs from the firstalbum--"A Minute," "Dog and Pony Show," "TheAdmiral"--and many of their less memorable songsfrom their new album, Terraform. Theyclosed with Terraform's interminableopener, "Didn't We Deserve A Look At You The WayYou Really Are." Steve warned us that it would belong and boring and, boy, was it ever...
...student a dog...
...over fifteen years and has traveled several continents, it continues to have about it an air of freshly improvised parody. As with improv, the humor has an underdeveloped quality--potential jokes are left unexploited while the existent ones lack the sharpness of revision. Like the movie Wag the Dog, the premise of Compleat Works is loaded with humorous potential that remains largely unmined. Lines like "a nose by any other name would still smell" are funny but pale when compared to the sardonic text-twisting of Tom Stoppard's comparable Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead...