Word: epigrams
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...world domination, and it certainly has never had to cope without its one true CEO, known within the company as T.K. The moment he stepped aside last week, the company shut itself up more securely than a city-state under siege, leaving observers jostling to deliver the most ironic epigram. "There were rumors not so long ago of Yahoo buying Disney," offered Jupiter senior analyst Aram Sinnreich. "Now they'd be lucky if Disney buys them." The company, once worth $134 billion, is now valued at less than $10 billion...
...point--the challenge of genuinely articulating our existence--a key event becomes Eddie's reaction to a certain note left behind by a friends who, well went away for a long trip. The note is one sentence long and sounds like a poorly translated fortune cookie or other mocked epigram of your choice. Eddie reads it, rereads it, challenges fellow Hollywood exec Mickey (Kevin Spacey) with it, parses it, looks up the dictionary definitions for its component words, angrammizes it, does virtually everything but paper his walls with it and make a website for it. Penn looks most frighteningly...
...ambitious hinterlander who took the cultural establishment by storm ("I am not English, I am Irish--which is quite another thing," he stipulated). And here's the coup de grace: reviled as the leading bad influences of their day, both the King of Rock and the King of the Epigram have been resurrected as secular saints, albeit with slightly different constituencies...
Harvard garnered another Latin epigram this Saturday: Harvars longa, fortuna breva, pecunia fugienta...
While the same cannot be said for Galway Kinnell's poetry--it's full of flights of fancy and elaborate metaphors--it nevertheless shares with Hall's a quality of being designed for performance. The title of the volume, Imperfect Thirst, comes from the book's aptly chosen epigram: "If your eyes are not deceived by the mirage/Do not be proud of the sharpness of your understanding;/It may be your freedom from this optical illusion/Is due to the imperfection of your thirst." In other words, skepticism is the sign of spiritual deformity, rather than a necessary sign...