Word: haiku
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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East Asian languages and civilizations: “A haiku, ‘Cinnamon roll.’ O cinnamon roll / Sweet and delicious you are / I crave you Wednesdays...
...there’s self-referential haiku...
...haiku about haiku...
Through it all, Rove wore his war room on his belt--the postcard-size BlackBerry communicator that holds his unmatchable Rolodex as well as his e-mail system, through which he squirted orders and suggestions to campaign workers and lobbyists using only a few words. "It's like haiku," says a political operative who has been on the receiving end. During meetings--even ones with the President--Rove would constantly spin the BlackBerry's dial and punch out text on its tiny keyboard. "Sometimes we're in a meeting talking to each other and BlackBerrying each other at the same...
...follow waiters and salesclerks around for half an hour to get an intimate view of what their lives were like. "I wrote it as an exercise--just for fun," he says. Writing in real time, he adds, is easier than he thought it would be: "It's like a haiku or a sonnet. The rules are fun. And you don't have to deal with exposition. You don't have to lie with exits and entrances and wrapping things...