Word: haiku
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Indeed the Guardian's poetry competition may have prove just that. Aside from a few barely intelligible verses fitted with squiggly symbols, most entries read like bad haiku transliterated from the Japanese. Which is why the critics...
...sits atop a Plexiglas pedestal engraved with the words THIS SPHERE WILL BE A SHARP POINT WHEN IT GETS TO THE FAR CORNERS OF THE ROOM IN YOUR MIND. You can try lending weight to this by comparing it to the gentle paradoxes of Zen and the subtleties of haiku. In the show's catalog, Alexandra Munroe, the director of Japan Society Gallery, who curated this show, tries. But no one would blame you if Peanuts also came to mind...
...weigh the pros and cons of dorm life went over well too. "I'm going though some of these same things," said Layra, 17. On the downside, they found the overall format and design dull. Unlike Alloy and Bolt, which pulsate with colors, animations and links, Kibu's haiku look--which features nothing but a series of faces on the opening page--got old fast. "It's too flat," said Aurin, 17. Others scoffed at topics like how to write a love letter ("If you need help writing a love letter, you're not in love," said Sheresa...
...eliminate undergraduate haiku stinks like a dead horse...
...free e-mail at ihateclowns.com, participate in chats about the evils of clowns, play an animated punch-a-clown game, review "34 reasons why you should hate clowns" (Reason #14: "A clown ate the dog that ate my homework") and even compose anti-clown poetry, such as this haiku: "Clowns mess up our kids / And anger all their parents / Clowns are evil things...