Word: haiku
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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...
...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...
...Hasty Pudding thespian, was the loudest audience member with his glass of Kenwood merlot. After informing the crowd that he’d “been having some wine” (get out!), Kevin presented some haikus that, charitably, fell under a loose definition of “haiku.” “This Spring I’ll wear high heels / I make a hideous girl / but that’s OK,” he told he audience. And he was right...
...write poems with attention to what sounds good. Sometimes this means that they will have meter or rhyme. Right now I’ve been writing poems using syllabics where each stanza has a pattern of numbers of syllables in each lines—a haiku is a type of syllabic poem. Marianne Moore uses this form a lot in her early poetry. She’s known for precision, she’s interested in classification of things...