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Performance poetry is nothing new, but the point of the Slam is to knock your opponents out of competition--a boxing ring with literary types. Brown and his wife Patricia Smith brought the Slam to Boston from Chicago, where competitive poetry reading has been part of the scene for years. Local poets come to the Bookcellar every week to perform their pieces for the audience and for randomly chosen judges, who hold up Olympic-style scorecards. Poets steel themselves for rejection; the audience cheers or growls for their favorites. The more reaction, the better...
...complain on an empirical level: If one were to compress all the dialogue that the protagonist, Tom Riley (James Marshall), delivers throughout the film, excluding grunts and growls, one would not fill even the time it takes him to knock out a bloodied opponent in the ring...
...knock, knock, knock on people's door's" says Chapman. She adds that their average donation...
Second, Brown must lose to either Princeton or Pennsylvania, which is extremely plausible since the Tigers and the Quakers are both talented teams, hungry to knock off the first-place Bears...
Dartmouth Coach Dave Faucher's relative success with a Princetonesque slow-motion offense is a knock on all those who attribute Tiger Coach Peter Carril's 451 wins to superior talent and recruiting. Maybe the old guy knows what he's doing...