Word: loudnesses
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...visiting a European capital and you'd like to take in some of the sights. But you're not so keen on shelling out for an expensive tourist bus to be assailed by a loud commentary. So why not try public transport? It's cheap, it's fun to sit among the locals, and certain bus and tram routes are so scenic they could have been set specifically with sightseers in mind. Here's a roundup of the best routes: Berlin: Journey through recent German history on the No. 100 double-decker bus as it crosses from the former West...
...maimed and stunted siblings,” Vendler wrote about this new collection which contains over 100 poems, drafts, and fragments. Bishop, who taught at Harvard from 1970 to 1977, published less than 90 poems in six collections during her lifetime. Vendler’s voice of criticism, while loud, has been mostly alone. Writing in The New Criterion, William Logan, a poet and professor at the University of Florida, noted that “readers will be grateful to find the best of this raw material gathered by Alice Quinn.” David Orr, a poetry columnist...
Perhaps Brown’s plain-as-potatoes prose and wooden narration makes the book too Mickey Mouse for us. Or maybe the hype is just too loud. What business does such a straightforward thriller have selling so well...
...mocked relentlessly (both to your face and behind your back to everyone in your dining hall) if they hear your new love of M. Bolton. Whatever. Sometimes you just have to love your “repeat 1” setting and go with it. Turning it up loud enough to cover the taunts and laughter of your roommates may help...
...Sensenbrenner and Kennedy bills, was in full retreat - literally leaving the building through the basement passageways into the Russell Senate office building. At the end of the day, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, Cornyn's co-sponsor, was left alone proposing a series of amendments and wishing out loud that Cornyn were still there to offer some of them himself. Each went down to defeat as Kennedy sat, Buddha-like and in complete control, casting proxy votes in his deep baritone for several Democrats who were not present - and, in one amusing absent-minded moment, even for one, Senator Herb...