Word: lyric
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...movie you love? Every musical performance in there was great. The only one I didn't like was where John Travolta danced with Christopher Walken. That's the only scene that was a little shaky, with the two guys dancing. But to me, every scene, every dance, every lyric resonated. That and Dreamgirls - those movies are modern masterpieces. A lot of people don't recognize the power of Broadway. When I was first successful, about 1998, when I was living very wealthy, I was always going to Broadway shows. From Chicago to Rent to Ragtime...
...about entering the most random thoughts and ideas into your notebook—things you would otherwise simply forget (and even forget you forgot). I have one notebook called “Misheard but Good Lyrics” for those occasional songs I listen to and think: Damn, that lyric would have been so much better if they had used this other word instead. Listen to “A Dustland Fairytale” by The Killers and tell me the phrase “night gown” shouldn’t be replaced with “night...
...Houghton Library.Armitage’s profile has been steadily rising over the past 15 years since he quit his job as a probation officer and became a full-time poet. His output is marked by an impressive versatility; he has written for radio and TV, produced song lyrics for award-winning musical documentaries, and translated a gem of the medieval literary canon, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” into modern English verse. Primarily, though, he is a lyric poet, specializing in “lively, mysterious, revelatory” poems, according to English...
...Armitage was amazing, brilliant, and hilarious.” Armitage is the vice president of the Poetry Society and a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, He has been described by Harvard English Professor and leading American poetry critic Helen Vendler as “a narrative poet in lyric dress, or a lyric poet in narrative dress.” The event was sponsored by the Harvard English Department. —Staff writer Manning Ding can be reached at ding3@fas.harvard.edu...
...Vanguard trio, the Greenbriar Boys, expressed resentment when PP&M used their arrangement of the English ballad "Stewball" for yet another hit single. But Seeger said he was pleased by PP&M's version of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," which he had adapted from a Cossack lyric (and to which folk singer Joe Hickerson added the final verses). Voilà! One more antiwar ballad to insinuate its thesis into the minds of the vast AM-radio audience...