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...last, a bedroom where the walls do speak. On the door, a sign warns, DANGER, KEEP OUT! THIS ROOM IS GUARDED BY A TRAINED ATTACK GYMNAST. Sweeping left, a Legends of the Fall poster featuring teen idol Brad Pitt is tacked beside a poem titled "Don't Quit." Religious icons hang above the double bed; a handmade quilt hides the outsize teddy-bear slippers stashed below. Though the third wall boasts framed magazine covers of the room's tenant, the reverie of choice is taped to the desk lamp: Brad Pitt. Above the desk, a fanciful collection of macrame dream...
...power is clout, like the thud of an iron heel. Influence is sway, like being rocked in a hammock. But like the grass in Carl Sandburg's poem, influence has a way of spreading until it overwhelms every bump in its path. Leonid Brezhnev had power. Andrei Sakharov had influence. Power: the FCC. Influence: Howard Stern. What this means is that influence generally gets the last laugh. Alexander Hamilton never attained the presidency. His philosophical antagonist Thomas Jefferson did. But the world has gone Hamilton's way. By most measures, the country we live in today more closely resembles...
...emotional moment, Peimer read a poem she had recently sent to all her friends to thank them for being supportive. She then revealed that she was the individual who was attacked last month on Linden Street near Adams House...
This was an all-too-convenient time for Americans to forget the poem by the Russian Jewish immigrant Emma Lazarus engraved upon the statue of liberty...
...geography were truly destiny when it comes to public speaking, clips of Dole campaign appearances would not bring to mind 1992 stump talks by George Bush of Greenwich, Connecticut, whose approach to public discourse inspired me to write, in a farewell poem to him, "Your predicates were often prone/ To wander, nounless, off alone...