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...Whenever I stumble upon one of these gems, I’m reminded of that Billy Collins poem, “Marginalia,” describing the selfsame phenomenon: “One scrawls ‘Metaphor’ next to a stanza of Eliot’s. / Another notes the presence of ‘Irony’ / Fifty times outside the paragraphs of A Modest Proposal...
...skits poking fun at about both South Asian and non-South-Asian culture. The show began on a mellow note. Female performers in brightly colored traditional garb kept the rhythm with bells wrapped around their ankles while performing a classical dance. It was followed by one of three traditional poems, read in an Indian language and translated into English for the audience. The poem “This Monsoon Descends” investigated the co-existence of love and pain in the world. The pace soon picked up in an energetic Tamil dance in which dancers in bright orange dress...
Then the serpent came. Vinny pulled into Jenny’s driveway on his cool, training wheels-less bike one day. Thinking he needed help on that day’s homework, a name-acronym poem, I was already thinking of words that begin with the letter V when he walked over towards me...and my bike—my pink, four-wheel bike...
Amazed at Jenny’s betrayal, I endured a good 10 minutes of laughter and ridicule before I realized I had constructed his entire name poem in my mind. Having completed that task jolted me awake, and I realized it was probably foolish to just stand there taking it. I got on my bike and rolled away, hoping that my four wheels would carry me faster than they usually...
...executive producer, the film has the budget to make environmental activism not only engaging but also cinematically stunning.Footage from the last thirty years is seamlessly interwoven with eerie shots of Austin’s underground aquifer and a haunting voice-over reading Wendell Berry’s poem “Santa Clara Valley.” Shots contrasting the hills of thirty or even fifteen years ago with the bleak suburbs of today provide a visual counterpart to the sprawl outlined in maps and diagrams throughout the film.But Dunn’s real coup is the interviews, in which...