Word: poetesses
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...something poetic about the imperfect image on “¿Dónde Están los Ladrones?”, to go along with the suffering and quirky songs. On the cover of “She Wolf,” she is not a poetess but a poetette, little more than a two-bit Britney...
...what the studio presumably told the screenwriters, Mike Thompson and Brandon Camp, who also directed. To that end, we have Judy Greer and Dan Fogler. Greer has made a career of playing the wry best friend (27 Dresses, 13 Going on 30, The Wedding Planner). She plays Marty, a poetess, flower arranger and dispenser of advice to Eloise, and as usual, she's cute, funny and charming enough to be able to recite a poem featuring a phallus without making you hate her. Fogler plays Burke's manager Lane. Lane is plump, sweaty and initially seems so eager to cash...
...hope wounds will start to heal," said Ruth Padel, blinking earnestly as flashbulbs popped. Her statement may not have contained the startlingly original imagery that propelled the poetess to prominence, but to her critics it represented a kind of poetry - poetic justice...
...portion of this clutch, there remains little means of creative cultivation, and Davis represents a beacon of hope for the future of poetry on the Harvard campus. Thomas Horrocks, the associate librarian for collections at Houghton, is excited to have been a part of the board that appointed the poetess as curator. “We wanted someone here for outreach to the faculty, and for student involvement, and we wanted to bring in someone who has done that,” he says. “We think she is the one to move this forward...
...Copy Desk also assesses the evolution of usage in the U.S. A current priority is to eliminate language that is considered sexist. All but gone are such implicitly pejorative nouns as poetess, murderess, coed and comedienne. Sighs Blair: "I have tried to eliminate waitress and actress too, but we have not come that far yet." Well, each thing in its own time...