Word: poeticisms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reputation is so low that he has "nothin' left to lose" in letting Libby off the hook. But while Janis Joplin's powerful performance of Me and Bobby McGee certainly knocked it out of the park, let's give Kris Kristofferson credit for composing the classic words of that poetic song. Jerry Evans, DUANE LAKE, NEW YORK...
...reputation is so low that he has "nothin' left to lose" in letting Libby off the hook. But while Janis Joplin's powerful performance of Me and Bobby McGee knocked it out of the park, let's give Kris Kristofferson credit for composing the classic words of that poetic song...
...Giants clubbed Los Angeles Dodgers catcher John Roseboro on the head with a bat. He also had the nerve to eject a manager in the World Series: Baltimore's voluble Earl Weaver, in the fourth game of the 1969 series with the New York Mets, the eventual champs. In poetic lockstep, his sons followed in Dad's officiating footsteps--Jerry in baseball and Joey in the NBA. Crawford...
David von Drehle's piece about the courage of firefighters such as those who died recently in a Charleston, S.C., fire was a poetic and visceral description of emergency workers' tremendous bravery [July 2]. Sometimes chaos does win over science. Thank you for reminding us that heroes do their job every day. They deserve our thanks, respect...
...Miners played East Texas University, now Texas A&M-Commerce, and Aggies were enraged at their depiction as racist. While the Miners were derided and experienced racism during their rise to glory, the depiction of Aggie fans as racist was historically inaccurate, critics said; Hudgins said the movie used poetic license in the scene to symbolize several real incidents. With Aggie sensibilities so offended, state senate finance committee chairman Steve Ogden, a Republican whose district includes Texas A&M University, plugged in the conditions clause and no amount of lobbying by a mobilized Texas film industry could dislodge...