Word: poeticisms
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...Budapest as second best to their idealized Central European city?. What happens in this novel is not nearly so important as Phillip's wonderful grasp of Budapest's look, style and ethos, and his sometimes sympathetic, often scathing view of the Western interlopers. His writing is swift, often poetic, unerringly exact with voices and subtle details of time, weather and place. This novel is so complete a distillation of its theme and characters that it leaves a reader wondering how on earth Phillips can follow it up...This brilliant book seems certain to be widely and admiringly reviewed...the most...
Scientists waxed poetic at the first-ever Society of Physics Students (SPS) poetry slam last month. At first, none of the 30 students gathered in Lyman 426 were willing to open their mouths—and it wasn’t just because of the eggplant pizza on the table...
...Microsoftie April Fooled when two DJs convince him they're Jean Chr?tien. It's plausible the Canadian PM has nothing to do but crank call NE WIN Burmese ex-dictator's relatives charged with treason, and he's under Suu Kyi-style house arrest. The sound you hear is poetic justice APOLO ANTON OHNO U.S. skater voted "least welcome" by South Korean students. South Koreans obviously haven't been exposed to much Carrot...
...blood filled is Titus, in fact, that Yale humanistic-sage-in-residence Harold Bloom is convinced that it must be a parody of the works of Christopher Marlowe: sensationalistic, and rather less than poetic. “Shakespeare knew it was a howler,” Bloom has written, “and expected the more discerning to wallow in it self-consciously...
...likely the deposed despot would ever give up his dream of ruling again. Not long after he died, the last remnants of his Khmer Rouge signed a peace deal with the government in Phnom Penh, ending a quarter century of civil war. If this is justice, it's poetic-Pol Pot as the Khmer Rouge's final victim...