Word: poeticisms
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Newmark, a paunchy 51-year-old programmer with a fondness for science fiction, started Craigslist in 1995 as an informal list of Bay Area social events. He waxes poetic about Craigslist's unusual business mission to create a commons that the company maintains rather than a product that it sells. Buckmaster, an intense, analytical Spock to Newmark's Captain Kirk, is the implementer of that vision. He and Newmark use the word customer to describe Craigslist's users, but no one has ever paid a dime to use the site. Craigslist's only revenue, projected to be as much...
...19th century critic talking about a naked lady. At least that critic was aspiring to a discussion of meaning, even if he was only applying an a priori cultural norm. The most I can do right now is admit that the Disney Hall looks pretty damn cool and wax poetic about my experience of it. Of course I’m not really planning to retreat into nostalgia for the unproblematic meaning of the past, but I don’t intend to spend my future passing judgments on what’s cool and what?...
Dylan, who turned 63 in May, rose to prominence in the early 1960s for his poetic protest songs, such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are A-Changin,” and distinctive nasal voice and folk guitar strumming...
...very interesting and very readable,” said Thomas, who taught a seminar on poetic translations a couple of years ago. “I am expecting an enjoyable and stimulating semester...
...novel, originally published in China in 1996, is the first of Ran Chen's works to appear in English. At times her poetic style weighs down the story, but she's a seductively intimate writer and a powerful commentator on the perils of China's giddy embrace of capitalism. Chen's main character proves that it's often the most scared, the most hurt, the most rejected who can show the lemming-like masses where they're headed. And in this case, the cliff looks dangerously close. Lu Xun's madman ends his famous diary with the plea: "Save...