Word: poeticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I chose a college, I figured that Harvard's proximity to Fenway Park was a huge plus; I'd soon be loving the Red Sox almost as dearly as I prize my Orioles. But I can't wax poetic about Fenway the way I could about Memorial Stadium, because it's just not my home. Roger Clemens charges money for an autograph. Repeat: he charges for a signature. At each game, I hear a new complaint: "Jody Reed sucks!" "Mike Greenwell's an overpaid bum!" "Find me a relief pitcher...
...their particularly rousing "Ring the Bells," lead singer Tim Booth's throaty voice urges us to examine our lives, and to take control. His poetic, paradoxical lyrics ("When you let me die my spirit's free/ There's nothing challenging me") incite us to accept the unfortunate and grow from...
...Close By" offers less noise but replaces it with bothersome rhyming--ostensibly only for rhyming's sake. One quite comical stanza of poetic silliness is: "Ya see I've been clickin these heels to gether/hoping for a change in the weather/puttin on a hat with a yellow feather/ya see I wanna make it all better. "I wonder, is the phrase "yellow feather" a reference to some little-know Shakespearian drama, or is it just the first phrase that Gutterboy found to fit the "-ether" rhyme scheme? Hmmm...
...This is poetic justice," Beys said in theinterview afterwards. "Whatever mistakes I madewith the Spin Doctors ... were redeemed by theunanimous vote. The council knows that the lastthree weeks of work and fighting have been for thesake of the students...
...tone of his narration abruptly shifts in the second half of the movie, after Santana is paroled. The protagonist resumes his role as drug kingpin, but the poetic voice-overs are gone. Santana struggles with everything. He clashes with rival gangs and with formerly loyal lieutenants like J.D., a "half-breed" played in old-time gangster style by William Forsythe...