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...with similar precision: “at the party, she said, / ‘I have an English father and an American mother.../ and at some point I had to choose, so I moved back to London and became the sort of person / who says puh-son instead of purr-son.” Hass carefully details the small stories of each of the characters who appear throughout his poems. This ability to create a convincing narrative seems to be, according to Hass, important for poets. After all, in “August Notebooks: A Death...
...Train Your Dragon won the weekend box-office battle, but with a purr, not a roar. DreamWorks' latest effort in CGI animation earned $43.3 million in its opening three days, according to early studio estimates. That was more than enough for it to dethrone Disney's Alice in Wonderland, which had reigned for the last three weeks and from which it had filched many of the venues that show movies in the zazzier 3-D format, where a $3 or $4 price hike on each ticket is the norm. Still, Dragon's firepower was more tepid than scalding when compared...
...Block's Joey McIntyre in the lobby of an off-Broadway show. I told him he was the first boy I ever loved. He laughed and kind of smiled. This was the most gratifying moment of my life. 23. My friends say that when they shave my back, I purr like a walrus. 24. I don't understand what people see in the Godfather trilogy. 25. Sometimes I think pee smells like Cheerios...
...roar of the Lions was reduced to a kitten’s purr Saturday, as No. 19 Harvard (7-1, 4-1 Ivy) pounded Columbia (1-7, 1-4), 42-28, in front of 12,437 fans at Harvard Stadium.Senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti led a relentless aerial attack on the Lions secondary, throwing for a career-high 376 yards and four touchdowns.He spread the yardage around generously, completing seven passes to sophomore Levi Richards for 103 yards and two touchdowns and six to junior Matt Luft for 110 yards and a score. It was the first time in 33 years...
...fuzzy feeling inside. Here’s to those covers that are just nice eye candy. Yummy! DEWEY: THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO TOUCHED THE WORLD by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter Beautiful, brown, doleful eyes look out from a tawny furry face and just seem to soothingly purr, “Everything’s going to be alright now that Dewey, the small-town library cat, is here.” Sitting on a book in front of shelves of other books, Dewey invites me to just curl up with him right here and fall into...