Word: quatrain
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...this record. Lead single “Waving Flags,” with its patriotic refrain, straddles the line between uplifting and ironic. It’s tough to pinpoint exactly what the song’s message is, but the lyrics distinctly focus on alcohol, especially in the quatrain “Beer is not dark / Beer is not light / It just tastes good / Especially tonight.” Second single “No Lucifer” begins with a subtle reverb effect birthing a somber violin-guitar duet, which then bursts into a My Bloody Valentine-esque...
...interests, searching out the underappreciated overachievers, the local good-deed-doers. On other news-and-entertainment shows, an editor might dump a story on a worthy anonymity; ?CBS SM? would say that attention must be paid. At the end of his last show, in 1994, Kuralt recited this childlike quatrain: ??Remember, please, when I am gone, / ?Twas aspiration led me on. / Tiddly-widdly, toodle-oo, / All I want is to stay with you.? But here I go.? He died three years later...
...poem, "Lorelay," set to music by Friedrich Silcher, has some of the melancholia (if not the elfin wit) that marked many Hart lyrics: "I do not know what haunts me,/ What saddened my mind all day;/ An age-old tale confounds me,/ A spell I cannot allay." And a quatrain Heine wrote for his wife Therese - "You're lovely as a flower,/ So pure and fair to see;/ I look at you, and sadness/ Comes stealing over me" - is echoed in Hart's pathetic, lifelong obsession with women. His need for them was exceeded only by his belief that they...
...verse proved spurious (it seems to have been composed well before the attacks by a student trying to prove just how open to interpretation a Nostradamus-style quatrain really is) but that didn’t prevent it from gaining wide currency on the Internet...
...still-circulating “Nostradamus” quatrain attests, vague warnings are seductive. They create a feeling of our being in control of an otherwise uncontrolled and uncontrollable situation: We feel that we know what’s going to happen. But the future can’t be predicted—not by a sixteenth-century mystic, not by someone writing in the style of a sixteenth-century mystic, and not by the Bush administration. To imagine that it can is to succumb to the worst sort of superstition...