Word: rhymed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Another firm boasted in its advertisements in this newspaper about how it “put a poet in charge of designing an automated trading block.” I can see Emily Dickinson scrawling slant rhyme over a life of corporate drudgery now—I had never entertained the thought / of running Lehman’s automated trading block...
...worded missives. In the meantime, someone has to figure this out: Is it Minuteman or Minutemen? (Or, perhaps, Two-Pump Chump?) The groups's official name is the Minuteman Project, singular, but their troops are collectively known as the Minutemen, plural. The Spec has used both, with no clear rhyme or reason, and it's time to standardize for the sake of style mavens everywhere...
...promoted as a concert, the band—sporting an array of motorcycle jackets, floppy hats, and sunglasses—continued to delight with a short 10-song set. Like their attire, the Ladies’ set list was eclectic, ranging from the newly-released Bush-bashing rhyme “Fun and Games” to the accordion-driven classic “If I Had A Million Dollars.” The band displayed its humorous bent, improvising a nonsensical song in the middle of discussion with the moderator, Tracy E. Nowski ’07, and playing...
...dealer on the corners of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood but got credibility from his way with rap rather than his rap sheet. Tupac was more prolific (when he died, he left some 150 unreleased songs; Biggie, who was 24 when he died, left none). But Biggie's intricate rhyme schemes, impeccable rhythm and perverse sense of humor made him a god among rap cognoscenti. In death, however, it is Tupac who has emerged as the artist and Biggie as a problem for law enforcement...
...VOTES OR DIE TRYING Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons stumps for G.O.P. Senate candidate Michael Steele of Maryland, causing Republican consultants' heads to explode. We can just envision D.N.C. chairman Howard Dean working up a response song that would try to rhyme rap standard Gin and Juice with "impeach Bush...