Word: rhymed
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...sandwich with which to pay him. “Hip hop is so wack, the beats are fighting back,” Lif declaims on “Return of the B-Boy,” a seven and a half minute epic that morphs from a funky battle rhyme to a sparse drum-driven speed verse in which Lif realises that his greatest opponent is himself...
...kind who deals with grief by building small scale models of churches, factories and houses, then stomping them to splinters until his feet bleed. Carl is a newspaper reporter working on a series about sudden infant death syndrome. Along the way he discovers a children's book containing a rhyme that can kill when the possessor reads it to anyone or even thinks it in his or her direction. Having memorized the fatal lines, Carl now holds that power. So, it turns out, does Helen Hoover Boyle, a brassy Realtor whose specialty is selling haunted houses to unsuspecting buyers--there...
...heard a word of Nash in my college courses on New Criticism, So I will now exert all my analytic powers to convert his witticism to Holy Writicism. His forte was the metrical line so unbalanced as to be bonkers, For while other poets, even after they had renounced rhyming as old-hat, would still compose verse in a familiar meter, Nash would keep a line going longer than a Bishop Sheen speech or a Jerry Colonna note, while winding toward some tortured rhyme and keeping readers guessing whether he'd finish up in Yonkers, or call certain people schwankers...
...year career he wrote for Life and Look, for Harper's and Harper's Bazaar, for Woman's Day and Playboy, and even for Hallmark. And if Sam Walton has asked him to, Nash might have produced verse for Wal-mart, except that to force a rhyme he would've called it Wallmark. But his main place of business was The New Yorker, which over a period of 40 years, or approximately 520 moons, Published some 300 of his pieces as the verbal equivalent to their famous cartoons...
...joke than a platitude, Since a comedian requires ingenuity, while a humorist can coast on a querulous attitude. As the '50s ceded to the '60s, and the psychological to the psychedelic, Nash acquired the attic odor of a literary relic. The simple notion of an exact, if eccentric rhyme, Which Nash shared with the best lyricists of his generation, no longer applied in a day when songwriters twinned "June" with "broom" and "time" with "mine." Like Parker and Peter Arno, he represented The New Yorker's vanished ages. He vanished from the magazine's history, never once mentioned by Brendan...