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...changes in word choice, rhyme, fulllines--we get a sense of what he was about in theact of poetic creation," she said...

Author: By Susan A. Chen, | Title: Harvard May Bid $10,000 For Poem | 6/6/1995 | See Source »

...owner and hater of thieves drug-dealers, and white people. After saving McClane's life early in the movie, Zeus comes along for the ride, helping McClane to solve the riddles and do the things that "Simon says." (The film-makers are careful to use every pun and nursery rhyme they can think of with the name Simon...

Author: By Benjamin Cavell, | Title: `DIE HARD' LIVES AGAIN | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

...poets drawn to rhyme and meter, Merrill was a source of inspiration and intimidation-a salutary reminder that a poem's "finish" is rarely finished. Among those for whom formal verse seemed passa, he was accorded a notably ungrudging respect: there was simply no gainsaying his mastery, his seriousness, his artistic probity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIANT IN ALL WEATHERS: JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995) | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...help explain his ability to satisfy so wide an audience. He was a master of the graceful exit, the teasing diminuendo. He had a fondness for half-concealing his cleverest effects, so that you might have to read a poem two or three times before you detect the rhyme of "dirigible" with "unmarriageable" or "rosy" with "Mafiosi." Dexterity was simply one of the givens of his work-as was his erudition, his homosexuality, his wealth, his cosmopolitan life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIANT IN ALL WEATHERS: JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995) | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...National Agrarian Institute's plan to distribute land to campesinos who, she claimed, would sell it to foreign investors. Police are focusing their investigation on two peasant groups. DIED. JAMES MERRILL, 68, American poet who chronicled experiences and emotions from his own life with intricately crafted, eclectic blends of rhyme and meter; of a heart attack; while on vacation in Tucson, Arizona. The son of a founding partner of the stock-brokerage firm Merrill Lynch, he had a remarkably productive career that included plays, fiction, 14 volumes of verse and the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. DIED. J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 20, 1995 | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

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