Word: rhymes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rhyme most gravely when the royalty ails...
Hart is throwing out tantalizing hints of a Stop-Mondale alliance with Jesse Jackson "between June 6 and the convention." He is even starting to speak in Jacksonian cadence and rhyme. Said Hart in Albuquerque last week: "Ronald Reagan wants women only behind ironing boards; I think they should be members of the board . . . they should have more say and they should have more...
...lameness of the dialogue--much of it in stylized rhyme--suggests another problem stemming from the script's unpopularity--bad translation. Though program notes refer the Jens Arup translation to a 1962 edition of Ibsen, the play's diction betrays all the self-conscious "translationese" of the turn of the century--even to the using the word "poesy" for "poetry" here and there. Faced with the need to make lines like "Can you not re-weld the link you tore asunder?" and "Am I to hallmark your complacency?" sound natural, director Holly Swartz takes the logical strategy of stylizing...
...David Chase are uniformly tuneful and sturdily orchestrated enough to carry the audience over the weak spots in the lyrics. Another help is the able choreography by Karen Maria Pisani. Watching those exemplary pelvic thrusts really passes the time while you're waiting for the inevitable "wives" to rhyme with "lives," and the dancers always deliver--although, truth be told, real go-go girls wouldn't bump into their own breasts quite so often...
...Debutantes or Since Ma Got the Craze Espagnole? But the best remain fresh and audacious in form as well as style. Begin the Beguine was the longest popular song ever written: 108 measures, as against the standard 32. Night and Day has an A-B-A-B-C-B rhyme scheme, rarely heard before or since...