Word: rhyming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...actually liberating: "I don't find it an inhibition; the interesting part of the policy is that the more I scientifically measure up the ground that's available, the more ideas strike me about what one can do. It's rather like having a limited number of lines and rhyme schemes when you write a sonnet: it doesn't restrict your ideas, it concentrates you ideas and in fact I think improves on some of your thinking because of the restriction that appears to be there...
...Close By" offers less noise but replaces it with bothersome rhyming--ostensibly only for rhyming's sake. One quite comical stanza of poetic silliness is: "Ya see I've been clickin these heels to gether/hoping for a change in the weather/puttin on a hat with a yellow feather/ya see I wanna make it all better. "I wonder, is the phrase "yellow feather" a reference to some little-know Shakespearian drama, or is it just the first phrase that Gutterboy found to fit the "-ether" rhyme scheme? Hmmm...
...These guys from the street carry guns andknives all the time," a police official said."There is no rhyme or reason really...
...General appeals to their sympathy as fellow orphans--the pirates' well-known weak spot. Torbay, decked in britches, cape and sideburns, is the quintessential G&S nobleman, lovable and powerless. His skillful voice and comic ability shine in a song describing the Major General's impractical knowledge recounted in rhyme...
...full name is Raffi Cavoukian, but during his 14 years as a troubadour to the nursery-rhyme set he achieved the type of international renown that allows people to become known only by their first name. With his throaty voice, chocolate-sweet eyes and zippy rhythms, he provided intelligent amusement to millions of boys and girls who might otherwise be transported to the Saturday- morning cartoon swampland of death rays and superheroes. In the process, he was amply rewarded: his 10 albums sold 6 million copies, and he was awarded Canada's highest civilian decoration...