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Taylor is most pleased with Hoelting’s playing when she earnestly digs into a slow, soulful version of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” tapping her foot nearly as loudly as Taylor taps his and keeping a slow, steady nursery-rhyme pace. “Excuse me,” Taylor says to Hoelting when she finishes singing. “You were making beautiful, credible music...
...Life’s On The Line,” even though it’s not true. We like 50 Cent, his brashness, his boldness, even the bulletproof vest that has become his trademark fashion accessory. He may not enunciate as well as Em, or rhyme as wittily as Snoop, but for now he’s getting rich, he has two songs in the top 50—and what else matters...
...these days, Barman is less likely to let rhyme dictate content. Amid the rapid-fire wordplay and locker-room humor on Paullelujah!, he speaks extensively of political issues, a topic he currently calls his “highest interest...
More than 4 million Miss Spider books are in print, making the series as big a seller as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes. How did she snare so many buyers? The stories are gentle and told in rhyme ("'If I had friends like these,' she sighed,/ 'Who'd stay a while with me,/I'd sit them down on silken chairs/And serve them cakes and tea'"), but the illustrations are what seals the deal. Kirk, who majored in art at the Cleveland Institute of Art, paints Miss Spider's rotund little body and curlicue hair in bold, almost hallucinatory...
Orenstein locates the fairy tale’s earliest ancestor in a 17th-century oral folktale, “The Grandmother’s Tale,” and reproduces a version from the French countryside. Creepy and grotesque, the story is anything but a nursery rhyme. The wolf, waiting eagerly in bed, feeds the little girl (here, sans red riding hood) a jar of her grandmother’s blood and then coaxes her to perform a slow striptease. With each garment removed, he urges her, “Throw it on the fire, my child. You won?...