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...looks back, Wilbur acknowledges that he often worked at odds with evolving fashions. He did not pick up the rhythm of the Beats or the lacerating self-display of such confessional poets as Sylvia Plath. "It just comes naturally to me to work in meters, rhyme, stanza forms. There were times when it seemed dreadfully stuffy, in some sense reactionary, to write in that manner. I have no case against any other way of writing. I did what I could...
MOLIERE was a rhyme-happy...
Jackson likes to talk in rhyme and think in metaphor; Dukakis is as poetic as a slide rule. Jackson, the college quarterback, is a scrambler, an improviser, a mixer; Dukakis, the college runner, is essentially a loner who learned the Greek monos mou (by myself) as his first words. Jackson sweats, gestures, emotes, preaches when giving a speech. Dukakis uses a terminal monotone and metronomic motions. Where Dukakis is cerebral and calculating, Jackson is visceral and physical. During a joint appearance in New York, as Jackson succeeded Dukakis at the lectern, the Governor shook hands as they passed. That...
...when sister stations KGO-TV in San Francisco and KABC-TV in Los Angeles hired former California Chief Justice Rose Bird to do twice-weekly commentaries for their evening newscasts. Bird, who was voted off the bench in 1986, made a shaky debut when she delivered a commentary in rhyme on the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. KGO then added former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, out of office just two months, as an occasional analyst. Her first topic: the Bay City's budget deficit, and why it is not her fault...
...instead of phrases like "I hope I die before I get old" we have a slew of post-30 "artists" spewing out still more songs featuring permutations of the rhyme "fire" and "desire." But they're not the worst. Rock 'n' rollers don't have a pension plan; once they spend their money on drugs, they have to go out and earn some more, and even aging pop icons have the right to work...