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...Atlanta bureau in 1960 - Trillin has penned dispatches on topics as diverse as Kansas City barbecue and finding parking spots in Manhattan, as well as acclaimed memoirs like About Alice, a remembrance of his late wife. Trillin's new book, Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme, traces the campaign in verse...
...Later on, though, her poetry varies greatly: “Their wings lack hands. / Their mouths lack teeth. / Their pelvises lack a bladder.” Étienne reinterprets the “sonnet” as a structure based not around meter or rhyme but emotion. For her, the restrictions of the sonnet are restrictions meant to be overcome. The interactions between theater and life also occupies a central place in this universe. Étienne spent 10 years working on the French experimental theater scene, and she seems to have taken from it an appreciation...
...daily water usage by installing environmentally-friendly showerheads and toilets in dormitories. A helpful illustration adjacent to the toilet neatly summarizes the features of the new “dual-flush” technology—a more sophisticated, and more hygienic, version of an old scatological rhyme that recommends to “let it mellow...
...Paper Trail.” So titled because T.I. actually wrote down his verses for the first time since his debut LP, “Paper Trail” is unsurprisingly the most lucid and lyrically punchy album that he has yet put out. While his metaphors and rhyme schemes are rarely exceptional, Tip’s delivery is on point, and he cultivates a variety of catchy hooks and different flows. Take his verse on the superstar-studded “Swagga Like Us,” where T.I. outshines the likes of Jay-Z, Kanye, and Lil Wayne...
...sperminator—came out way back in 1985. The rebuttal from a Taiwanese team (also honored at this year’s Igs) which proved that Coke actually has no contraceptive properties, has been around since 1987. And for generations, we have reciting that famous folk-medicine rhyme: “Rinse out your hole-a with post-coital cola...