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Poetry used to be the emperor of the literary universe, but lately it has been overshadowed by almost every other genre - novels, comic books, self-help - or just channeled into other media, like rock and hip-hop. These days most bookstores stock a few odd volumes on a back shelf, and most of those are written by singer Jewel. But people are still writing poetry and finding ways to say things no other medium can - if you have the time to stop and listen...
Such work resists categories. In theory, Welch could be placed on the gay studies shelf: he was a homosexual, and his female characters are sometimes men in literary drag. But there is nothing erotically explicit in these stories, no precious attempts at special pleading. He could belong with the invalid writers, like Marcel Proust and Flannery O'Connor, whose illnesses gave them a vital solitude. But unlike them, Welch had little interest in society. As his biographer, Michael De-la-Noy, notes, "Politics, literature, indeed the entire world outside his bedroom window, scarcely existed...
...television, and forecasts a budget of $5 million for next year. The group publishes a newsletter with a circulation of more than 60,000. Graham zigzags across the country blithely suggesting that the U.S. could build SDI (he loathes the term Star Wars) with today's off-the-shelf technology. While Graham may be the most zealous of the pro-SDi salesmen, he is an amateur compared with its leading pitchman, Ronald Reagan. The pro-SDI forces count on the President's uncanny ability to convince the public that good old American hard work and know-how can make...
...Petrik, executive vice president of WTBS. "We're trying to make great films better." Charles Powell, executive vice president of Color Systems Technology, which provides the new versions to TBS, calls the process "simply another state-of-the-art enhancement. Would you rather have a film sit on the shelf in its 'pure' form or be seen by large numbers of people only because it was colored...
...hoped for. Freshman Sarah Vaillancourt slotted a pass ahead to tri-captain Nicole Corriero, who had scored all four of the Crimson’s goals to that point. Charging up the right side, Corriero dished at the last possible second to Chu, who buried the puck top shelf to end the longest game in NCAA tournament history...