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...event (“Third Eye Blind was Junior High for me,” he said. “I loved it!”) and about the possibility of other options. He said that for student organizations willing to raise capital and charge for tickets, the sky is the limit. The Browns of the world may soon be losing out; Rihanna just might ditch them for Harvard...
...shuttle took off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 7:43 p.m., and a mere six minutes later it emerged from the South-Southeast area of the sky and traveled to the East-Northeast part of the sky...
...else in the room as we ran from one end of the Artspace to the other, creating a giant balloon tsunami. For a final touch, the static electricity generated by thousands of balloons rubbing against each other allowed some to stay stuck to the ceiling, creating splotches of blue sky...
...come in the first year of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency or even in the second. The major initiatives of the New Deal passed only after F.D.R. had convinced Americans that he had his priorities straight. His immediate attention to issues like the run on banks and sky-high unemployment gave him a congressional landslide in 1934 that ratified his 1932 victory. That's when he grew strong enough to pass his broader agenda. The best way not to "waste a good crisis" is to put the stress on "crisis." Once Obama does that, the antsy gang on Wall Street...
...first rule of paint-by-numbers poetry is distinctive images, Nilsson appears to have taken this rule to heart, and too dramatically at that. Her images are certainly distinctive—from “The Procures,” “a mountain sitting in a fair sky, girls / of gentle birth sheathed in goatskin and tulle.” The latter image is one of several in this collection that allude to our distant, primeval past. Yet these distinctive images are lost by dilution, by the worst kind of overkill. Take this stanza from...