Word: smiley
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...small, sun-baked man, Barr is unusually smiley and energetic for a poet, and he set about his job with a distinctly unpoetic efficiency. Starting in February 2004, Barr commissioned a corporate-style study to find out who was reading poetry and who wasn't. Readings were hosted; prizes and fellowships were handed out; an elaborate, handsomely designed website was launched. Working with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation started Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry-recitation contest for high school students, which was won this May by one Amanda Fernandez of Washington on the strength...
Recently, that skill-set has extended to political punditry. West recently surfaced at a Houston conference organized by journalist Tavis Smiley on the “State of Black America,” where he criticized Barrack Obama’s absence from the conference despite having been invited “a year in advance...
...then defended them as being "some of the most gifted people I've known," as if that excuses their behavior. It is people like Cullen who create an atmosphere of acceptance for these cretins. There is no justification for jerks in the workplace. Give me an office full of smiley faces anytime. Suzy Stephens, Hampton Cove, Alabama...
...while he waits to find out where the film--and small roles in two indie films coming out later this year, The Ten and Smiley Face--will place him in the film-actor hierarchy, he's getting anxious. He's worried about the fact that he hasn't worked since The O.C. wrapped. (Women was filmed in 2005.) "I feel like I haven't really tried hard in two years. I don't even know what I'm capable of," he says. Meanwhile, he's hanging out with his friends, writing songs and screenplays, seeing nearly every movie that comes...
...then defended them as being "some of the most gifted people I've known," as if that excuses their behavior. It is people like Cullen who create an atmosphere of acceptance for these cretins. There is no justification for jerks in the workplace. Give me an office full of smiley faces anytime. Suzy Stephens, HAMPTON COVE, ALABAMA...