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...cash in on the Boy's success. 'N Sync and Take Five might look good in some low-riding jeans and a sweater with a stripe across the chest; they, too, might be able to sing along with a keyboard and a drum machine. But do they have the spark of true genius? Can they look into 12 cameras like they were looking into your eyes alone and promise never, never to break your heart and somehow, over all those miles of television cables, actually mean it? Do you know that they will someday come for you and love...
...encomium in the 1623 First Folio, calls the deceased Bard "the swan of Avon" (a conspiracy, they say). But their gravest problem is the existing poetry of De Vere himself. It is competent yet uninspired. The 20 or so poems may be juvenilia, but there is neither spark nor promise to the lines, too full of alliteration, all too devoid of depth. "Fram'd in the front of forlorn hope past all recovery,/I stayless stand, to abide the shock of shame and infamy..." The praise Oxford received as a poet may simply have issued from the mouths of sycophants...
Hundreds of Boston-area college students have received this e-mail from a modern version of Yenta the matchmaker. It is sent by DateSite.com, an on-line dating service started by a group of Winthrop sophomores that promises to spark action in the usually languid Harvard dating scene...
Communication is SASI's first step. They wantto spark interest in South Asian topics. Sanskrit101 has just not made the cut on enough students'shopping lists. Table-tents, posters and e-mailmessages advertise various courses offered by theGraduate School of Education and the KennedySchool of Government...
...those who need to spark some action ina relationship, WordsWorth Gifts is selling "Lust:A Box of Devious Delights." For $15 you too cangive your love goodies like tattoos, fireballcandies, smokecrackers and passion gum. "Everybodygets such a crack out of it," says Wordsworthemployee Liz Robbins...