Word: verb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squirrels and formed into rests. What's going on here? Which is the subject and which is the verb? It's unclear what this grammar trick does to advance the poem--maybe Axinn merely wants us to applaud his cleverness...
...anybody was born to dance, it was Tune. His father serviced oil rigs, his mother was part Shawnee, and they met at a dance. Of course. Tommy was only five when he started dance classes. "I absolutely loooved ballet," he says, generously giving the verb four or five more syllables than the dictionary. "I was actually quite good...
...debugging" a program that, when printed out, stretches over 30 ft. Jim McGuire, 13, is creating a video game called Spaceship, which will let electronic star warriors zap a boxy-looking orbital intruder. A more mundane program is emerging from 15-year-old Dave McCann's terminal: a verb test for seventh-and eighth-grade Spanish classes. Off in a corner two youngsters are putting the impish face of Mad magazine's cartoon hero, Alfred E. Neuman, onto the computer screen...
...complex as the material gets. (He tries to play mind games with himself sometimes. Luciano tells us, until someone reminds him he's playing with a handicap.) Stylistically, you or I could have written the book. Luciano (or Fisher) could have written something other than simple sentences, Noun, verb, object, there's little embellishment. The stories are meant to give pleasure on their own, and generally they do, but like a diet of Coke and cookies, too much simplicity leaves you craving for more substantial food for thought. But joining the ranks of the literati is not one of Luciano...
...drop relative pronouns such as that, which, and who; also do not eliminate the necessary use of forms of the verb...