Word: verbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jail a poetry teacher named Lauren (Sonja Sohn, who can soar from a whisper to high-calorie emoting in the flick of a verb) encourages the inmates to examine the cycle of violence and put it into verse; they respond with pensive street scat like "I shot three m______f______s, and I don't know why." Well, it's a start. For Ray, it is the start of big things. He falls in love both with Lauren and with the furious folk art of slamming--a mix of hipster poetry contest and hip-hop riffing. Now Slam starts...
...Sunbeam stock. Two weeks ago, with the value of that stake fast eroding, Elson said, "You bet I looked at the company as an owner." So he and his similarly staked board mates moved fast to "Dunlap" Dunlap, sacking the job slasher whose name had become a Wall Street verb...
Andrew K. Mandel '00 is in Japan this summer, spreading the joys of subject-verb agreement and requesting "Opposites Attract" from the English-speaking radio station just...
...professor will be wowed by your fine-tuned commentary which you duly gleaned from your Core class last year. Instead, the grads will parry by demonstrating how a particular verse in Act IV differs in the First Folio, which incidentally resembles the Middle English root of the verb as it appears in Sonnet Number 42. So what is the seminar-jocks' secret? They did the reading--and then some...
...find Amis undertaking such a seemingly conventional plot, it is also amusing, because it affords the British author an opportunity to play off quintessentially American myths about cops and robbers and have a little fun with American English while he's at it. Amis satisfyingly uses "badge" as a verb, as in, "I badged my way through the tunnel of uniforms around the front door," and he offers this memorable description of Hoolihan's work among the dead: "I've seen them all," she says. "Jumpers, stumpers, dumpers, dunkers, bleeders, floaters, poppers, bursters...I have seen bodies left dead...