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...invention that kept running through his head: Einst werd ich liegen im Nirgend, bei einem Engel irgend, a rhyming play on words which roughly translates as, "One of these days I shall lie in nothingness, beside an angel of some kind." Indeed, there is so much visual wordplay going on in Klee's pictorial poetry that the show almost demands a detective-like second tour. Can you discover the hidden word TOD (death) in Death and Fire? Or decode the mysteries of three of the works left untitled in the artist's studio when he died? In the corner...
...compromise that weighed in at only $350 billion as "itty bitty". He has now embraced a bill of just that size, but what was once a morsel is now described as - presto! - a "very robust package." Bush's next press secretary will have to be prepared for more Orwellian wordplay. Once a tax cut becomes law, all the sunny guarantees that were made about its elixir-like effect on the economy will be put to the test as reporters demand to know when the promised boost is going to kick in. "These things take time," will be the inevitable answer...
...lyrics--championed by fans over those of Fred ("Agreeance") Durst and Korn's Jonathan Davis--well, sure, he's the T.S. Eliot of rock's special school. But if you're not grading on a curve, it's hard to see what the fuss is about. Moreno's wordplay is certainly cryptic enough--"Yeah if you'd like that we can ride on a blackhorse/A great new wave Hesperian deathhorse," he screams on the thrashfest When Girls Telephone Boys--but the songs still seem to be about psychic injuries and the people who caused them. It's territory that...
...lyrics - championed by fans over those of Fred ("Agreeance") Durst and Korn's Jonathan Davis - well, sure, he's the T.S. Eliot of rock's special school. But if you're not grading on a curve, it's hard to see what the fuss is about. Moreno's wordplay is certainly cryptic enough - "Yeah if you'd like that we can ride on a blackhorse/ A great new wave Hesperian deathhorse," he screams on the thrashfest When Girls Telephone Boys - but the songs still seem to be about psychic injuries and the people who caused them. It's territory that...
...these days, Barman is less likely to let rhyme dictate content. Amid the rapid-fire wordplay and locker-room humor on Paullelujah!, he speaks extensively of political issues, a topic he currently calls his “highest interest...