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...unflinching celebration both of beauty and of its transience. The subject of love crops up repeatedly in the book's 60 lyrics, but the Boss Cupid of the title is not the chubby winged cherub of popular lore. He is something of a hooligan, "devious master of our bodies," wreaker of joy and havoc: "Love makes the cuckoo heave its foster-siblings/Out of the nest, to spatter on the ground." Pleasure is the other side of loss. In "American Boy" Gunn writes, "Expertly you know how to maintain me/At the exact degree/of hunger without starving. We produce/ What warmth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poems of Love And Death | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...finals was a showdown between Williamson and Scott. The number one seed from Columbia versus a havoc wreaker from Harvard. Scott snagged two straight sets, 6-4, 6-4, from Williamson to claim the title...

Author: By Barbara VAN Gorder, | Title: Scott Takes Singles Title, Engle-Scott Fly at Rolex | 11/18/1985 | See Source »

...Police Chief Brody the shark is an invincible nightmare of violence and guts, a glittering evil intelligence that forces him into the ring to defend the good town of Amity. Brody senses that the fish is supernatural too, not as God's work, but as God's vengeance wreaker. "The fish is too much for us. It's not real, not natural. All we can do is wait until God or nature or whatever the hell is doing this to us decides we've had enough. It's out of man's hands...

Author: By Irene Lacher, | Title: Tooth Decay | 8/5/1975 | See Source »

...long. I'm still the D.A.Rling havoc wreaker...

Author: By Felicia Lamport, | Title: Political Clinkers and Cultural Slag | 5/6/1965 | See Source »

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