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- Real-life teachers right at home in Alan Bennett's comedy/drama about the essence of education (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Alan Bennett's playwriting life is bracketed (thus far) by two school plays. The first was "Forty Years On" in 1968, involving an end-of-term play put on by teenage boys at a run-down public school, a metaphor for England. The play...
- Bush, McCain and other creatures of impulse - Creative Loafing Tampa
Bush, McCain and other creatures of impulseCreative Loafing Tampa, FL - 3 hours agoOne perverse choice I made early on was that I wanted to write poetry. Even to myself, a young kid in Brooklyn, it seemed weird: I didn't know anyone who ...
- British Library's ﾃつ｣500,000 Ted Hughes catch - Guardian Unlimited
The enormous literary archive of Ted Hughes, that includes letters, drafts of poems, journals, diaries and his innermost thoughts, has been bought by the British Library, it announced yesterday. Curators regard the ﾃつ｣500,000 purchase as being of ...
- Words from the past, insights for today - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesWords from the past, insights for todayLos Angeles Times, CA - 1 hour agoHe also put poetry into the mouths of the morally conflicted leader of the top-secret Manhattan Project hidden away in the Southwestern desert, ...
- Recalling a famous hockey dad's devotion - The Republican - MassLive.com
Recalling a famous hockey dad's devotionThe Republican - MassLive.com, MA - Oct 9, 2008Jim starts checking off the names of hockey friends like someone rattling off lines of favorite poetry: Joe Bucholtz, Billy Ensign, Billy Turner, ...
- R U ready to txt for D8s? Don't LOL. - Los Angeles Times
Joshua Beaman, 29, of Calistoga, Calif., and Hattie Rohr, 19, of Wisconsin met through a cellphone-based dating service called Bouncephone. They exchanged text messages for months before recently meeting in person. New cellphone services are ...
- Monticello's 'modern ambassadors' reflect on historical dream job - Jackson Clarion Ledger
Monticello's 'modern ambassadors' reflect on historical dream jobJackson Clarion Ledger, MS - 2 hours ago"I just felt like everything she said sounded like poetry," Lou recalls of Welty. "And she had the most beautiful large eyes that just seemed to drink in ...
- Palin accuses Obama of ties to second 'radical professor' - CNN
Seattle Post IntelligencerPalin accuses Obama of ties to second 'radical professor'CNN - 1 hour agoObama's closing effort also includes an appearance on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and a late-night rally in Kissimmee with former President Clinton. ...Video: The US standpoint on Jewish settlements - 29 Oct 08 AlJazeeraEnglishVideotape of Barack Obama You Won't See on the News Is Making News FOXNewsall 338 news articles
- Eastwick witches older now, but Updike's prose is ageless (Pioneer Press)
More than 30 years after Darryl Van Horne moved into the old Lenox mansion in Eastwick, R.I., and began carrying on with three divorcees who happened to be witches, the coven returns to the scene of high times and crimes.
- FILM REVIEW: Pineapple Express/ﾃ青静青ｽﾃ青ｰﾃ青ｽﾃ青ｰﾃ堕 ﾃ青ｵﾃ青ｺﾃ堕ﾃ青ｿﾃ鯛ぎﾃ青ｵﾃ堕 - Sofia Echo
FILM REVIEW: Pineapple Express/ﾃ青静青ｽﾃ青ｰﾃ青ｽﾃ青ｰﾃ堕 ﾃ青ｵﾃ青ｺﾃ堕ﾃ青ｿﾃ鯛ぎﾃ青ｵﾃ堕ヾofia Echo, Bulgaria - 21 hours agoIn his amicable haze Saul wants the ever-polite Dale to be his best friend and smoothes the going by offering him ﾃ｢竄ｬ窶 exclusively ﾃ｢竄ｬ窶 the titular blend of pot. ...
- Game offers plenty of word fun (Fergus Falls Daily Journal)
The game of Balderdash which my family plays during holiday gatherings continues to provide me with endless insights.
- Wooooord! CU MFAs - Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
Wooooord! CU MFAsCornell University The Cornell Daily Sun, NY - 49 minutes agoSeveral also take advantage of a local poetry forum known as SOON Productions. Although not officially affiliated with Cornell, the program was founded by ...
- Piano Master Brendel Makes Last Trip to Moscow (The Moscow Times)
13 November 2008 By Maria Antonova / Staff Writer Alfred Brendel can produce a long list of reasons why his musical career came as a surprise. "I was not a child prodigy; I'm not Jewish; I'm not from Eastern Europe; I'm not a good sight reader," the classical pianist has said.
- Sister's death devastates in 'Goldengrove' (The Wichita Eagle)
"Goldengrove" by Francine Prose (Harper, $24.95) So much seems tragic when we're teenagers: our appeal -- or rather, the lack thereof -- to the opposite sex; our embarrassing parents; a spectacularly bad haircut. Nico, the 13-year-old protagonist of Francine Prose's new novel, experiences all that through the prism of true tragedy: the death of her golden, talented older sister, Margaret. ...
- Tom Junod on the future death of Steve Jobs - CrunchGear
Tom Junod on the future death of Steve JobsCrunchGear, NY - 1 hour agoTrying to write this story about Bill Gates is like writing lyric poetry about a Turing Machine - the story isnﾃ｢竄ｬ邃｢t the same nor does it have the same pathos.
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