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- Go on, you know you want to really... - The Independent
Irresistible: Benjamin Braddock can't help being led astray by Mrs Robinson - one of the great fictional seductresses - in 'The Graduate' Eve was the first seducer. Not because she was naked and slinky and (as it turned out) fatale, but because she ...
- Leonard Cohen - Times Online
Leonard CohenTimes Online, UK - 2 hours agoHis mother Masha was a Russian Jew from Lithuania, from whom he inherited an affinity for song and poetry. Soon news arrived of the fate of other relatives ...
- Zimbabwe: Mukanya Heads for SA Show, Zim - AllAfrica.com
Legendary Zimbabwean musician Thomas Mapfumo will be coming to perform in October, Standardplus can report. Mapfumo is scheduled to perform in South Africa this month at the 12th Poetry Africa International Festival to be held in Durban. The festival ...
- Okyeame Kwame goes academic - Ghana Music.com
Ghana Music.comOkyeame Kwame goes academicGhana Music.com, Ghana - Aug 12, 2008Okyeame Kwame said he named the album “my poetry” because of the kind of songs on it, as the music has been arranged in stanzas just as poetry. ...
- Show type: Misc live shows - Chortle
Show type: Misc live showsChortle, UK - 6 minutes agoLatitude has always strived to be more than your normal beer-soaked, mud-splattered music festival, boasting a packed theatre, dance, poetry and literary ...
- Lord Byron had a huge collection of female admirers' letters (New Kerala)
London, Aug 14 : Lord Byron, an English poet and a leading figure in Romanticism, had a huge collection of fan mails from anonymous women, it has been revealed.
- Rushdie traces the roots of his latest award-winning tale (Miami Herald)
Fatehpur Sikri, the old, abandoned capital of India's Mughal King Akbar, is a somewhat deserted place these days, a bit off the beaten tourist path, outdone by the popularity of the Taj Mahal about an hour away.
- The Olympic winner who didn't get to be Tarzan (Orange County Register)
Securing a Gold Medal in the 1960 Rome Olympics was one of the defining moments of Don Bragg's life journey that has had its ups and downs.
- Exclusive: Grief of Scots soldier's girl as he dies in road smash - before she could tell him she was pregnant (Daily Record)
THE mother of a tragic soldier's baby believes he is "looking down" on her and their tiny son. Scott Wilson died in a car crash caused by an Army pal before Karen Rannachan even knew she was pregnant.
- The power of Peter Piper: How alliteration enhances poetry, prose, and memory (PhysOrg)
From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent study suggests that this literary technique is useful not only for poetry but also for memory.
- Osama bin Laden's poetry woos urban youth (Daily Telegraph)
TERROR chief Osama bin Laden will have his poetry published next week.
- A 'Colour'-ful tribute to 9/11 - Sentinel
This past Thursday, the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon, was greeted with somber displays at the former site of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. However at the Old Bowie Town Grille, the 9/11 ...
- Lesbian Activist Del Martin Dies at 87 (Time Magazine)
Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her lifelong partner in June on the first day that same-sex couples here gained that right, has died
- Book Patrol Welcomes Nancy Campbell - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Book Patrol Welcomes Nancy CampbellSeattle Post Intelligencer - 2 hours agoShe has also published three books of poetry and her writings on book arts and illustration have appeared in a variety of journals. ...
- Sussex County festival is ruled by the word - Newark Star-Ledger
Photos by Patti Sapone /The Star-Ledger Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Robert Hass reads during the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival at Waterloo Village. There were walks in the woods, gift shopping and food, hacky sack games and flirting, but the day ...
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