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- Sun Road marks 75 years - Missoulian
WEST GLACIER - There are many ways to take the measure of a road. You can measure it in miles. That'd be 52. Or in dollars spent building the route. That'd be $2.5 million. Or in lives. Three were lost building it. Or in pounds of dynamite used ...
- Screen Gems (Good Times)
(movies/screen-gems-1) San Francisco’s LGBT film fest ready to roll
- Leading Men (Washington Post)
W onderful moment in John Ford's "The Searchers," from way back in 1956: John Wayne, as the surly, violent Ethan Edwards, signals to his young compadre that it's time to move on in their pursuit of Scar, the Comanche chief who's murdered their family and kidnapped the youngest daughter, Debbie.
- A man of few words: Poet shares love, talent for beauty, simplicity of writing (McKinney Courier-Gazette)
Poetry expresses more thoughts and feelings than short stories or novels, a fact that poet A.J. Chilson said he admires because it accomplishes more by using less words.
- One great Dane (Toronto Sun)
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- Flying through life's regrets - San Jose Mercury News
Talk about timing: In April, American Airlines grounded more than 1,000 flights, many of them out of Chicago, to check electrical connections on its fleet of MD-80s. Two months later, Jonathan Miles published his first novel, "Dear American Airlines ...
- Sorted for rhymes and lines: the secret of great lyrics (Independent)
On a recent trip to Brazil, I commented to the bossa nova-era songwriter Carlos Lyra that so many of the great Brazilian songs contain the word coracao – heart – in them. "It's so romantic," I said to Lyra. "It seems that Brazilians can't help but sing of the pain and the joy in their hearts." "Actually," Lyra replied, "there's another reason. Coracao is the easiest word in the Portuguese ...
- Suits — Not Steroids — Skew Olympic Swimming - New York Times Blogs
Most swimmers competing in the Bejing Olympics this summer believe they will fail without a new $600 swimsuit, The Economist reports . In February Speedo introduced its LZR swimsuit and 38 of the 42 world swimming records broken since then were by ...
- Reversing the Tide: Professor Gives Due to Self-Taught Poets - Illinois Wesleyan University
Illinois Wesleyan UniversityReversing the Tide: Professor Gives Due to Self-Taught PoetsIllinois Wesleyan University, IL - 22 minutes agoIn Prandi’s latest book, The Poetry of the Self-Taught: An Eighteenth-Century Phenomenon (Peter Lang Publishing, May 2008), she adopts the term “self-taught ...
- Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival - Boston Globe
Sunken Garden Poetry & Music FestivalBoston Globe, United States - 53 minutes agoSunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival Three-time US poet laureate Robert Pinsky kicks off the 2008 Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival with poetic musical ...
- COMMUNITY NEWS - Long Beach Press-Telegram
COMMUNITY NEWSLong Beach Press-Telegram, CA - 4 hours agoThe free festival, which brings together thousands of Long Beach youth through music, dance and poetry, features entertainment, booths and the final rounds ...
- Who do you consider a modern-day patriot? - Dubuque Telegraph Herald
It seems fitting after the recent celebration of the Fourth of July holiday to reflect on the founding of the American Republic. The patriots of the Revolutionary War era proclaimed the birth of a new nation in the Declaration of Independence. They ...
- Weekend Calendar: 05/25/2008 - Traverse City Record Eagle
Weekend Calendar: 05/25/2008Traverse City Record Eagle, MI - 3 hours agoOpen poetry reading, first Fri., 8-10 pm, free, musicians, comedians welcome; McClean & Eakin Booksellers, 307 E. Lake, Petoskey; 348-1180 or 347-5748. ...
- Once Upon Many Times (New York Times)
A novelist builds a bridge to the Arab soul, using the tradition of stories with a frame tale.
- Weather cooperates despite fears for second Sagebrush Serenade ... - Reno Gazette Journal
Weather cooperates despite fears for second Sagebrush Serenade ...Reno Gazette Journal, NV - 4 hours ago... poetry, after last year a horseriding accident had her out of sorts. She has written a 'Sagebrush Serenade' poem that appears in the event program. ...
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