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- TV’s 'Laugh-In' comic Dick Martin dies - Northwest Herald
LOS ANGELES – Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as “Sock it to me ...
- Peter Dreier: Sidney Blumenthal Uses Former Right-Wing Foes To Attack Obama (HuffingtonPost)
Former journalist Sidney Blumenthal has been widely credited with coining the term "vast right-wing conspiracy" used by Hillary Clinton in 1998 to describe the alliance...
- America Back on Track... for Wednesday, July 2nd - OpEdNews
OpEdNewsAmerica Back on Track... for Wednesday, July 2ndOpEdNews, PA - 3 hours agoIn addition he has published more than 1500 SetonnoteS commentaries, plus poetry and political essays in publications across the country. ...
- Waltzing Maltida a little ditty, historians say - ABC Online
Waltzing Maltida a little ditty, historians sayABC Online, Australia - 1 hour agoHe says people have always extracted their own meanings from poetry but believes Paterson could have been pursuing two goals. "It'd be almost impossible for ...
- School librarian dons different personas to get kids to read - Sacramento Bee
School librarian dons different personas to get kids to readSacramento Bee, USA - 1 hour agoAt a pretend coffeehouse poetry event, she comes as a beatnik. At the Colonial market day for third-graders, she is Mrs. Thomas Farthing. ...
- Stemming flow of literary heritage across the pond - guardian.co.uk
Stemming flow of literary heritage across the pondguardian.co.uk, UK - 29 minutes ago"Two things are inevitable: death and Texas," one of them was heard to sigh. Judy Berg, archivist at the University of Hull, remembers overhearing this ...
- 'Everything Is Cinema': A forgiving biography of Jean-Luc Godard (International Herald Tribune)
The author Richard Brody's urge to assess the film director's work thoroughly seems to spring from a heartfelt desire to comprehend this complicated and, by most accounts, thoroughly disagreeable man.
- Latifa surprises fans - Al-Bawaba
Al-BawabaLatifa surprises fansAl-Bawaba, Jordan - 1 hour agoLatifa will also participate in the award ceremony in honoring the late Lebanese poet Nizar Al Qabani, where she sang some of his poetry with the Iraqi ...
- From bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penance - The Associated Press
The Associated PressFrom bad to verse: Vandals get classroom penanceThe Associated Press - 17 minutes agoAnd metaphorically you're in the woods, in your life. Look at you here, in court diversion! If that isn't `in the woods,' what the hell is `in the woods'? ...
- The "It" List: A trendier guide to living (The News-Press)
• Rent it: "Persepolis" on DVD. Marjane Satrapi's animated adaptation of her graphic memoir was nominated for an Oscar and won a slew of other awards.
- Tolworth author robbed of valuable manuscript - Wimbledon Guardian
Tolworth author robbed of valuable manuscriptWimbledon Guardian, UK - 12 minutes ago... been sent back to me by a publisher in Bombay for me to check." Mr Saini, a widower who has four grandchildren, has written eight poetry books in Hindi, ...
- Female contenders rule out 'archaic' post of Poet Laureate - Independent
Female contenders rule out 'archaic' post of Poet LaureateIndependent, UK - 1 hour ago"It comes from the media this idea of writing royal poems," added Cope, who has attracted an ardent female fan base for her down-to-earth outpourings on ...
- East High grad gets Boys, Girls Clubs award - Denver Post
East High grad gets Boys, Girls Clubs awardDenver Post, CO - 5 hours agoBy Joanne Davidson Youth of the Year Shonnetta Henry, center, with her mom, Angela Westbrook, left, and friend Alexia Gutierrez. (Steve Peterson, Special to ...
- Central library celebrates 70 years - Bolton News
Central library celebrates 70 yearsBolton News, UK - 9 hours agoThen on July 24 it will host an X-Factor-style Poetry Slam competition where members of the audience judge poet's performances. ...
- London bishop to investigate gay church ceremony (AP via Yahoo! News)
The bishop of London said Sunday he would order an investigation into whether two gay priests exchanged rings and vows in a church ceremony, violating Anglican guidelines.
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