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...once-popular culture are even better: Ben advises his friends that “Dex isn’t sudoku,” and Graces’ dad angrily advises his daughter’s ex-boyfriend Jack, “Why don’t you buy a vowel and go home?” (I have yet to figure out what this means.) The writers and actors of “Secret Life” also seem to think their viewers need help interpreting the complexities of their characters and dialogue. Shailene Woodley, who plays Amy, feels...
...probably the most unrelentingly aggressive poet in English. When Samson says, "My heels are fettered, but my fist is free," he displays the best and worst of Milton. The best is Milton's unsurpassed technical command of English: the double contrast of "heels ... fettered" against "fist ... free"; the long vowel in "heels" echoed by "free"; the alliteration of "fettered ... fist ? free"; the combination of all three effects in the verse-ending stressed monosyllable "free," so ironically spoken by a blind slave in chains, but also so irresistibly open-voweled, defiant and exhilarating. In some ways, "free" is the single...
...candidate himself - in the early primary states. It has been a complex - and shifting - calculation for a Republican who got in relatively late, comes from a blue city in a blue state, tilts to the center on abortion and homosexuality and has a name that ends with a vowel. And so, Team Giuliani has already passed through several stages on the path to nirvana...
...word, original; nonetheless, they sound exhausted, and this generic feeling seeps into the whole album. Guitarist Peter Hayes and bassist Robert Levon Been trade lead vocals back and forth, but it’s difficult to notice the switch. Both have the exact amount of raspiness and vowel-slurring expected of a rock singer; instead of being an asset, this just compounds their lack of character. Their songs tend to repeat the same nondescript lyrics as many times as possible, like “Somebody / Somebody / Somebody’s gonna hurt somebody” on “Berlin...
...learning in Harvard College courses,” is a good step in the right direction. Professors are encouraged to attend lectures offered at the Center, collaborate with the Center’s staff when designing curricula, and even watch an online video that teaches the subtle art of vowel enunciation...