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The Academy: U.S. Art's Stiff Upper Crust
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MONOCLES are the order of the day in the "Portraits from the
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters" at the National
Portrait Gallery. So are mustaches, fur-collared overcoats and
walking sticks.
The 24 paintings, drawings and sculpture come from the Academy
and Institute, founded at the turn of the century by a group of
writers, artists, architects and composers. The portraits depict
venerable members from the early years.
It was then a stuffy organization that wished to emulate the
long-established European academies in promoting culture - a very
conservative, highbrow and ...
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Similes on the Internet have explanations
Magazine article from: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
; ...hypothesis about metaphors, similes, and explanations...sentences on the Internet. A simile is a figurative comparison...crime is a disease. Similes imitate literal comparisons...the connection between similes and metaphors is still...either a metaphor or a simile using the same word ...
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Simile Software Releases Simile Media Server.
Business Wire
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2001 Simile Media Server Intelligently Connects Content...Services to Maximize Revenue from Content Simile Software, the emerging leader in unstructured...announced the immediate availability of Simile Media Server. Simile Media Server helps...
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Effective Simile and Effective Act: Psalm 109, Numbers 5, and KUB 26
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...Every language uses similes. Not only do they...commonly known, a simile is a figure of speech...particular class of similes in the Hebrew Bible...this topic. The simile considered here can...indicates that these similes are linked to the...Hillers's "effective simile" types. In ...
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BEST SIMILES COMPARE FAMILIAR OBJECTS, HAVE A NICE CADENCE.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...ready to take a shot at a simile. The best similes are based upon familiar...My point: The good similes compare familiar objects...worms and a sofa. Good similes have a nice cadence...stethoscope: Have you made the simile work?
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Pre-facing simile vehicles in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's sonnets.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Style
; ...argues, but between "illustrative simile, and modeling simile or metaphor." It is the latter that...in a modeling than in an illustrative simile. The most effective and original modeling similes, as Eva Kittay explains, are those...
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Great Simile Contest Is Upon Us Again
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...in mind that the best similes are short similes. Ken Burger, sports...Courier, fashioned a nice simile at the time of the Ryder...things make the best similes. In our everyday world...moving clouds. The good simile is packed into a sentence...
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Here's a Contest as Exciting as a Shapely Simile
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...year we held a Great Simile Contest. I invited...try their hand at similes for "rough...part in the Great Simile Contest. Most contestants...shot at all four similes, so we looked at...remember that similes can go either way. There is the Simile Straight - as exciting...
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"So stretched out huge in length": reading the extended simile.
Magazine article from: Style
; ...study of the extended simile may offer some insights...trope and genre. Homeric similes often interrupt a story...which examined the simile in relation to the literal...nature is what makes simile, and not metaphor...matter of implication, similes appear in a limited number...
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And Now, the Great Simile Contest of '94
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...time for the Great Simile Contest of 1994...we seek original similes in two general fields...we mean to embrace similes for the giggle...rules for 1994: Your simile must be contained...high school (one simile per student). Be...more than 20,000 similes for "slender" and...
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Best similes and metaphors are short and original
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...of the art. The best similes and the best metaphors are the short ones. If a simile gets wordy, it loses...improvement. Perhaps the simile can't be improved. One more point about similes: They have to stay in...journalism, used to cite a simile that spoiled a lyrically...
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