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simile
simile [Lat.,=likeness], in rhetoric, a figure of speech in which an object is explicitly compared to another object. Robert Burns's poem "A Red Red Rose" contains two straightforward similes: My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melody That's... Read more |
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Love
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Job satisfaction
Millicent Scarlett 1971— Singer Her voice has been called sublime, radiant, commanding, and quite simply, beautiful. In operas, jazz concerts, and show-stopping recitals, Millicent Scarlett has sung her way into a resounding career. "I love singing very dearly," she told The... Read more |
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love feast
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DEMAND
DEMAND The concept of demand is not Freudian. It was developed by Jacques Lacan, who linked it with need and desire (Lacan, 1966, 1991). Demand is identifiable by the five clinical traits that constitute it, by the status that it gives the object, by its function in relation to the Other, and... Read more |
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Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder1950- Singer, songwriter In the course of following Stevie Wonder on his relentless travels, journalists come to realize just how beloved an entertainer he is. "It dawned on me," wrote Giles Smith in the New Yorker, "that a substantial part of Stevie Wonder's public life consists of... Read more |
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Courtney Love
Courtney Love Singer, songwriter, guitarist Courtney Love's hybrid mix of raw talent, mythic catastrophe and rock and roll spirit has enabled her to transcend the expected tag of "rock star." She has achieved full-fledged celebrity status due to a career that owes as much to her... Read more |
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Jaheim
Jaheim1978(?)– Vocalist Music star Jaheim has cultivated a thug image, even releasing a duet called "Beauty and a Thug" with vocalist Mary J. Blige. "I love the ghetto," Jaheim told Jet, explaining why the word "Ghetto" appears in all his album titles. "For me, the ghetto has always been hypnotic... Read more |
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Laura Love
Laura Love Singer, songwriter For the Record… Selected discography Sources Laura Love’s restless, musically adventurous spirit has carried her in a remarkable array of directions. A bass player with a unique vocal style, Love has performed everything from grunge to jazz to bluegrass.... Read more |
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First lady puts aside dislike for spotlight, becomes steadying figure for...
...her to give a speech. But after last...Bush is setting aside her natural reticence...every parent, I called my children immediately...And then I called my own mother...over the country called their loved ones...to send their ... |
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There's something about Mary
...glamorous, distraught figure amid a squalid and...did she fall in love with him? Directed...It simplifies things, you see. "Characters...toss his caber". Speech anachronisms aside, though, what...faking the so-called "Casket ... |
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Eddy Arnold, 72, puts health woes aside to sing again
...well start making speeches." The speaker...Don't Miss a Thing," is a collection...typical Arnold love songs with basic...was the last thing to come back...million records, a figure surpassed by few...Nashville Sound, also ... |
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From Gore, a Heart-to-Heart Speech; Va. Graduates Give Vice President's...
...area students favored figures such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Love Hewitt as commencement...issues, there was one thing they didn't want to...organized a game of what they called "buzzword bingo...Vowing to set politics aside, Gore ... |
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HATE, POLITICS . . . AND HATE . . . AND POLITICS . . .
...language of tough love, as championed...the so-called progressive...not the same thing as to hate...applaud; hate speech contributes...ATTACK was hate speech" (Letters...Leaving aside Matthew Meade...of a public ... |
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LOVE LETTERS How to get rid of a stage-5 clinger? ; He just wanted to hook...
...late 20s. I love my independence. I do things for myself...bedroom riot act speech but nothing...whole "nice" thing comes in...parting of ways, aside from a couple...unless you can figure out an alternative...some space to ... |
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SURVIVING THE HARD WAY ABANDONED HINKLEY SENIOR WILL PASS ON MESSAGE OF...
...talk about the things she didn't have and the things they didn...writes in the speech she's preparing...s the last thing you should...pulled her aside. ``He told...squad. But things at home got...on. Robin ... |
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Power lunches: New York prep schools serve their students meals even the...
...Dalton. Nutrition aside, cosmopolitan 15...special lunch day called "Welcome to Karachi...re offering these things and they're delicious...among girls whose figure fixations have a...around. "Everyone loves them," says a seventh...give you a ... |
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Today on the presidential campaign trail
...parted laughing. Aside from a fleeting...their respective speeches to a pro-Israel...her concession speech with campaign...Obama in the speech. ___ McCain...the country I love safe." The...campaign manager, called the ad ... |
 "The Independent on Sunday (London, England)")
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Why nine out of 10 Americans love statistics
...mine are one thing. For Americans...entertaining new book called Proofiness...University professor called Charles Seife...exact as the figures themselves...suggest that all things are predictable in figures, and thus ... |
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