George Burns—the indefatigable entertainer whose staying power became the last, most endearing gag in a graceful, laugh-filled career—died Saturday morning at his home in Beverly Hills.
Tom Vesey
once the consecutive nine-bar sequence is complete, we’re already at the next bar—the tenth. To determine whether the high of the ninth bar exceeds the lows from earlier bars, I compare thehigh of bar 9(denoted ashigh[1]) with the lowest low from three bars earlier (low[4...
It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don’t have the strength to fight it. It’s easier just to sit down or go to sleep. They say you don’t feel any pain toward the...
From where I sit [palely loitering] I can only imagine by smudging black ink on yellowing parchment as my candle burns [wavering] in the damp draft of my shallowed breathing. My lungs afraid to [surge] surge against the light of the nurturing flames; held aloft by the torch bearers who...
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Close by, there also stood a statue of be-knickered plough-boy poet Bobby Burns in a tam-o’-shanter, holding a mountain daisy like a potato chip. I didn’t realize then that public art with few exceptions is doomed to fail because art and consensus mix as poorly as the well-...
“Easy for you to say. Your Nerei skin never burns.” “If it did, I would prevent it. This ointment is pointless, nothing but a way to keep me busy.” He sighed. “It’s the next step in your training. Each lesson must be taught in order. Besides, this will stop many skin ...
” He does, holding it (fatally) against the assault of hundreds of zombies. But this sentiment literally echoes across the connection between him and Bran and between young and old Hodor sending the young one into a fugue state in which he cries out “hold the door. hold the door. hold...
It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don’t have the strength to fight it. It’s easier just to sit down or go to sleep. They say you don’t feel any pain toward the...