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To follow the Nakasendo is to walk in the footsteps of merchants and warriors, poets and pilgrims—and to write your own story into its centuries-old landscape.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
27 May 2025 -
The restaurant opened its doors in 1939 and was a hot spot for Greek poets and creatives such as Odysseas Elytis, Nikos Gatsos and Manos Hatzidakis.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Footwear News,
24 May 2025
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This year, the tributes go to Tina Landau, an award-winning playwright, lyricist and director, and Tony Award winner Idina Menzel.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
27 May 2025
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His own debut as a lyricist was in the 1957 musical West Side Story in collaboration with composer Leonard Bernstein.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2022
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Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.—
Sarah Vitali,
Harper's magazine,
10 May 2019
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Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2022
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But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.—
Melissa Mohr,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 June 2018
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In Russia, Aleksandr Dugin is a philosopher and bard of Putinism (with many fans in the United States).—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
21 Apr. 2025
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Pairing the berserker with the ranger or bard, who can power up party members and weaken enemies, makes for a good team composition.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
18 Apr. 2025
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The composer with the most radical influence on the second half of the 20th century, John Cage, was born and grew up here.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2025
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This trumpet player and composer, Rob Mazurek, plays with percussionist Chad Taylor in the band Chicago Underground.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
23 May 2025
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His work as a novelist and librettist continued until the turn of the century.—
Pablo Maurer,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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Huang is a playwright and librettist whose work includes Mother of Exiles, The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, and Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2025
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In the early 1900s, Black performers often encountered dress code restrictions and had to acclimate their garments to fit the demands of their audiences, particularly in minstrel shows and vaudeville performances.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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One giant got distracted by a wandering minstrel One giant overslept and started late Clues: Brumm is not the fastest builder but didn’t oversleep.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Lyrist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lyrist. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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