The Mets may or may not sign Michael Bourn, but in their dealings with the center fielder, they've at least given baseball something new: the vaguely public contract negotiation as impenetrable art, along the lines of language poetry.

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The performance also included elements of Portuguese culture, such as language, poetry, and certain musical instruments.

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With concerts of local fiddle bands, French Canadian acts from Quebec, fireworks displays and a French-language Acadian poetry contest, the shindig attracts thousands every year.

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Poetry is the most common way, because the material of poetry is the stream of language that is constantly going on in our heads.

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The Urdd Eisteddfod claims to be Europe's largest arts youth festival, with thousands of young people from across Wales visiting the event every year for music, dance, performance, art and poetry competitions in the Welsh language.

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Mr. Kessler insists rather too deliberately on the play's mysteriousness, and his naturalistic language contains none of the cold, thwarted poetry with which Mr. Pinter's work is charged.

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The phrases have a particular rhythm, based upon traditional poetry and the distinctive intonation of the Ryukyu scale, and are performed in the ancient language of Okinawa.

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"'Kicking ass' is acceptable vulgarity, " says Michael Adams, professor of English language at Indiana University-Bloomington and author of Slang: The People's Poetry.

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