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Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits holds a special place in my musical heart for many reasons; not least of which, Dire Straits, led by the Knopfler brothers, came onto the musical scene with their first album, Dire Straits, 1978, at the height of the dreaded Disco craze.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 3:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mark Knopfler, and Dire Straits helped steer my love of good music through the stinky stuff that was Disco in the late 1970's and for that I will always be thankful.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 3:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Friar Laurence has the best of intentions. But in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the friar's well-intended interventions do not yield happy results.
Published: Saturday, February 9th, 2019 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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My title has two meanings. The first is that, since the 1980s at least, what calls itself literary criticism has consisted largely of abstract theory, less concerned with literature than with itself.
Published: Friday, May 30th, 2014 @ 11:59 am
By: John William Pope Center
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"I am hurt," says the dying Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet after trying to stand up for his friend Romeo and getting stabbed for it. "A plague o' both your houses!" In popular remembrance, we actually invest the Bard's line with even more poetic force by substituting a different word when wishing...
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 @ 6:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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