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Romantics everywhere will fall for the visual treat of this nursery-rhyme adventure.
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His 16mm masterwork "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" 1969–71 is a revelatory feature-length examination of a 1905 Biograph nursery-rhyme short involving a stolen pig.
Filmmakers Who Try, Try Again Kristin M. Jones 2011
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High Places have refined the delay-pedal nursery-rhyme experiments of their early days into comparatively rocking dance tracks.
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But if you are going to muck around with it, get rid of the phrase 'for ever and ever', which always used to set my teeth on edge a bit: it sounds too storybook, too happy-ever-after; to my ears it always made the poor priest sound a bit of an idiot to have to come out with such nursery-rhyme stuff.
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Interestingly, in using simple, child-like drawing to make sophisticated statements, Basquiat recalls the art of another precocious conceptual genius, as Sylvia Plath's use of nursery-rhyme rhythms heightened the power of her furious October poems.
David Galenson: The Rise and Fall of Jean-Michel Basquiat David Galenson 2010
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Interestingly, in using simple, child-like drawing to make sophisticated statements, Basquiat recalls the art of another precocious conceptual genius, as Sylvia Plath's use of nursery-rhyme rhythms heightened the power of her furious October poems.
David Galenson: The Rise and Fall of Jean-Michel Basquiat David Galenson 2010
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Paul nodded wisely, although in his current euphoric state he probably would have nodded wisely had Beltaire recited a nursery-rhyme.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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Only the figures aren't human, exactly; they're more like ... nursery-rhyme characters.
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OAKES: Adam Green has long taken the stream of consciousness approach to lyric writing, but he's matured considerably from his twisted nursery-rhyme days with The Moldy Peaches.
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Each level contains mysterious, nursery-rhyme clues which directs them to elaborate traps.
STEEL TRAP is a lame SAW knock-off which fails to scare, says Ray! | Obsessed With Film 2008
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