Aerial video of the blaze showed smoke billowing from numerous beachside buildings, with large gray plumes of smoke casting dark shadows on the beach's turquoise waters.
Homer wrote a very long line of poetry—dactylic hexameter, with its six beats, and as many as seventeen syllables.
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David Denby,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
Popularized by a beer commercial during the 1986 World Cup, it’s used to rally on teams with its repetitive (albeit nonsensical) syllables as well as its upbeat ending.
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