Yet the poem also has long stretches of windy narrative about American history, focussed on bleached, school-pageant figures like Columbus, Pocahontas, and the Wright Brothers.
** Yet the poem also has long stretches of windy narrative about American history, focussed on bleached, school-pageant figures like Columbus, Pocahontas, and the Wright Brothers.
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Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn't having it.
Blessed with an enchanted view of the sun-bleached boats in Long Island Sound, the school is perched on an island that looks more like Cape Cod than the Bronx.
Isaiah Turner — also a rail-thin high-school dropout, with bleached hair — lay on a couch, the only elevated place to sit other than a plastic folding chair "for adults," kept in a closet.
She wore a blouse that was maybe too chic, especially since she usually wore bleached-out T-shirts at school, but she knew that after Dezzy went to bed there'd be some spare hours to relax in a beautiful apartment.
He told us about learning how to pop-lock because he was too chubby to break dance, and about the bleached bangs he had in high school.
In addition to Sandate, there was the team's founder, Leeza Sergeeva, a deadpan 19-year-old from Moscow; Angela Brock, 34, with a bleached, punk haircut, who came back to school to study electrical engineering after dropping out 10 years ago; and Bertram Lee, 47, a high-spirited man who wore his pants high on the waist and short at the ankles.
It's a three-hour commute by bus and trolley each way from her shabby one-bedroom apartment in southeast San Diego to the school in Point Loma, a sun-bleached bayside community.
Children whooped and adults moved over the bleached-out boardwalks that lead from the school through a maze of mud tracts and tall, soggy grass.
