Word: alack
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...alack, the willful monkey takes the tablet of Ahkmenrah with him to Washington, thus potentially bringing to life the Smithsonian's entire multistory subterranean warehouse of treasured antiquities and zoological oddities. (If monkeys could communicate, they might have something to say about the lopsided number of screenplays predicated on the antics of miscreant simians.) Even worse, Ahkmenrah has a brother, the crazily dressed, maniacally lisping Kahmunrah (Hank Azaria), who, less loved by his parents, intends to use the tablet to exact his revenge and rule the world. If Larry doesn't do something, it's not just his exhibitionist friends...
...those days are gone. The main reason the American South, fiscal conservatives, and religious nuts were able to jump on the same bandwagon was because of the charisma and Southern Baptist heritage of President Clinton. Alas and alack, he cannot run again, and the last time I checked, the 2000 Presidential Election pretty clearly demonstrated that America didn’t want a Clinton White House without a Clinton...
...white-robed undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood, hired by the ruthless press baron Rupert Murdoch to tape their talk. The villain offered Sophie a choice: have a deeply personal chat with the News of the World, and the tapes would be hers. Or else. And so it was done. But alack! A Murdoch rival, the Mail on Sunday, printed "excerpts" overheard by bitter Wessex employees--including Sophie allegedly calling Cherie Blair, the Prime Minister's wife, "absolutely horrid horrid horrid," and boasting about her likeness to Princess Diana (whom Sophie then also allegedly dissed). Moral: Beware the wolf in sheik...
...Shall we awake one morn to cry, "Alack...
...self-described literary genius. On campus, well-written analysis and my name and flow together like peanut butter and jelly. I am very smart, respected but, alack, it's lonely at the top. My intellect is unmatched, unrivaled. Where are my peers, my challengers...