Word: cheeking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he was six or seven and spending many of his days in British hospitals, a nurse gave Dudley Moore a good-night kiss. Her name was Pat, and 40 years later he can still feel the imprint of her lips on his cheek. He describes it in Proustian terms. "I almost spin when I think of it," he says. "She was truly an angel of mercy, and that kiss was probably the first taste of real, unqualified, uncomplicated affection I had ever had. In many ways my entire life is based on recapturing that single moment of affection...
...guys sneer most of the time, and put razor blades in the sneakers of Pierce, the first Black cadet in the Institute's history. Will, the hero, talks a lot about saving the Black cadet from his tormentors because it's the "right" thing to do, turning the other cheek, and doing unto others in the classical Christian manner...
...Aquacade's" five-member chorus performs several gently satirical numbers that, unfortunately, are not nearly as witty and creative as the accompanying costumes of giant bananas, pineapples and starfish. As tongue-in-cheek sequences, they're too tame and subdued to make their point, if intended seriously, they're too silly...
...Jerry Falwell's claim that Jesus Christ favored the death penalty. Christ clearly denounces vengeance in Matthew 5:38-39, "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also...
...peer into my soul a land whose freedom is to us a mockery and whose liberty a lie. I saw the Shadow of the Veil as it passed over my baby. I saw the cold city towering above the blood-red land. I held my face beside his little cheek, showed him the star-children and the twinkling lights as they began to flash, and stilled with an even-song the unvoiced terror of my life. The idea of the veil, as the way a man sees his life, is frightening and horrible. It cries out and angers you. Imagine...