Word: christly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...done a lot of carpentry before, but not like this. The tallest building in Plains, Ga., is two stories high." After work the former Chief of State read from the New Testament at a local Baptist church, whimsically relating his group's good deed to the Bible: "If Christ came to New York he would probably spend lots of time on the Lower East Side−before it's gentrified that...
...Hartley Manners comedy) and Singin' in the Rain (with aging sprite Tommy Steele in the Gene Kelly role). The big noise, though, comes from two dueling musicals. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyricist Tim Rice, once the Midas men of British songwriting with the shows Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Evita, have separated and are parading their new collaborators before London playgoers...
...Nelson paying a call after dark? How could he comfort the family of a murder victim or preach on motherhood? But Nelson has many staunch defenders, who have pointed out that the young Moses committed murder and that St. Paul approved the killing of Christians before his conversion. "Surely Christ is still Redeemer," argued another letter writer. "Can we not believe that Mr. Nelson may be truly reborn...
Spectators love the spills and thrills, but as one young fan said during the pre-race parade of Miss Toyota. Miss Yamaha and local disc jockey Charles Laquidera hamming it up. "Christ, I just wish they'd get on with it. Motocross fans image is almost as bad as that of the racers themselves Promoters insist it is as inaccurate...
...Humphrey managed to leave behind a legacy of liberal legislation that has survived three Republican Administrations. In a 1977 poll of 1,000 leading Capitol Hill figures, he was named the top Senator of the past 75 years. (Humphrey, then fatally ill with cancer, responded to the news: "Jesus Christ, Lyndon Johnson's going to be sore as hell about this.") Solberg, whose biography is the first to benefit from Humphrey's papers at the Minnesota Historical Society, recounts his subject's career in impressive detail, but stumbles when he tries to explain Humphrey's self...