Word: damn
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...Hotspot was 21 and seemed surprised to hear that it wasn’t. Hell, as a literary entity, The Hotspot wasn’t even born yet. In what could be listed in the O.E.D.’s sixth or seventh definition of “damn shame,” the Cantab is strictly 21-plus, although it’s been rumored that you can get in if your daddy or mommy take you along. —Staff writer Michael A. Mohammed can be reached at mohammed@fas.harvard.edu...
...campaign’s a bit more ambiguous. Don’t get me wrong, Democratic candidate Santos (Jimmy Smits) is great (you’ve gotta love those sweet close ups of hunky Jimmy spouting liberal ideology as the music crescendos in the background). The problem is those damn Republicans! Opposition candidate Vinick (Alan Alda), batting for the red team, is just too appealing to hate! I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. This is, after all, the Left Wing…err, I mean the West Wing, so not only is Vinick a man of integrity...
...Lewis' most fascinating aspect: his posthumous migration from liberal to conservative icon. He was an Anglican whose natural first constituency was the old Protestant denominations. But by the 1960s the mainline's interest had shifted from core orthodoxies to social action. Screwtape, by contrast, advised that to damn a man, "get [him] at first to value social justice ... and then work him on to the stage at which he values Christianity because it may produce social justice...
...Church headquarters in New York City has become irritated with some charity organizers. On one cleanup day, for example, nobody could find the paintbrushes, and everyone sat around eating bagels and chatting. "You want me to clean the bathrooms?" Ramsden asked impatiently. "O.K., but be sure you have the damn bucket here and don't waste my time. I have better things...
...wrote: “Death Cab for Cutie is something different… Life was good again.”In contrast, the weblog Onetwothreego wrote about their latest full-length “Plans,” released just six weeks ago with fiery contempt: “Damn, I’m disappointed by this one. Too bad I already bought tickets to their show on Friday, otherwise I’d have passed. I love this band, too, but the album blows. Too much whining, not enough rocking. Come on, guys!” Some criticized that...