Word: gospeller
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...writing is surprisingly well-crafted--her characters are complex, her details are rich. It is the ultimate guilty pleasure, long on heaving bosoms and short on intellectual argument. This book left me full--full in an on-the-verge-of-vomiting way. Unfortunately, in appealing too heavily to the gospel of "sex sells," Rice destroys whatever critical exposure her actual writing might receive. Armand will either be condemned to the bowels of the Canon or, perhaps worse yet, become a favorite among the good-time patrons of "Playboy" and "Victoria's Secret," who actually do subscribe to both publications...
...even the beginning of significant world recovery before the year 2000--and some wounds will remain unhealed long after that. The era of "everybody investing in everything, everywhere" is finished, at least for a good long time, says Sinai. He thinks economists may even reluctantly stop preaching the gospel of totally free markets globally and accept the idea of a greater degree of government control, though far less than in old-fashioned command economies...
...rarely referring to each other. They are strung along the same thread, but could all exist as shorts, or be reshuffled and a drastically different film would not have been created. Jerry Stahl (played by the ubiquitous Ben Stiller) does not follow his own advice and belt out any gospel, but by all means he could do so without causing the film any disruption. The real life Jerry Stahl was shooting up and working as a highly paid writer for "Alf." The movie Jerry Stahl works as a writer for an "alien puppet show" called "Mr. Chompers," who is green...
...going to tell you an old and familiar story," a character announces at the outset. "No tricks up our sleeve." Well, maybe a few tricks: the play transposes the Gospel to 1950s and '60s Texas, where the Jesus figure (called Joshua) is a misfit at Pontius Pilate High and has his first gay experience when Judas accosts him in the bathroom during the senior prom. Yet the play has no explicit sex (and very little implicit) and no cheap lampooning of the Greatest Story Ever Told. Indeed, Corpus Christi is a serious, even reverent retelling of the Christ story...
Franklin's enthralling new album opens with a skit in which the gospel singer-choir leader is put on trial for blending the secular and the sacred. Unlike most skits on music albums, this one hits home: Franklin has proved himself to be a threat to musical orthodoxy. His blend of gospel, funk and hip-hop is ingenious and unique; and in pop music it's certainly harder to advocate positive religious values than it is to be Marilyn Manson. On this album Franklin has refined his sound further; his melodies are stronger, the vocal arrangements more graceful. Hard, beat...