Word: heathenism
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...shows that broke out after the first season of Friends (remember Can't Hurry Love? Pig Sty?), producers are standing in line to photocopy Touched by an Angel. But the conversion might not hold. The networks' best religious shows, Promised Land and Nothing Sacred, risk getting crushed by their heathen Thursday-night competition, Friends. Religion may be jamming the tube this season, but the young and the reckless still rule. Sinners, after all, have killer demographics...
...have been to "Phantom of The Opera," but not "more than once" like the oh, so distinguished Elizabeth T. Bangs! I apologize for being a heathen. I blame it on my parents who never took me to the opera as a youngster, probably for the (justifiable) fear that I would jump off the balcony in pure and utter boredom...
...radio, pretend it's John's basement and have some fun." Sometimes they fiddle with (or bollix up) the chord structure of the original tune. On a few songs they finesse the lyrics (George's vocal on Roll Over Beethoven alters "Dig these rhythm and blues" to "Dig these heathen blues") or finically polish the grammar (John's "You've really got a hold on me"). Some of their covers (Young Blood, Johnny B. Goode) sound sluggish, anemic next to the originals. But Paul's raveups -- his countertenor superscreaming on Long Tall Sally or the understandably obscure 1956 rocker Clarabella...
...proselytizing. This is no time for converting the heathen. Glazed eyes, a slack jaw and frantic waving to a long lost friend are tell-tale signs of terminal boredom...
When one desperate man takes on more than 500 of his colleagues in an attempt to preserve his position in life, surely that man has a screw loose. But President Bush, seemingly in possession of his sanity, made the Congress the heathen enemy in his holy war for re-election. There was no War on Drugs, no War on Poverty, no War on Crime--only the War on Congress. So why has the Congress taken its beating lying down...