Word: lazarus
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After his early-morning Lazarus imitation, Rafto returned, still somewhat pained, from the squad's morning run, and 11-mile, 68-minute affair. Seconds later, the rest of the runners filed into the cabin behind him. Within a minute, the pants and grimaces had turned to smiles. In one corner, Eichner was bellyaching about McCurdy's hot air, in another, McNulty was comically relating the plot of a TV movie he had watched the night before. As the aches subsided, one-liners began to fill the room again, and you knew that Harvard cross-country was in good shape...
They are named Phantom Flasher, Lazarus, The Red Onion, Chiquita Vanana, Vandal and such. They ride high and graceless, as always, but now their boxy bodies cry out for attention with garish designs and obstreperous Pap art: frontier scenes, Hawaii schlock, seascapes, erotic mush. Even one-the specimen, say, that flashes nude girls in and out of view with Op-artful magic-can pop the eyeballs. When large numbers heave into sight, zooming along the road in a spaced-out phantasmagoria of a caravan, they can set the innocent motorist to gaping and muttering, "What is going on here...
...DeMille. Jesus of Nazareth matter-of-factly presents a man, born of a virgin Mary, who rises again from the grave and appears bodily to his disciples. Nor does the film shy away from the miracles. It unquestioningly depicts the feeding of the 5,000, the raising of Lazarus and several healings. It does avoid some miracles, e.g., the walking on water, that would be difficult to portray realistically. At the trial before the Sanhedrin, the High Priest Caiaphas asks Jesus if he is indeed "the Messiah, the Son of the Living God." Jesus replies flatly...
...Nader jump into Washington Lawyer Simon Lazarus' Corvair after a party, then warn the attorney not to mention that Lazarus had been stopped by a cop for exceeding the speed limit because Nader feared the headline: RALPH NADER CAUGHT SPEEDING IN CORVAIR? Undoubtedly...
...both former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris and Sargent Shriver, who, with 11 and 9 per cent of the Democratic ballots, respectively, became darkhorses, at best, for the nod in Madison Square Garden in July--Shriver's malapropos Biblical invocation that, "Like Lazarus, I've risen from the experts' graves," notwithstanding...