Word: lip
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Virtually every Indian film is a musical. The songs, lip-synched by the actors but sung by "playback artists" who are also stars, dominate the pop charts. This is pop opera, dealing with emotions so convulsive they must be sung and danced, in a solemn, giddy style that critic Peter Rainer calls "Busby Beserkeley." Production numbers, like the eight or nine in God Is My Witness, are simply a declaration of passion by other means...
...critics and rivals have already composed his requiem, claiming from the start that he was the symbol of the G.O.P.'s blind faith in primogeniture, a front runner who cannot win; that he's a mid-20th century man at the lip of the 21st century; that there is no room for a relic in a church that worships youth; that one can't be tongue-tied and taciturn in the age of confession. Sometimes the hard way builds muscles, sows compassion, tests courage. But sometimes the hard way is just the wrong...
...Dirksen in 1952, thundering down from the podium at Ike-supporter Tom Dewey: "We followed you before, and you took us down the road to defeat!" And Senator Abe Ribicoff in 1968 denouncing "Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago!" as Mayor Richard Daley hurled back imprecations that amazed lip readers across the country...
...through its fourth water alert in 12 months, the mayor tried to calm the populace by calling a press conference. With cameras whirring, Marion Barry dramatically held up a liquid that residents had earlier been warned by health authorities might kill the tropical fish in their aquariums, took a lip-smacking gulp and pronounced it "D.C.'s finest." Citizens were, of course, happy to see that the mayor was drinking nothing stronger than water, but wondered what could be impairing his judgment so severely that he blamed the media and his very own health commissioner for the water panic...
...much lip service is paid to student input," he concluded...