Word: lord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cher decides to stick with marrying Johnny, and to resolve her guilt she goes to confessional. "Pray for me, father, for I have sinned," she tells the priest, adding as casually as she might recite a shopping list that she has twice taken the Lord's name in vain, slept with the brother of her fiance, and once knocked someone over by accident. The priest simply tells her to say two rosaries...
...America, where monopoly ownership has made many newspapers fair, bland and unadventuresome, Rupert Murdoch, the invading Australian press lord, set out to buck the trend. He bought the liberal tabloid New York Post and turned it into a paper conservative and vindictive in its politics and sensational in its news coverage. Many of his fellow editors and publishers consider him an embarrassment to their craft and a barracuda as well; the lack of respect is mutual ("Most American papers," says Murdoch, "do a few outstanding things, then coast"). Suddenly, however, Murdoch's bold reinvention of cynical, rowdy journalism...
When appealing to student workers and voters, Republican candidate Pat Robertson focuses on his fundamentalist religion and his conservative views on family and education, says Michael D. Lord '90, Robertson's youth co-ordinator for the New England region. He says that these views run counter to those held by "the Washington and party establishment...
...quite that way. Allen, identified as "Mr. Alien," does deadpan a bit of Shakespeare's text. Mailer and his daughter Kate do appear briefly, but the novelist indulged in a "ceremony of star behavior" and left town. So Godard vamped. He hired Burgess Meredith to play a gang-lord Lear (with many Mailer intonations) and Molly Ringwald as Cordelia. And he turned the film into a cynical, pun-laden, nonlinear meditation on virtue vs. power...
Rendell's most recent work, Talking to Strange Men (Pantheon; 280 pages; $16.95), eerily recalls Lord of the Flies. Her schoolboys and -girls are not washed up on some island but housed in upper-middle-class comfort. Yet mentally they inhabit an unseen world where they play an elaborate game of spy and counterspy, conducted with high solemnity and utter ruthlessness. This emotional tinderbox is ignited when the espionage is discovered by an unstable outsider who believes he has found evidence of treason. Rendell's trademark is to invert the classic adventure story: rather than transmute ordinary men into heroes...