Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spoke to this issue. We are told that the Day of Judgment is heralded, first, by the blowing of a ram's horn and, second, by "a still, small voice." This same image is used in First Kings when G-d speaks to Elijah. It reads: "And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire...
...must have pitched this as The Defiant Ones only with lots of guns and cars and four-letter words. Keats (Wayans) is the undercover cop; Moses (Sandler), a member of a vicious drug gang, is the man in shackles. Together they're on the run from Moses' old gang lord (James Caan), who is so evil that his day job is selling used cars...
...remains remarkably similar in language to its popular predecessor. And its radical difference from the King James is apparent from the outset. In Genesis, when God discovers that Adam and Eve have eaten the forbidden fruit, the King James conjures up a roar of rebuke: "And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou has done?" The Deity in the New Living Translation sounds like a parent scolding a child who has just tracked mud into the kitchen: "How could you do such a thing...
...Minister Tony Muhammad, prophesied that within 30 days "the wrath of God will show itself in a major earthquake" because the Muslims had been evicted from their Western regional headquarters in Inglewood, California. This may be the first time since the Old Testament that anyone has called on the Lord to get involved in a real estate dispute--and set a deadline for his seismic intervention...
...town that claims the Cubs has got to love irony, and the progression up from farce toward what we can but hope is a cleansing, if tragic, resolution. And the Lord knows we're working toward...