Word: mormonized
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...music. Unlike some of their influences, The Furnaces have a great sense of humor. On “Oh Sweet Woods,” Eleanor Friedberger—the band’s vocalist and Matthew’s little sister—sings of being kidnapped by fanatical Mormon missionaries. Eleanor’s deadpan vocal performance heightens the absurdity of the events she recounts, and Matthew’s haunting acoustic guitar provides the perfect melodic background for her gonzo tale. “Borneo,” the following track, is a jaunty ode to gambling addiction...
...charged photos, featuring the actor bathing, shirtless, or with his pants undone. A number of gay webmasters have established digital shrines to the 25-year-old actor since his 2004 breakout role in the indie film “Latter Days,” in which he played a Mormon missionary who has a passionate—and explicit—affair with a Hollywood party boy. But the heterosexual Sandvoss describes his beefcake-photo Google hits as a relic from some early-career modeling work. However, he admits that the sites have been more than a little helpful...
...some have bemoaned the Square’s loss of character. Unfortunately these foolish people fail to realize that the one thing worse than no restaurants, shops, or clubs is ATM fees.2. December 26. Some may have thought that the last vestiges of Puritanism in Massachusetts were repealed when Mormon Governor Mitt Romney signed a bill allowing for Sunday alcohol sales. They were wrong. The law still prohibits selling on Monday if Christmas is on Sunday. All of you who stayed in the Bay State over the break are suckers. Watch out for December 26, 2011. You?...
...Attorney Tom Campbell, a Bob Dole campaign leader and administration appointee and backer of President George H.W. Bush announced he would run as a fiscal and social conservative. Campbell, a Mormon and self-styled environmentalist who voted for DeLay in 2004, has deep party connections and access to heavyweight fundraisers that make him a credible threat to the embattled former Majority Leader. "Tom DeLay's 'win at all cost' brand of politics has cost us far too much to let it continue," Campbell says on his campaign website...
DIED. JACK ANDERSON, 83, Pulitzer prizewinning journalist whose muckraking columns terrified Beltway politicians for more than a half-century; in Bethesda, Md. A devout Mormon who viewed his work as a calling, Anderson often enraged his powerful subjects with his syndicated "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column, which broke stories like the Reagan Administration's arms-for-hostages deal with Iran and the secret transcripts of the Watergate grand jury. Richard Nixon put Anderson on his "enemies" list, prompting Nixon aide G. Gordon Liddy to devise a plan to murder him. Still, when Anderson's work on Watergate resulted in arrests...