Word: pray
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...experienced coach would declare this year's Pudding show the product of a "building season" and pray for some more talent next year. But this season's creators and producers of Bayou were cracking thier knuckles with more than first-night jitters in the back row last night, and they may have to for a while to come. With a little work, director-choreographer Voigt Kempson can probably add some stage business, get the Mounties and Maidens to stop moving their lips to count out their steps and maybe even get them to dance with a little class. Until...
Aside from lovers and husbands, the only visitor to the house is the minister who comes to pray at Agnes's deathbed. Bergman admires the minister's recognition of the need for moral faith, and his sincerity and fervor; but his unfolding of a stern Calvinist credo becomes pathetic, particularly as he begins to cry, and tells the sisters that Agnes's faith was stronger than his own. When he leaves with his androgynous layers-out, we are made sharply aware that, for all its period trappings, this is a story about Western man caught in a post-Christian world...
...drain on the country's foreign currency reserves. Beyond that, the government suspects that some Moslems go on the pilgrimage year after year for a more earthly reason than paying homage to Allah. As well as allowing them to venerate "the place where Abraham stood up to pray," the trip gives them an opportunity to smuggle home gold coin, jewelry and expensive cloth...
...great home-run hitter. I hit only ten home runs in the 1971 season. Last year I suddenly ended up hitting 19 because I chanted my prayers every morning and night and before every game." Why did his batting average drop from .309 to .289? "I didn't pray hard enough...
...President is dead." The new President spoke to reporters next day: "I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay or a bull fall on you. But last night the moon, the stars and all the planets fell on me. If you fellows ever pray, pray...