Word: prays
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...comedy, though Shakespeare rarely had characters doing both. At one point during volume one a powerful general sends away his escorts when he wishes to bathe in a pond. Adopting a silly, girlish pose and sprouting long eyelashes he says, "I don't want you to see me naked. Pray, won't you go?" Some of the oddity may be attributable to the translation, which puts modern vernacular ("It ain't no trick dude!") in the context of ancient India. The references to New York, Paris and beer-drinking "college girls" seems to be authentic to the original, though. Tezuka...
...burns more efficiently or offers any other benefit. By IRS ruling, they need only modify the chemical composition of coal. As a result, dozens of plants have sprung up across America to carry out a process that in many cases is so slight that critics call it spray and pray, a reference to their hopes that no one will peek too closely. "You can't believe what goes on," a government official long involved with the coal industry told TIME, blaming Congress for its role in perpetuating the handout. "The people who spend the tax money don't have...
...Washington, D.C. Half sociology study, half edge-of-your-seat thriller, this terrific film presents a broad cross-section of modern America, introducing the viewer to a daughter of Mexican illegal immigrants and an Indian-American boy whose father has paid for hundreds of his countrymen in India to pray 24 hours a day for his son’s success. The last half, showing the actual competition, is a nail-biter, but the inherent charm present in this great little film never wavers. 2 p.m. Monday and Thursday. $9, $8 students and MFA members. Museum of Fine Arts...
...amateur band far overshadow his merely adequate musical abilities. After a typically disastrous bar gig, Finn is thrown out of the band, rendering him even less capable of paying the rent that he owes his substitute teacher roommate. But the God of Rock, to whom Finn seems to pray regularly, has bigger plans for his disciple and grants him a subbing job at a prestigious private school. Posing as his roommate, he assumes the responsibility of educating a classroom of unusually well-behaved fifth graders, who he discovers to be, rather conveniently, excellent musicians. Within days, Finn has assembled...
...Before the game, Coach [Tim Murphy] told us to pray for man-on-man coverage,” Edwards said, “because he knew that their corners were young and we could go deep. And then they came out in man coverage to start...