Word: redeeming
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...group dance sequences that accompany the songs do little to redeem them. Far from impeccably executed, the dances often seem completely out of sync. Spins and leg-kicks are poorly timed and, coupled with the erratic quality of the singing, they give the impression of an under-rehearsed performance...
...January annual report, Pusey calls antiwar protestors “a small group of over-eager young in evidence on many campuses who feel they have a special calling to redeem society...
Shallow Hal’s half-hearted attempt at promoting the idea of a love that transcends appearance does little to redeem its constant mistreatment of the overweight and unattractive. Poking fun at issues like body image is a treacherous endeavor, but not an impossible one. Weezer, in this summer’s music video for “Hashpipe,” successfully managed to satirize MTV culture by parodying the short-attention-span hyper-sexuality that so pervades music, movies and television. In the case of the “Hashpipe” video, the subject...
...Reports from the ground war are looking a lot more promising. Al Jazeera and others report that the Northern Alliance is advancing on the Taliban at Mazar-i-Sharif, and inflicting heavy casualties. Pakistan's Frontier Post believe the Alliance is getting an opportunity to redeem its recent bad rap from the media. Military realities have made it a central cog of the U.S. war effort, the paper argues, and stepped up air support has raised the possibility of the Alliance capturing Mazar before the onset of winter. That "could provide the U.S. forces with a bridgehead or land corridor...
...those hit hardest by the economic downturn. That is, they want to give the money to lower income workers and the unemployed. The last time a tax cut package was brought before the Senate, Democrats buckled under pressure from the new Administration. This time they have a chance to redeem themselves...