Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, to the religious right, Clinton is practically the Anti-Christ. During the campaign, they waved placards warning TO VOTE FOR BILL CLINTON IS TO SIN AGAINST GOD. More recently the Virginia-based Christian Action Network called on Clinton to "fire the four horsewomen of the apocalypse: Joycelyn Elders, Kristine Gebbie, Roberta Achtenberg and Jane Alexander" -- respectively, the Surgeon General, who advocates condom distribution to high school students; the National AIDS policy coordinator; the Assistant Secretary in the Housing and Urban Development Department and the first openly lesbian nominee to be confirmed by the Senate for a high office...
...overblown three hours. At the end, the central character -- a petty crook named Billy Bigelow (Hayden) who kills himself rather than face capture by the police -- returns to earth as a prospective angel to save his adolescent daughter from a fate like his own. The girl's only apparent sin is to dance sexily in a ballet that implies the loss of her virginity. The father-savior doesn't say anything meaningful to his child. He just leaves a star that presumably symbolizes religious faith. The daughter is thereupon declared magically transformed, with no more evidence of her new goodness...
...also plays a very physical brand of hockey, sporting seven players who have accumulated over 40 minutes in penalties. Scott Malone set a single-season record for UNH with 154 minutes in the sin bin this year...
...time of the premiere, Verdi was himself living 'in sin" with his mistress, and this opera is fierce attestation to the moral confines of mid-19th century Europe...
...journey to Widener Vault, which I had heard so much about, no longer functioned as a den of sin...