Word: singed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike most of the other characters in the movie, Nicholson actually gets to deliver funny lines. He also gets to roll his eyes, laugh hysterically, sing and dance while defacing works of art and play endless practical jokes. He's clearly having fun with the role, although one would think he'd be tired of playing pure evil...
...confusion between the two products, since labels will read CRAISIN DRIED CRANBERRIES. Craisins will be sold as a snack and as an ingredient in other foods. They can also be found next month in a new Ralston Purina breakfast cereal. But the real question is, Can they sing...
...texts using masculine terms for humanity, the editors took greater liberties. Not even works of Methodism's co-founder and greatest hymnodist, Charles Wesley, were spared. In his Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, "pleased as man with men to dwell" becomes "pleased with us in flesh to dwell." In Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, "sons of men and angels say Alleluia" is recycled as "earth and heaven in chorus say Alleluia." As for other hymns: God of Our Fathers is now God of the Ages; Good Christian Men, Rejoice metamorphoses into Good Christian Friends, Rejoice; and O Little Town...
Revampers also bent over backward to avoid offending other constituencies. In Have Thine Own Way, Lord, sinners no longer ask Jesus to wash them "whiter than snow," because of objections from blacks. In Wesley's O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing, editors originally dropped a verse proclaiming the spiritual uplifting of the "dumb" and the "lame," lest the handicapped take umbrage. They later restored the words, but suggest in a footnote that the stanza may be omitted...
People along the sidewalks initially cheered when they heard the chanting, but one office worker said, "They can sing any slogan they want but then they start shooting...