Word: thee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrong, truth and error, Christ and chaos." Or, "Freedom is the right to do what you ought to do." He did not hesitate to take on the likes of Darwin, Marx and Satan, not to mention Sigmund Freud. He once parodied the prayer of a modern Pharisee: "I thank thee, O Lord, that my Freudian adviser has told me that there is no such thing as guilt ... I may have an Oedipus complex, but I have no sin." After one summer vacation, the bishop breezily opened his show with the words, "Long time no Sheen...
...especially hard act to follow, but Jewison found a superb successor in the person of Al Pacino. Pacino, who plays Arthur Kirkland, the film's do-good hero, first made the big time as Michael in The Godfather. He made it again as the run down hero of Serpico thee years ago, but there's been a drought since. Now comes Arthur Kirkland, who works perfectly for Pacino because he's a blend of Michael Corleone and Serpico. Like Corleone, Kirkland wants to do everything himself; like Serpico, he's a man fighting society in the name of justice...
...quarter-hour of comic relief. Then he caps it off with an even dizzier reprise, a 204-word two-minute version. In the larger version, Hamlet gets as far as "To be, or not to be . . ." when Ophelia pipes up "My lord," only to be scaldingly dismissed with "Get thee to a nunnery!" In the dietetic No-Cal version, Ophelia enters, "falls to ground. Rises and pulls gravestone to cover herself." The slimline Macbeth, with Stephen D. Newman and Ruth Hunt, is a sweet-and-sour spoof hung behind the Iron Curtain...
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...traditional "We praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord" becomes in one version "You are God: we praise you; You are the Lord...