Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...black man speaking from a shepherd's heart to wounded women, and they lined up by the thousands." At least 2 million bought Jakes' book Woman, Thou Art Loosed. Jakes, a regular on two TV networks (TBN and BET), has generated a stream of other novel gambits. He has cut a Grammy-nominated gospel album, beamed his sermons by satellite into prisons in 15 states and built a $32 million megachurch in a depressed part of Dallas. Al Gore, Pat Robertson and Coretta Scott King are among his fans. George W. Bush calls Jakes' social programs models for a church...
...sappy folk music on the p.a. system), Katie's approach, with elements that recall Zen meditation, Socratic inquiry and Alcoholics Anonymous' 12-step program, offers a pragmatic and simple way of getting people to take responsibility for their own problems. Says Katie: "It's a way to cut through everything. It puts responsibility back on the person looking for their answers, not the world's answers...
...father and his two grown children, Peter (Chris O'Donnell) and Annie (Robin Tunney), are on a practice climb in what appears to be Monument Valley. An accident occurs, and the three of them are dangling from a rope that can only hold two. Someone has to be cut loose. This turns out to be the father, and it is his son who wields the knife that sends him into deadly free fall...
...each number that are spare but never simplistic and that reverberate with menace, like footsteps following you down an alleyway late at night. The verbal flow on the album is involving and smooth; there's a smart mix of jokey lines ("In a room full of crackers/ I might cut the cheese," runs a passage on the track Redbull) and serious statements. A section on I Can't Go to Sleep laments, "Somebody raped our women/murdered our babieshit us with the crack and guns/in the early...
...Gore and Bush camps, the postmodernist recounts of the Sunshine State, the genteel animadversions of James Baker and David Boies on the Sunday talk shows - all these represent quite an advance from the massacre on the eve of the feast of St. Bartholomew, when the Catholics cut down 3,000 Huguenots as part of the sectarian tit for tat that went on until the entire argument collapsed in exhaustion and the Edict of Nantes...