"Christ deliver us" becomes a plea to create a humane place where this can no longer happen.
In this current climate, when history books in Texas have been rewritten to provide a more sanitized version of the past, and when Mexican American Studies have been under attack in Arizona and elsewhere, her message becomes a plea to learn about one's own history and about groups that are usually left out of history textbooks.
No doubt an appearance on the racy pages is sure to boost a celebrity's exposure, but does it ever cross the line to become a desperate plea for headlines?
The District sends more money per student to its traditional schools than to its charter schools, charter officials and advocates told the D.C. Council on Friday, renewing what has become an annual plea for equitable funding.
But his appearance, the eighth and last of what has become an annual plea for more money for the city from the state budget, was striking for its affable tone.
The doppelgängers grow into a zombielike mob, however, and the telephone greeting "It's me," originally a deception, becomes a desperate plea for recognition.
Yet here it became a fierce plea for animal rights as Cyrus was joined by Pamela Anderson, of all people, who held a sign reading "Save the Whales" and had "No Captivity" scrawled on her exposed leg.
One by one, beginning in April 2001, people of all ages added their voices to what has become a resounding and unprecedented plea for action on behalf of the world's children.
Real-life shots of smashed faces and twisted bodies, accompanied by a soundtrack of whimpers and moans, alternate with re-enactments, in which, canonically, the girl in the passenger seat begs her date to slow down, until finally her pleas become a scream of terror and the screen goes black to the sound of a shattering windshield.
