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Lightfoot

/ ˈlaɪtfʊt /

noun

  1. Gordon. born 1938, Canadian singer and short songwriter; his recordings include 'If You Could Read My Mind' (1970), Dream Street Rose (1980) and Harmony (2004)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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That could be “worst mayor ever” Lori Lightfoot whose looks Gutfeld relishes tearing to pieces while positing that her identity as Black lesbian was the only reason she was elected to lead Chicago.

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So Lightfoot isn’t merely a loser, she’s an ugly one mistakenly elected by dumb Democrats, while the teacher may be actually be a con artist, “the greatest troll in the history of trolls,” exposing “the lunacy of the woke agenda in a world where no one dares criticize her, much less pass a dress code policy without fear of being labeled a transphobe.”

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His book takes its title from the lyrics of Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” the 1976 folk-rock song that romanticized and immortalized the disaster.

He even takes readers behind the music, describing how and why Lightfoot came to record his song.

In his 20s, as his big-screen career was taking off — with two Oscar nominations, for “The Last Picture Show” and “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot,” already under his belt — Bridges would join a group of his high school friends for weekly nighttime jam sessions.

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