Lamb

Lamb or The Lamb may refer to:

Film, television, and theatre

Literature

Lamb (2015 American film)

Lamb is an American drama film, written and directed by Ross Partridge. The film was adapted by the novel of the same name, by Bonnie Nadzam. The film stars Ross Partridge, Oona Laurence, Jess Weixler and Tom Bower.

The film had its world premiere at the SXSW film festival on March 14, 2015. The film was released in a limited release on January 8, 2016, before being released through video on demand on January 12, 2016 by The Orchard.

Plot

The film opens with David Lamb (Ross Partridge) visiting his sick and dying father Walter Lamb (Ron Burkhardt). After visiting his father, David goes to his motel room, where he is currently living. He talks to Linny (Jess Weixler) who tells David she has heard at her workplace, his ex-wife Cathy has kicked him out, and he is living in a motel room. Lamb tells Linny that's untrue, however, he is actually living in the motel. David is then shown at Walter's grave, implying that he has died. After attending his father's burial, Lamb ends up in a parking lot smoking, where Tommie (Oona Laurence) is asked by her friends to ask David for a cigarette. Lamb gives her a cigarette, and Tommie shows her friends. Lamb asks Tommie to scare her friends by pretending to kidnap her. Tommie says no, but ends up in David's truck. Lamb tells Tommie she should know better, and so should her friends. David brings Tommie home.

Lamb and mutton

Lamb, hogget, and mutton (UK, India, South Africa, Canada, Nepal, New Zealand and Australia) are terms for the meat of domestic sheep (species Ovis aries) at different ages.

A sheep in its first year is called a lamb, and its meat is also called lamb. The meat of a juvenile sheep older than one year is hogget; outside North America this is also a term for the living animal. The meat of an adult sheep is mutton, a term only used for the meat, not the living animals. The term mutton is sometimes used to refer to goat meat in the Indian subcontinent.

Lamb is the most expensive of the three types, and in recent decades sheep meat is increasingly only retailed as "lamb", sometimes stretching the accepted distinctions given above. The stronger-tasting mutton is now hard to find in many areas, despite the efforts of the Mutton Renaissance Campaign in the UK. In Australia, the term prime lamb is often used to refer to lambs raised for meat. Other languages, for example French and Italian, make similar, or even more detailed, distinctions between sheep meat by age and sometimes by gender, though these languages don't use different words to refer to the animal and its meat.

Softly

Softly may refer to:

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Softly (album)

Softly was an LP album featuring The Sandpipers, released by A&M Records in August, 1968. The album reached #180 on the Billboard chart. Two singles from the album charted in the top 40 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart: "Quando M'Innamoro" at #16 and the title track at #39.

The album was the first Sandpipers album to be issued in stereo only and not in monaural form in the United States; the catalog numbers were SP-4147 in the US and AML-918 in the United Kingdom. Other international releases included Canada (A&M SP-4147) and Germany (A&M 212 043).

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Softly (Roseanna Vitro album)

Softly is the fourth album by jazz singer Roseanna Vitro, released in December 1993 on the Concord Jazz label.

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars, with reviewer Scott Yanow citing Vitro's proficiency with both lyrics and improvisation, as well as the strong support lent by pianist Fred Hersch and saxophonists Tim Ries and George Coleman.

The album fared well in contemporaneous reviews as well. The Los Angeles Times awarded three stars out of 4, with critic Leonard Feather commending Vitro's delivery, choice of material, and affinity for Brazilian music, although taking issue with a couple of the tempos selected – in particular, for "Softly As in a Morning Sunrise" ("tackled swiftly, as in an evening rush hour.")The Washington Post's Mike Joyce expressed no such reservations, citing the album's combination of "[c]hoice songs, distinctive interpretations, [and] sensitive musicianship":

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