Word: brandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They sat in their cars, obviously the hottest around--Chuck, in a 1969 Camaro, brand-new 454 modified stock engine they came out with that year, Holly carbs, and Elvin in a '68 Mach I, special Ford 427 four-speed, a quick rear end, a 3.97 I think. Both cars had huge tires wrapped around Cragar mags, jacked-up front-and-rear. Bootleg cars, the epitome of American technology devoted, as it so often is, to breaking the law. And because I was just as drunk as they were, and very nearly as foolish, I stood out between them with...
...cafe the next night with a handful of journalists, his wife and daughter, round a ten-foot table over perfect steaks, he is not prone to giggling fits. What he mainly does-or did in that company-is listen with a blowtorch intensity which makes most other brands of human attention seem dazed or bored. (And Rosalynn his wife shares the trait-an interest almost animal in strength and necessity, though her brand seems to come from her mother, Miss Allie Smith: a quiet, impressive lady with the broad, handsome, watchful face she's given her daughter.) Some watchers...
...Tease. Here's Life markets Jesus the way others might introduce a new brand of soda pop to a city. I FOUND IT! tease the TV and newspaper ads, billboards, buttons, bumper stickers. Found what? The ads offer a telephone number that will provide the answer: Jesus. In Chicago, church members manned 100 telephones 15 hours a day. Said one local convert, Banker William McLaren: "I had an unbelievable feeling. I cried for six hours...
Back Off. Even those who favor this born-again brand of Christianity are often privately critical of Bright's methods. Campus Crusade is "run like a dictatorship with a military style," says one prominent Evangelical. Complains another: "The system becomes more important than the message...
When embroidering such assumptions, Wolfe rarely sounds serious. Anyone who can describe Jimmy Carter's brand of religious faith as "Missionary lecternpounding Amenten-finger C-major chord Sister-Martha-at-the-Yamaha keyboard loblolly pineywoods Baptist" has not succumbed to ideological portentousness. Yet he clearly is serious−not because he is a closet conservative, but because he is an old-fashioned satirist...