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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well and tours in an eight-passenger airplane when many of those in his flock are among the poor. Richard Roberts replies to such criticism with annoyance: "Well, I'm serving a first-class God. When you see Oral Roberts University, you don't see a bunch of tin buildings. You see some thing that you can be proud of. I'm not serving a God that's poor. God owns everything. All the silver and gold on this earth belong to God. He created it. We believe in building first-class, that...
...Society, whose name does not necessarily reflect a boastful grade point average (GPA) from its members, was founded by a "bunch of jucks who wanted to point fun at Dunster's nerdy reputation," says Billy Mallard '83. "The GPA Society doesn't fulfill any useful purpose, except to have fun," the club veteran adds...
Matthew Wilson and "a bunch of guys on the same hall up in Briggs, in South House" began practicing together this year and eventually formed the new group, he says. It included Matthew Wilson singing lead instead of playing drums as he did in Animal Dance, and Daniel Wilson, Animal Dance's bassist, who had switched to drums...
...from being corrupting dens of iniquity, the arcades, Brooks concluded, were places for young people to meet and talk. Said he: "They're like a bunch of golfers talking about what happened at the ninth hole." Fears that drugs and liquor are commonplace were off target, Brooks reported. One cannot play well when drunk or high, he noted, and where video games are concerned, playing well is the adolescent's best revenge...
Another quiz show currently exploiting TV nostalgia is Family Feud, whose host is the oleaginous Richard Dawson, formerly the scheming Cockney Newkirk on Hogan 's Heroes. This daily show has been featuring sitcom families such as the Bradys of The Brady Bunch and the Cleavers from Leave It to Beaver. During the program, the performers behave much as they did on their original shows, fostering the illusion that TV families never break up or die, but live on blissfully in real life as well as on reruns...