Word: camped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, Young Life has specialized in gathering "unchurched" teens back into the religious fold; officially nondenominational, Young Life has a strong Evangelical Protestant base. Wednesday-night Club is its accessible first level; the second is Camp, a $500, one-week stay at a Young Life facility. The third is Campaigners, a small group that convenes at the Adams' home Fridays at 6 a.m. for prayer, fellowship and mutual exhortation: to bring new kids to Club. Of tonight's hearty choristers, Adams estimates, 120 will end up trying Camp. Of those, he predicts, "probably 70% will give their life to Christ...
Still, not everybody is enthused. Some students who have not been to Club deride it as a cult. Mary Beth Carosello, a former student-body president who is studying at the University of Missouri, attended both Club and Camp but became disenchanted. "When you're a freshman, you see older kids who are so into Young Life and so into Terri and Herm, and you think, Wouldn't it be fun to be friends with them? And then you get in there, and they're really Christian [meaning Evangelical]. I came to feel, why do we need this hard-core...
...were filmed, to add human faces a the cast of winged mammals. Although compared to the wooden performances of Lou Diamond Phillips and Dina Meyer, the bats are surprisingly human. Bats is so painfully unaware of its own ridiculousness that it qualifies for a place in the annals of camp classics.Yet, there is nothing tongue-in-cheek about this film. It is marketed as a thriller, in the tradition of Hitchcock's classic The Birds. Bats totally lacks the sensitivity of Hitchcock's thriller. In fact, this movie makes one yearn for the emotional depth of Child's Play...
...charges revolve around domestic maintenance services provided free by a contractor friend of the Netanyahus' at their private residence, which were later billed to the prime minister's office. "Sara Netanyahu isn't particularly well-liked by the Israeli public and is considered rather acquisitive," says Beyer. "The Netanyahu camp has suggested she accepted those services unbeknownst to Bibi, and that she was unaware she was doing anything wrong." Despite the fuss, the investigation has had little impact on day-to-day Israeli politics. "It was notable how few members of Bibi's Likud party rushed to his defense," says...
...know, but I can imagine it being at bottom an act of irony, a means of imparting some of the sophistication irony presumes to an otherwise worthless pop culture artifact. This act, this connoisseuring of camp, is not a rejection of more serious things but the elevation of a paltry thing to a thing of significance in a world that often seems short of them. The poster, the fear-masking jeers of the "Love Story" audience, the gas station name patches on Park Avenue kids, all these and a thousand other acts of irony are not a craven turning away...