Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Swaggart asked to meet with Bakker. Instead, Dortch flew to a Baton Rouge hotel to talk with Swaggart and two officials of the Assemblies of God. As Swaggart tells it, "I confronted Dortch about the Jessica Hahn thing. He flatly denied it. He lied to me." Swaggart did nothing further...
Like Falwell, the members of PTL's new board are no strangers to controversy. James Watt resigned as Ronald Reagan's Interior Secretary after offending several minority groups, and was recently fired by a Native American tribe that claimed his work as its lawyer was inept. Evangelist Bailey Smith, while...
Some Democrats delude themselves that they can ignore Reagan's legacy and return to the old Democratic practice of tax and spend, as if it were still 1964. At the California Democratic Convention at the end of January, the public address system blared Happy Days Are Here Again, and many...
In promoting their films, independents avoid the mass-market techniques employed by major studios. Instead, they aim for bargain exposure to specific audiences. A Room with a View, for example, based on the E.M. Forster novel, was screened last year for a Chicago convention of English teachers, who were encouraged...
The First Lady added to the hubbub with a doozy of a double entendre that may have been an innocent reference to her childhood but was interpreted as a parting shot at Regan. Appearing at a convention in Washington of the American Camping Association, she told the audience of her...