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...wanted to make a documentary in which they "explored faith through the eyes of a child," as Grady puts it. But their search for that true-believing youngster took them to Becky Fischer ("her name kept coming up") and the summer camp she runs for evangelical children in North Dakota. What they found themselves recording for Jesus Camp were 8- to 10-year-old kids in the throes of religious ecstasy--including talking in tongues--and some unexpected connections between that primitive religiosity and hard-line conservative political beliefs. At camp, a cardboard cutout of George W. Bush is venerated...
...Wansink outlines the studies in colorful language, highlighting the often duplicitous methods of social science research. In one restaurant, bottles of the same wine were passed out with either a North Dakota or California label. Not surprisingly, diners rated the North Dakota bottle as tasting worse. More unexpected was that diners drinking the “Californian” wine also consistently rated their food as tasting better than those drinking the North Dakota bottle. Influence extends further than most people think...
...family ties go a long way in New Jersey. When he's out campaigning, people will come up to Kean Jr. and tell him that his dad is one of their favorite politicians, to which the son replies, "Mine too." On a recent trip to campaign for Kean, South Dakota G.O.P. Senator John Thune told a crowd, "Washington has become a toxic place... it's high time to have another Kean in politics. When you have come from that kind of heritage of public service, you just have it in your bones...
...Bernstein’s relationship with the Kroks lasted for the rest of his years, and the group would periodically visit him in New York, such as in April 1983 when they visited Bernstein at his apartment in the Dakota in New York City...
...star - if that's the word we want - is a large, cheerful woman named Becky Fisher, who runs the "Kids on Fire" evangelical religious camp every summer at Devil's Lake, North Dakota, without, as the cameras are concerned, acknowledging the irony implicit in the location's name. Fisher is, so far as we can tell, monomaniacal. She can't walk through a toy store, for example, without noticing some object that she can use to vivify her message. In the film she takes particular pride in some molds that can turn Jello into a model of the human brain...