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...been fights at the Plexes, kids've got out of hand,/ But they must've spiked the sodas at the popcorn stand/ Because this movie has the innocence of bygone years,/ Like the films of Fred (Rock Around the Clock) F. Sears./ I mean they even got a deacon who berates the boys/ By sayin' "That's not music--just screamin' an' noise."/ And when Blair and Sheila E. meet romantic-like, Jack,/ You can hear the Mantovani sugar up the sound track./ Like I say, this ain't art like you find in the Louvre,/ But if you wanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Nov. 18, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...means a foregone conclusion. Shopping around for schools his senior year, Wilson focused most of his attention southward. Winthrop University, where his brother pitches, was one option, but Wake Forest courted him heavily. Then, the weekend before he was to sign on as a Demon Deacon, Walsh called...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASEBALL 2005: No Adjustment, Period | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...arrival was Carlos Medina, 55, who arrived 10 years ago from Nicaragua via Miami. "In 1983 U.S. bishops prophesied in a pastoral letter that Hispanic people would revive, maybe even save, the church in this country," says Medina, who owns a painting company in Charlotte and is a deacon at Our Lady of the Assumption, where he assists the priest with the popular Spanish-language Masses. "I think it came true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bible-Belt Catholics | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...first annual general meeting of the Malarrpa Ministries, an evangelical outreach that services the Aboriginal communities of Laverton, 400 km north of here, and Coonanna, 180 km east, and the town of Norseman, 190 km to the south. "God bless us through the heat, dust and flies," says Norseman deacon Les Schulz. A further 200 km south of Norseman is Esperance. Here Anglican reverend Doug Murray recently returned from one of his regular 2,000-km runs to the South Australian border and back, ministering to roadhouses and sheep stations. "They're nearly all Catholic," he says of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spreading the Word | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

...good match. Covenant was founded in 1970 during an earlier inclusion controversy, when 250 members of Birmingham's First Baptist Church walked out to protest its denial of membership to a black applicant. Shelton, says deacon Orbie Medders, is "an outstanding preacher and pastor. And she has a nurturing side to her that is stronger than anything I have ever seen in a man. She sets a tremendous example in terms of a broader spectrum of unconditional love, in the way she loves all who come seeking Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rising Above The Stained-Glass Ceiling | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

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