Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronnie: Choose again, George, red is dead...
...citizen of Santiago, an academic. He drives a Fiat, goes to the movies, shops at the overflowing markets, and lives in a nice part of town very near General Pinochet. At 2 or 3 a.m. most nights, he receives phone calls. The anonymous, "unofficial" callers say, "Your children are dead meat. We will cut off their arms and legs." And so on. About twice a year, Jorge attends the funeral of a friend who has disappeared in the middle of the night. Also unofficial...
Well, sort of. Unlike Reagan's previous four budgets, this one was not quite dead on arrival. The proposals, however unpalatable, must serve as a starting point for compromise. Even if the Supreme Court agrees that the mechanics of Gramm-Rudman are constitutionally flawed, there will be--and certainly should be--pressure to meet the deficit ceilings it mandates. "Whatever the outcome," said Reagan in his weekly radio address Saturday, "we intend to go forward with our plan to bring the federal budget into balance by 1991." In one respect, Reagan's 1987 blueprint is less draconian than expected...
...face of Gospel TV's theological simplifications and secular agendas, its sometimes overbearing personalities and unrelenting emphasis on money, should earnest Christians simply shun electronic religion altogether? To Hollywood's Ogilvie, that is not an option: "Otherwise we roll over and play dead." Jim Bakker sees video technology as the means to fulfill Jesus' 2,000- year-old injunction to reach out to the world and spread the Gospel. If Jesus were on earth today, Bakker asserts, "he'd have to be on TV. That would be the only way he could reach the people he loves...
...meeting at 19. "Son," said a policeman who was there, "you've got the fire." He has it still. Anyone who believes that TV has made the "hot" Gospel hell-raisers obsolete has not seen one of Swaggart's sweating, mike-toting, Bible-waving, Devil-thrashing performances. "Muhammad is dead but Jesus is alive," he intones. "He's alive. He's alive! GLORY!" He loves the sawdust trail and conducts a road-show crusade about once a month. "It has its own charm, spontaneity and electrifying power," he says. "There's really nothing in the world quite like...