Word: dede
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowadays The 700 Club is increasingly left in Kinchlow's hands as Robertson crisscrosses the country in the company's BAC One-Eleven jet. With his enterprises--and his political prospects--building up momentum, Robertson has less time to spend with his wife Dede in a university-owned $420,000 mansion on the CBN campus. When he is home Robertson usually is awake at sunrise, studies the Bible for an hour, jogs two miles and perhaps takes a ride on one of his four horses before going to his studios. It is a country gentleman's life-style, which befits...
...enthusiasm, Robertson felt God telling him to apply literally the exhortation of Luke 12: 33: "Sell your possessions, and give alms." While Wife Dede was in Ohio nursing a sick brother, Robertson sold virtually everything the couple owned and gave the money to the poor. According to Robertson's 1972 autobiography, Shout It from the Housetops, the marriage went through a tense period before Dede showed "willingness to submit herself to my spiritual headship...
FROM THAT POINT onwards, the conclusion is foregone. Caught between the police and the gangsters. Dede and Nicole find themselves victimized. They are repeatedly hauled into the station, humiliated, threatened, beaten, and abused. The two, however, know that informing would mean almost certain death. Besides doing so would go against what little honor they have left...
...relationship between the lovers. Dede and Nicole, provides a marvelous contract to the rest of Belleville. At one point we see Dede sneaking up to Nicole who is gobbling down some cake at a patisserie. "I am cooking leveret stuffed with pistachios, parsley, and a hint of garlic for dinner. "Two leverets," he protests. Baye and Leotard manage to make an incongruous relationship seem convincing and touching. The very thing that makes the couple so vulnerable to both the gangsters and the police alike, their mutual loyalty is at the some time, the only positive thing in the story...
...Dede's ex-colleagues the small-time hoods chased up and down the Bellevile streets by the police, provide economic relief particularly one Mohammad Djerbi: "I don't deal. These are my life savings. Don't touch me-I'm a tourista. This cocaine? It's not mine. I found it-The money's to buy a washing machine for my mother." etc...etc...ad nauseum...