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...long time, Schuller confesses, he harbored doubts about his own self- worth. Born in Iowa to a devout, hardscrabble farm family, he resolved early on to be a preacher. After seven years of study at Hope College and Western Theological Seminary, both in Holland, Mich., he was ordained in the Reformed Church in America in 1950. Five years later he went to Garden Grove, Calif., to set up a new ministry. Schuller's fledgling show-biz instincts led him to begin preaching from the roof of a rented drive-in theater's concession stand. Within four years he had attracted...
Ironically, even though the Soviets are as devout in their opposition to Star Wars as Reagan is in his support, it was S.D.I. that evidently prompted Moscow to return to the bargaining table. The Soviets walked away from negotiations in late 1983 to protest U.S. deployment of Pershing II and cruise missiles on NATO territory in Western Europe. Moscow vowed that it would not resume the talks until Washington withdrew the offending weapons, even though the Soviets maintain a similar stockpile of their own. Later, increasingly alarmed by the Reagan Administration's deepening commitment to a space-based defense system...
Town elders Mandy Torpedoes (Mark Graham) and Mayor John Overflow (Ty Christopher Warren) grudgingly release their two captives to assist the oh so devout Amos Behavin (William Nicholas Weit) on a search-and-destroy mission to an alleged witch haunt. The Mortal Inn. (The directions to the inn sound curiously like the route to Jordan's Furniture Waitham.) A few contraception jokes and the ubiquitous stick-it-to-the nearby women's college slam--"A.B. from Harvard, VD from Wellesley" later, the trio arrive at the inn, supposedly the nest of a bevy of premisenous. In fact, this...
...campaign trail, Helms, a devout Southern Baptist, often hints at a divine mandate for his re-election...
Hunt aides now claim they knew Helms would resort to mudslinging. They say they had long prepared to counterattack by focusing first on Helms' record as a devout opponent of social security and abortion and as a lackluster Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and second on Helms' "retrogressive" mindset. But they were clearly baffled when Helms began to close the gap in the polls-he slung mud, as expected, but he also traveled the high moral road of emotive symbolism...