Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could write programs not for one OS at a time but for the Java Virtual Machine, the software that could run numerous next-wave computers: PCs, smart cell phones, personal digital assistants, stripped-down network computers and so on. "What should Apple do next?" asks Sun CEO and Java evangelist Scott McNealy. "Put 100% energy behind Java. Innovate, compete and add value. That's so obvious to me that I can't pretend there's another strategy...
...Since he genuinely wants Apple to succeed, he will continue taking time out to talk strategy with the managers of the company he created. He's just not interested in running the show. "Managing has never been his strongest suit," says Jackson. "But he's the world's best evangelist and if he can find a way to inspire the company while staying out of the way of the CEO they choose to run it, then that will be the best solution for Apple...
...life's little absurdities to be sardonically observed and fatalistically played out. As the best of his screen characters did. There's a marvelously stunned stoicism in his confrontation with the inner furies that haunt him in Pursued. And when he turned to outright psychopathy with his child-stalking evangelist in The Night of the Hunter, he made you lean forward to catch all the nuances of his menace...
McVeigh was such an eager evangelist for The Turner Diaries that he handed it out to friends and sold it at gun shows--often at a loss. The government will probably present testimony by Fortier and McVeigh's sister to confirm this zeal and may argue that McVeigh thought the book provided a model for how he might retaliate against the government for its Waco raid. For example, the bomb the narrator builds is, like the one used on the Murrah building, made out of ammonium nitrate mixed with heating oil and is loaded into a truck...
...followed she lived anything but the serene life depicted on that show, successfully fighting a long battle with drug addiction. Then one day in 1979, when her five-year-old son Matthew asked her to go to church with him, she became a born-again Christian, and later an evangelist. But Chapin never abandoned show biz, acting in three Father Knows Best reunion specials, managing younger talents and judging beauty pageants. She is currently developing a TV series that takes a nostalgic look at the history of radio and television. The performing bug has also bitten Chapin's daughter Summer...