Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Important questions hover over new PTL President Dortch, who may face action by the Assemblies of God for his part in the Bakker scandal. According to Roper, Dortch was more deeply involved than Bakker in arranging the payments to Hahn. Falwell offered no enlightenment last week on whether the $265,000 hush money had come from contributions to PTL ministries, but he said an audit committee would go to work on it. That word came at a PTL headquarters press conference, at which Falwell handed out financial reports showing that PTL revenues exceeded expenses by $19.8 million in the year...
...also has the ingenuity to give surprising twists to the taffy of his plot. And like a best pal, he knows how to listen, to find obsessions in the sprung rhythms of everyday speech. Levinson has found the perfect cast for this comic elegy; each actor's face is a subtle caricature of ordinary futility. In fact, most of the movie is pretty funny, if you can convince yourself that these people are a whole lot of somebody elses...
...energy. Its monument (or perhaps, its idol) is the only large marble carving that Henri Gaudier- Brzeska was able to complete before his death in an infantry charge, at the age of 23, in 1915. This is the Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound, 1914, and hieratic it is; the face, with its wedge of a nose, embrasure-like eyes and triangular goatee, is as powerful as a royal Assyrian portrait, possessed of an awful gravity that the outrageous phallic pun of the poet's hair fails to reduce...
...Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, who prosecuted the case, said there was "no excuse" for the crimes. Anderson could face a $500,000 fine and ten years in prison. Giuliani will urge that the former Cabinet officer spend time in jail...
...warm amiability. After all, at the moment he was in the Oval Office, and a book of speeches by Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was being prepared for April publication with a glowing foreword by the President. She is a woman of "unshakable inner confidence, even serenity" in the face of crisis, Reagan writes. Too bad, he adds, that Mrs. T. has to go through those "hostile sessions" in the House of Commons called Prime Minister's Question Time, when she is subjected to "heckling" by the opposition. Chief among Thatcher's tormentors, of course, is Neil Kinnock...