Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oral Roberts has long aroused controversy, not only during his 21 years as a touring faith healer but in his subsequent career as university president and medical administrator. The death revelation, however, was certainly the oddest of the messages from on high that Roberts has reported since he launched his $250 million City of Faith Medical and Research Center in 1977. The first revelation was God's command to build the lavish complex, detailing such matters as a design with three towers of 20, 30 and 60 stories. In the next astonishing disclosure, Jesus appeared, standing "some 900 feet tall...
What is Julie Christie doing in this Argentine snooze, when she ought to be igniting bigger, better movies? It is, we guess, an act of both faith and good works for this star with a restless conscience. Some social spirits visit Nicaragua or link hands across America; Christie lends her wattage to a chancy project with a woman director. In the process she gives acting lessons to a diligent but amateur Argentine theatrical troupe. At 45, Christie can appear worn, her face sculpted in suffering, yet on her it looks beautiful. And she is still the consummate actress...
Khashoggi first met Lamia in Milan when she was a 17-year-old named Laura Biancolini. When she married Khashoggi in 1978, she changed her name and converted to the Muslim faith (as had Soraya). Buxom and statuesque with blue, almond-shaped eyes, she is self-possessed and cool. She dresses according to the Joan Collins Dynasty handbook, complete with diamonds and decolletage. With her, as with her husband, more is definitely more. Her idea of casual is to wear a one-inch ruby-and-diamond ring with matching ruby earrings. Her 40- carat diamond wedding ring covers the lower...
...restorative powers. The crystal craze is part of a loosely linked spiritualism gaining ground on both coasts. Called "New Age" thinking, it is an esoteric blend of computer-age jargon and ancient religious practice, which often invested stones with powerful magic. Some other curious elements of the New Age faith include reincarnation, channeling (communing with souls in their afterlife) and psychic predictions. For not-so-New Agers, these prayer rocks are a way to update their Pet Rocks. To the skeptical, the burgeoning fad may give new meaning to the word stoned...
...ignorance and naivete, there is no denying that these may exist in those students as much as in other fallible human beings. But at least those who took to the streets had the distinction, in sharp contrast to some of us, of acting upon their true faith. China should congratulate itself upon having such courageous young men and women among its best and brightest. And it is extremely gratifying for me to realize that, despite so many years of repression, Chinese youth still retains ideals and visions--the best and most precious things of being young...