Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case of a child killer defies any faith in rehabilitation...
...TAKES A CERTAIN ACT OF FAITH, THE first time a mother and father let their children go out and play by themselves. Faith that sons and daughters will cross streets safely, that they will abide by their curfew, that they will remember not to talk to strangers. Faith that when they go to the park, someone like Westley Allan Dodd will not be there waiting for them...
Westley Dodd is the man who shook the faith of enough people in the state of Washington to prompt legislators to pass the U.S.'s most unforgiving, possibly unconstitutional, laws against sexual predators. After his sentencing for the kidnap, rape and murder of three little boys in 1989, hardened reporters who covered the case sought counseling to help them handle what they had heard in court. A therapist who treated Dodd even said, "Wes ought...
...greatest of Broadway musicals was exuberantly revived there as a color- drenched, clownish yet passionate paean to a big-city zest and vitality that no longer exist, and probably never did. Faith Prince's Miss Adelaide was the year's musical highlight...
...Fosse gave Herb Gardner the nickname Whimsy. But Gardner, 58, reveals a far deeper writer in this story of a Jewish barkeep in Lower Manhattan who is sure that success will come from assimilation, endless self- reinvention and unstinting faith in the American Dream. The tale, narrated by a once rebellious son who is now himself a rebelled-against father, came from Seattle Repertory Theater to Broadway...