Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name was catchy, bold and more than a trifle arrogant. Moral Majority. Rarely has an organization set so many teeth on edge so rapidly. The man who founded this multifaith right-wing organization in 1979 was a Fundamentalist of modest renown who was fast on his feet and firm in his convictions. Within a year, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, riding the Reagan tide, had become the most prominent spokesman for the loose coalition known as the Religious Right...
Another long-held assumption is fading fast: that women are ever ready to pack up and travel for a husband's advancement. Now men are often doing the moving. Russ Ringl is giving up his position as vice president of human resources for Playboy in Chicago to follow his wife Karen to Los Angeles, where she has become vice president for nursing services at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan. Finding a satisfying job is proving a slow process, he says, though he remains optimistic. Still, he concedes, "if I was going to have a mid-life crisis, this...
Unlike Peer(less), the production of Orphee can't be faulted for excessive length. In fact, Prascak compresses all the action--including journeys from Earth to Hell and back again and then to Heaven--into less than an hour. Scenes, events, allusions and jokes fly by altogether too fast. And Prascak too often seems less concerned with making the myth relevant than with, say, an allusion to Alice's Restaurant...
This season's power play has been designed to capitalize on the fast skating ability of its five-man regiment--C.J. Young, Ted Donato, Peter Ciavaglia, Pawloski and Sweeney. The Crimson plans to use openings in the opposing defense and create more options in the man-up situation...
...school, Raffield quickly aroused suspicion. "When someone tries so hard to fit in fast, you know something is wrong," said a teenager familiar with the scene. Raffield obviously was not a typical student. For one thing, ( the school assigned him three lunch periods. Some students called him "21 Jump Street," after the TV show about undercover cops on the high school beat...