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...response to the critics, an aide to Schuller insists that the minister also believes in the doctrine but wants to adapt biblical principles to today's audience: "The Gospel message has what every human being is looking for. The problem is that we're not marketing it." As for Robertson, a spokeswoman contends that his words have been "distorted" and "taken out of context...
...playing a woman, particularly one that's supposed to be the heartthrob of the show. He carries off his new persona with grace and humor. His "Wilhemina Wordsworth" character is melodramatic yet snide, and Tomarken plays her to the hilt. And his excellent rendition of the gospel tune "I'm Getting Married and I'm Mourning" is definitely one of the high points of the show...
...When they targeted him, it boomeranged," says Schaefer's former press secretary, Bob Douglas. Some of the N.R.A.'s legislative allies have also been put off by the group's habit of turning upon old friends for a single departure from gospel. Arizona Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini, a longtime N.R.A. supporter, is now targeted in N.R.A. literature because he sponsored one of several bills before Congress that propose to ban assault rifles...
...Michael Bennett, creator of A Chorus Line, shaped this propulsive story of black entertainers fighting for integrity while entering the mainstream. It suggested that key civil rights gains came when white youths accepted black music as "theirs." Jennifer Holliday gave the musical performance of the decade as a gutsy gospel-blues shouter...
...order to believe the Soviet Union is capable of waging and quite possibly winning a war against the West, one has to accept as gospel a hoary and dubious cliche about the U.S.S.R.: the place is a hopeless mess where nothing works, with the prominent and crucial exception of two institutions -- the armed forces and the KGB. A Kremlin that cannot put food on its people's tables can put an SS-18 warhead on top of a Minuteman silo in North Dakota, some 5,000 miles away. Even though 15% to 20% of the grain harvested on the collective...