Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...combined federal, state and municipal government budget deficit for 1983 is projected to exceed $31 billion. Vogel had promised to cancel all the austerity measures that Kohl had taken during his five months as Chancellor prior to the election. Kohl's belt-tightening gospel was undoubtedly unpopular, but Vogel's vow to return to freer spending of dwindling government resources apparently turned out to be an unsatisfactory proposition for most voters. The newly mandated Chancellor is expected to cut where he can, weather the cries of anguish and wait for the beginning of the economic turn-around that...
...store carries publications, pamphlets and posters for the organization which the group of eight collective owners support. "Right now we're selling tickets for a concert by 'Sweet Honey in the Rock.' They play Afro-American gospel music with a political message," he added...
First produced in Boston in 1971, Godspell retells the Gospel according to St. Matthew in a modern frame. DeAngelis has taken the updating process one step further. References to E.T., Valley girls. Olivia Newton John and Steve Martin bring the biblical parables into the '80's. It is apparent that the actors find this as amusing as the audience...
...took to fall in love with Godspell was seeing it once in New York. After producing the show--a celebration of the life of Christ based on the Gospel of St. Matthew--at the Shawnee Playhouse, the show first opened in 1971 for a spectacular 86-week run. A man who says he often acts on first impulses. Kirkwood began to pull strings. He bought the rights to the Broadway production, asked his old friend Stephen de Angels, the Artistic Director of the Shawnee Playhouse and an actor in the original national tour of Godspell to direct and held Equity...
...agents were killed in action. "He gave the sons of the power elite a mission," Brown concludes. "He sent them, as the church had sent missionaries, and the Kremlin its Comintern apparatchiks, to every corner of the globe, to fight the Axis enemy and spread the American gospel of the Four Freedoms." Donovan also taught a still naive America that it was sometimes necessary to use questionable means to preserve freedom. Perhaps for that reason there have been no such heroes since...