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...Blaize won a five-year term as government leader. During that time he took a correspondence course in law, finally earning a degree after ten years. Critics claim that Blaize's first term was uninspired; supporters answer that his patience and caution now make him the perfect national healer. Says George Brizan, a victorious N.N.P. parliamentary candidate: "People are not prepared to experiment with their lives any more...
...wisdom was reported by Luke, the storytelling healer who became a first-rate campaigner of sorts himself some 2,000 years ago. Granted, that advice is a little strong for modern American political hyperbole, but then these times may demand radical doctrine because rarely has a presidential campaign begun so negatively and had the potential to descend into a cauldron of concentrated accusation undiluted by reason or enlightenment...
...opening scene shows a bizarre gathering, what looks like a mixture of a seance and a suffragette fund-raiser at a musty Boston club. Featured performers are a "Dr." Tarrant, full-time charlatan, faith-healer, and medium. The message is provided by his charming, red-haired daughter Verena (Madeleine Potter) who, assisted by her father's attendant spirits, delivers a heart-wrenching address on behalf of oppressed women. The camera alternates between a prim-looking, middle-aged woman listening to Verena's rhetoric in mystic rapture, tears in her eyes: and a handsome young man, listening with appreciation that looks...
That fear probably is exaggerated. Jackson sloughs it off as "negative hype and speculation" by the media. Says he: "I am not going to tear up the Democratic Party." He vows to be a "healer," not a "spoiler." Last week he called on D.N.C. Chairman Charles Manatt, and to Manatt's huge relief promised that he would not bolt the party at the convention. He never intended to, he says. The idea of a walkout was "Manatt's magnificent obsession." It is in Jackson's interest to compromise, and he knows it. If he wants...
...after a wrenching divorce and remarriage (his first wife has custody of their two children). During an appearance with the Roberts singing group in Albuquerque, he spontaneously called for all arthritis sufferers to step forth. As he prayed, one woman claimed that she had been cured. With that, a healer was born...