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...call Oral Roberts home" unless by March 31 believers came up with $4.5 million for missionary work. Many Christians, including some Roberts followers, were scandalized by what they perceived to be implicit spiritual blackmail. The Bakker-Roberts furor raised questions about the future of TV evangelism, a fast-growing, klieg-lighted mode of Christian proselytizing -- and fund raising. Counting radio, the gospel broadcasters' total receipts probably approach $2 billion a year. To critics as well as concerned believers, the industry often seems more concerned with bucks than Bibles, and with the personality cults more than the spirit of Christ. Captivated...
...famous lesbian encounter between Celie and the charismatic blues singer Shug is played as if it were a sweet game a mother would teach her adoring child. Male violence is less sexual than paternal. Passion is wanting throughout, and a radiance that emanates from something other than a klieg light. It's all very pretty, but it's cinematography, not cinema...
Flashbulbs popped, klieg lights blazed. On the 17th floor of federal police headquarters in Sao Paulo last week, Romeu Tuma, the mustachioed federal police superintendent who is Brazil's best-known detective, stood amid a gaggle of reporters and television crewmen assembled for a regular briefing. Without delay, Tuma came to the point. The evidence, he said firmly, was steadily mounting that the body, which had been exhumed from a graveyard in the little town of Embu a few days earlier, was that of Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who sent some 400,000 concentration-camp prisoners to their deaths...
These interruptions by artifice amount to rips in the backdrop, allowing a glimpse of props and klieg lights. Circumstance and illusion twinkle briefly, then everything is as it was--or is it? Readers of Nabokov's fiction have been here many times before, but it is diverting to imagine the old magician working onstage...
Relatives of the liberated prisoners waited long past midnight in a jammed terminal at Dulles International Airport, near Washington. Black supporters of the Rev. Jesse Jackson broke into spirited song, creating a revivalist mood. Mobs of reporters and photographers jostled for position. Finally, klieg lights flashed on and in their glare stood Jackson, resplendent in his safari suit and surrounded by a group of released American and Cuban prisoners. A grateful woman rushed tearfully toward the black minister and threw her arms around his chest. Jackson flashed his familiar grin...