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...That the kook factor will do Robertson in. President Reagan believes in miracles and carries lucky charms in his pocket at all times. But he never wrestled with a hurricane on television. Even the glossy Jerry Falwell, with all his equivocal gifts, disdains glossolalia. Robertson, on the other hand, despite his prickliness about being called a television evangelist these days, has been captured on video showing all his Pentecostal fervor. The networks last week showed clips of him waving his arms as he spoke of curing hemorrhoids. In an interview with David Frost that aired this Sunday, Robertson defended...
...something of a lottery, and the second was waged in the heavier breezes that Stars & Stripes candidly preferred. But in the third race, just one upwind leg in moderate Kookaburra weather told Murray his fate. Near the dismal end of that afternoon, a rubber speedboat pulled up alongside the Kook captain. " 'You've got a bomb on board,' they said. 'What do you want to do?' Our immediate response was, 'What's the bad news?' Then we thought, 'Here's our chance to find out if there's life after 12-meter racing.' " The bomb was a hoax, but questions...
...Sang Kook Nam, 37, and his wife Seon Kyung, 35, respectively a mechanical engineer and a nurse, arrived from South Korea in 1974 to live with Nam's brother in Michigan. Nam pumped gas for the first year, saving enough to open his own filling station, then a body shop, then a used-car dealership. His wife, meanwhile, started a jewelry store. In 1979 the Nams sold their businesses and set out for Los Angeles, where Nam attended dry-cleaning school and within six months made a $20,000 down payment on a store. That has since expanded...
What a difference a year makes: Shirley the Survivor has become Shirley the Superstar. The aging sprite has ripened into the overpowering character actress. The unfocused dilettante has been redefined as the Renaissance woman. The lovable kook with the carefree sex life and oddball ideas has been transmuted into a role model of a self-possessed, successful woman at 50. Shirley MacLaine, who always attracted affection, now commands respect. Her triumph is proof of the power of positive thinking-and action. MacLaine is lean, fit, happier and more attractive than ever. She has worked hard to keep limber physically...
Reporters' dogged questions about his marital separations and his age change, it seems, merely nettle him. What really burns him up, he said, are the press portrayals of his late mother. "They're making her out to be some sort of religious nut, a kook. She was a normal, hardworking, Godfearing woman, and she gave us the best upbringing she could." Nina Hart, who died in 1972, was a member of the Church of the Nazarene. Some stories have depicted her as severe and neurasthenic and have dwelt on her habit of moving the family frequently. Hart noted...