Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opressors and that we have commited our lives to fighting the oppression of oursleves as well as others." One hopes that Bell does not abandon his search for a new way of talking about civil rights and that And We Are Not Saved marks the beginnings of a legal movement that forces Americans finally to realize their own ideals...
...exit of Falwell plainly ends the initial era of the Religious Right and quickens speculation on its prospects in the next phase. Even as Pat Robertson escalates his evangelically inspired presidential bid, recent tidings seem to amount to a threnody of waning influence for the movement. Television ministries have had a particularly rocky time. The Contribute or Else I Die campaign of Oral Roberts disgusted many Americans as well as his own church, which ruled last month that Roberts' status is not, and never has been, that of a United Methodist clergyman. Above all, the horrendous PTL scandal has harmed...
...Judas, Daniel Banks faces the challenge of playing one of history's great villains. When Webber and Rice wrote the part, they elected to present Judas as sympathetic--one of Jesus' followers who thinks that the movement and the adulation have gotten out of control...
Tomassoni has been encouraging movement on the power play, training his skaters to move to other players' positions. "They [the five players] have to be able to play other people's positions on the power play," Tomassoni said. "In practice we do a lot of interchange, so that when it happens in a game, the position won't feel foreign to them...
...later magazine pieces about Southern stock-car racing, California auto customizers, Manhattan's Pop art world, funky fashions and the navel engagements of the self-awareness movement confirmed Wolfe's originality. Unlike the reigning intellectuals of the day, he took American mass culture at face value, though not with a straight face. His New Journalism combined the skills and stamina of an ace reporter with the techniques of fiction, and it reached its peak in The Right Stuff, the 1979 recounting of the lives and times of the Mercury astronauts...