Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journalism major at the University of Maryland, learned that TIME had scheduled a Show Business story on the impact of AIDS on the arts. He promptly volunteered to photograph a gathering of entertainers paying tribute to AIDS victims in show business. To Bower's delight, two of his pictures ran with the story...
Often the formula continued to pay off. The precredit sequence almost always packed more gasps, laughs and subplots into six minutes than most movies do in 60. It also meant that conventions established in the early films ran the risk of calcifying in the later ones. Plenty of cleavage, but no nudity. Innuendos but no dirty words. Most important, a dogged adherence to old-fashioned storytelling -- which, in an industry that has thrown narrative logic outuendo, can make an 007 film seem slow moving. But Bonds were never aimed at the thrills-above-all youth market. Or even, primarily...
President Reagan in 1980 essentially ran on a platform calling for the removal of the federal government from local matters. Followers hailed his philosophy as the new federalism. Reagan quickly became the focal point for a conservative populism which set out to protect the autonomy of the small town from the encroachment of the federal government...
...those excesses, however, paled beside PTL's underlying corporate style. PTL ran, says one former executive, on a "theology of building." Recounts Harry Hargrave, a Dallas businessman recruited by Falwell to run the shattered organization: "Jim would build something here, and then he'd have to build something bigger to finish paying for this as well as the enlarged cash flow." That pyramid philosophy led Bakker from his first Heritage Village television studio in Charlotte to Heritage USA and, finally, to the 500-room Heritage Grand Hotel and its sister, the unfinished Heritage Towers. Bakker's ultimate fantasy...
...rectitude that Falwell is administering at PTL has spilled over into his own Lynchburg ministry. Last month the organization published a rare 16-page report that included a succinct two-page financial summary. For the year ending June 1986, the document noted, ministry revenues totaled $84.1 million and expenses ran to $82.9 million. Total assets were valued at $91.5 million, while liabilities totted up to $56.5 million. However, Falwell would provide TIME with no audited, detailed financial statements for the ministry...