Word: rollings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rock 'n' roll never looked so good. Long renowned for her ability to fill a leotard, Raquel Welch has lately been stepping into the blue-suede shoes--and tight blue jeans--of such superstar rockers as Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger and Bruce Springsteen. As part of her touring nightclub act, Welch does a medley of tunes that span three musical gen- erations, from Heartbreak Hotel to Satisfaction to Born in the U.S.A. Says Welch: "I've always been a kind of mimic. I'm just doing now what I've done in the privacy of my own home. I really...
...face of Gospel TV's theological simplifications and secular agendas, its sometimes overbearing personalities and unrelenting emphasis on money, should earnest Christians simply shun electronic religion altogether? To Hollywood's Ogilvie, that is not an option: "Otherwise we roll over and play dead." Jim Bakker sees video technology as the means to fulfill Jesus' 2,000- year-old injunction to reach out to the world and spread the Gospel. If Jesus were on earth today, Bakker asserts, "he'd have to be on TV. That would be the only way he could reach the people he loves...
...them, the Steppenwolf collective, capturing a 1985 Tony Award as the nation's best regional theater. While much of the rest of the American theater seems overrefined, elite and abstract, the Chicago troupes have built an enthusiastic mainstream audience for what many of the artists characterize as "rock-'n'-roll theater," rough-edged, noisy, pulsating with energy, appealing less to the mind than to the heart and groin...
...Rochester, Minn., Bachman's, a prominent Minnesota florist, runs a row of well-stocked kiosks called the European Flower Markets, where customers can shop without passing through any doors. And in Miami, New York and other cities, traffic-dodging vendors hawk $2 bunches to motorists who are willing to roll down their windows...
Amid the chronic bloodletting of Central America, Costa Rica stands out as an oasis of calm. But when the quadrennial presidential elections roll around, the country erupts into a celebration of its nearly century-old democracy that resembles nothing quite so much as a homecoming football game. Music blares, drivers honk, and flags decorate the streets. The Feb. 2 elections were no different. After more than 1 million voters went to the polls, Oscar Arias Sanchez of the ruling National Liberation Party emerged triumphant with 52.3% of the vote, defeating the Social Christian Unity Party's Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier...