Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gatos, Calif., Christian Church. Pastor Marvin Rickard founded the congregation a quarter-century ago with 83 followers and an unshakable belief in inerrancy. Today a huge redwood-finished church sits on a trimly tailored 28-acre property, and 6,500 worshipers pack the three Sunday services. From this solid base, Pastor Rickard organized a referendum campaign that in 1980 helped repeal a Santa Clara County ordinance forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual preference...
...record sounds like sunshine and turns out to be a tonic rebuke to solid values and positive thinking. "Well, I've seen sex and I think it's okay" goes the unsolicited but unimpassioned testimonial in Creatures of Love, one of two songs on the album that are about children. Like the visionary folk art that decorates the record sleeve, these two tunes about little ones impart a deceptively cozy air that is undercut with a keen sardonic edge. "We are . . . creatures of love/ From the sleep of reason" is the way the refrain runs, and Little Creatures becomes...
...part of the place's supposed charm. Slightly more upscale is The Chart House (60 Long Warf; Aquarium 'T' stop). The setting is warm and tasteful without pretension--wood everywhere, low lighting and not too much noise. Everything--from the clam chowder to the chocolate desserts--is solid, satisfying, and not a huge strain on the pocketbook...
...such showdowns. Instead, the President's top aides insist, the situation was handled in an orderly and subdued manner that seemed to come straight from the pages of an introductory textbook on crisis management, a style that reflected the methodical and unemotional approach of National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane. Solid principles, they say, were established early on, and all future decisions flowed from them. From Day One, when he was awakened before dawn by a phone call from McFarlane, President Reagan made one thing clear: the U.S. would make no concessions to terrorism, nor would it pressure other nations...
...first general election since Zimbabwe won independence from Britain five years ago might prove to be its last. Nearly 3 million black voters flooded the polls last week to provide Prime Minister Robert Mugabe with a solid victory, and a mandate for continuing toward his stated goal of transforming Zimbabwe into a one-party, Marxist-Leninist state...