Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hsin Chiao bar, habitues advise visitors to stick to the excellent domestic beer. Chinese champagne ($2 a bottle) is cloyingly sweet, and the fiery mao-tai, a vodka-like spirit distilled from millet that is a favorite formal banquet tipple, reams out the unwary Western esophagus like a Roto-Rooter...
GODSPELL (72). A group of attractive, energetic and convivially winning youngsters bring the Jesus revolution to the New York theater. There is a sweet gravity behind all the funmaking; and while some may find the occasion irreverent, others will feel that the early followers of Christ must have shared some of this springtime zeal and ebullience...
...message: the Bible is true, miracles happen, God really did so love the world that he gave it his only begotten son. In 1966 Beatle John Lennon casually remarked that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ; now the Beatles are shattered, and George Harrison is singing My Sweet Lord. The new young followers of Jesus listen to Harrison, but they turn on only to the words of their Master: "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them...
...been cut from welfare, they took up a $42 collection at the I Am coffeehouse, left her groceries, cash and a message that read simply "from Jesus." The house reaches large groups through its hard-rock band, the Wilson McKinley, which recently helped draw 8,000 to a "Sweet Jesus Rock Concert" at Stanford University. The Jesus People almost lost the crowd when one evangelist told the collegians they should "abstain from sexual immorality, and that means abstain except in marriage. We're finding this is the last area people want to give up." There were no cheers but, astonishingly...
...Broadway next fall, is already a bestselling record album; at New York City's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church recently, a minister smilingly baptized a baby "In the name of the Father, the Holy Ghost, and Jesus Christ Superstar." Amazing Grace, Put Your Hand in the Hand and My Sweet Lord are top-40 hits, and Jesus-rock groups, most of them converts, roam the country under such names as Hope, Dove and The Joyful Noise...