Word: worshipers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playgrounds," says Architect David K. Cooper, 28, who designed the Salem Baptist Church, Orland Park, Ill., and St. John the Baptist Church in Winfield, Ill. "The '70s were the years of Christian fellowship and multiple-purpose meetingrooms. Now, in the '80s, it seems, the emphasis is on worship...
...Castro) were hardly taken into consideration. Why bother? Of course, there is a lesson to be learned from The Kennedy Imprisonment, a lesson which Wills rightly thinks the country should take to heart: Don't equate power with physical strength or with talking tough. America was guilty of hero-worship when it embraced the Kennedy's but we are also guilty of hero-worshipping ourselves, or believing in our special "claims" or "right" or destiny or mission...
...history. It provides the audience with its favorite (American) kind of entertainment, while soothing consciences about any collective guilt. These men are good; They are soldiers, not Nazis, Mostly they are dark-haired, Southern-spoken. Only one "overgrows Hitlerjugend," as the captain calls him, shows a tendency toward uniform-worship and blond Aryan arrogance. The tall, chisel-cheeked heroes of Leni Riefenstahl could never fit in the low ceilings and grime of a submarine...
...proverb tells newlyweds: "You're married until your hair turns white." In practice, however, divorce, while almost impossible for women to initiate, has traditionally been easy for men. All the husband had to do was send an emissary to his father-in-law to declare that he "cannot worship at the ancestral shrine with your daughter any longer." The father-in-law usually acquiesced, with apologies for not having brought his daughter up properly...
...cold to glitter: Arlene Francis, Paul Simon, Norman Mailer, Mrs. Frank Sinatra, Adolph Green, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Andy Warhol, Christopher Walken and Liza Minnelli. It is important at such events that especially celebrated ladies be whisked quickly through the crowd before the groundlings can become unruly in their worship, and Nastassia Kinski, one of the film's stars, wanly beautiful in a white coat, was duly whisked. On the most elementary level, Coppola's risk of $24,000 for a Sunday New York Times ad and something more than $20,000 to hire the Music Hall had paid...