Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...hand. Today voting America will decide whether its faith in the likeable personality is not after all stronger than its faith in conscious leadership. For this is how the campaign has shaped up. On the one hand, there has been good old Ike, with beaming countenance and sincere reassurance. On the other hand, there has been Adlai, looking not quite so All-American, but better-informed and offering a few comprehensive plans for a New America and a chaotic world...
...waiting to leave the plant are unhappy. John--undecided--has worked in paint for 11 years and identified himself as a Christian with a wife and two kids. "I was kind of prepared for the economic disaster," he says as he wipes the grease on his sweatshirt. "I have faith that God will take care of my family." David, 21 years in the commercial division, is less sure about God and more sure about the election. "I want big guns," he says half-jokingly and smiles to reveal the dentures he has worn since the errant bumper from the Ford...
...handle the economy has increased enough during the past two months to allow him to overcome Governor Reagan's lead on that issue. In early September Reagan won the confidence of 66% of the electorate for his ability to run the economy; 57% said they had similar faith in Carter. Now 69% of those surveyed express confidence in Carter and only 56% in Reagan...
Edna Mae (Ellen Burstyn) is a faith healer without an orthodox faith. Though the deaf and the halt are cured at her touch, she is no manic Holy Roller, no snake-shaking spellbinder invoking God's immediate intervention for the sake of a fatter collection plate. She is a sensible Kansas widow, retrieved from a brush with death, who restores health "in the name of love." Love is all she wants to give to the two men in her life: her stern pa (Roberts Blossom), who responds to her proffered caress both as a seduction and a slap...
...Director Petrie have previously worked in the genres of sci-fi schizophrenia (Seconds and Sybil) and domestic conflict (The Great Santini and Eleanor and Franklin). Here, they have tried to blend the two forms, but the film does not always gel. The problem may stem from a lack of faith in its "small," challenging story. When in doubt, Carlino inserts a violent climax, or Petrie thrusts Edna Mae into an afterlife that looks like an overlighted subway tunnel. They are more success ful in illuminating small, crucial scenes from the life of this ordinary woman who happens...