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...professor Elizabeth Loftus. Well, folklore reigned in Wenatchee, Washington--Has anyone checked the state water supply?--site of perhaps the most notorious such case. There, Pastor Robert Roberson and about a dozen parishioners were said to have lined up to have sex with young children in front of the altar while shouting, "Hallelujah, there goes the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

...case of Arianna, after plighting her troth to Newt (who then chose not to go to the altar) and flirting with Colin (who also got cold feet), she and other Newt loyalists have been batting their eyes at Lamar Alexander, and Lamar is panting for the attention. Before Christmas, Arianna played host at a breakfast and dinner with other neoconservatives to meet Alexander and offer him their ideas. "Lamar is most in sync with the idea of deepening the Republican realignment," says William Kristol, the neoconservative guru. Thus the candidate posing as an outsider sealed his dalliance with Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOOKING FOR MR. RIGHT | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...reality, the artist was neither the satanic cultural polluter portrayed by right wing detractors, though he might have appreciated the comparison, nor the tortured soul martyred on the altar of true art. Mapplethorpe's ambitions were simpler and, frankly, more selfish than that. He wanted to be a star, and that's what he got, at least for a while. In the words of his former lover and patron Sam Wagstaff, Mapplethorpe was finally "the belle of the ball...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: Portrait of the Artist as a Young (Flim-Flam) Man | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...adenoidal lyricism known as Adelaide's Lament made Vivian Blaine a White Way legend, so linked to the character of the warmhearted show girl who spoke Runyonese that she was the only lead from the original run to appear in the 1955 movie (opposite Frank Sinatra as the altar-averse Nathan Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 25, 1995 | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

Santa will also recognize some of the less well known Harvard athletes. The intramural teams of Cabot House are well on their way to winning the Strauss Cup for the second consecutive year. Santa will give Cabot House an altar on which to place the Strauss Cup so that all other house intramural teams may worship...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Santa's Visit to Harvard | 12/13/1995 | See Source »

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