Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that if he did not receive $8 million from donors by March 31, God would "call me home." The money was raised, but Roberts' dramatic ultimatum provoked widespread derision. He drew additional gibes by declaring that his wife Evelyn had come to his rescue when the devil visited his bedroom and tried to strangle him. Then, in May, Roberts mailed 1 million packets of "healing" water to followers, advising them to use it to "anoint your billfold" to solve money problems and "anoint your body" to allay physical ills...
Since 1980 movie theaters specializing in pornographic fare have been shuttering -- down to about 250 from 700. But porn video is booming. It now accounts for $1 billion in rentals and sales. Indeed, most porn "movies" today are not films but tapes made directly for the bedroom market. From this view, the Reagan counterrevolution in morality looks to be a roaring success: sex is back in the home, where it belongs. The twist is that...
...After a flurry of cases, the number of libel suits drops off, perhaps because so often no one really comes out a winner. Religion: Some powerful critics want to build more flexibility into the wall of strict church-state separation. Cinema: Turn-on porn films wind up in the bedroom; censors still want to turn them...
Before he left the U.S. for Moscow, Helms made sure he had proper bedroom attire, since he figured he might be photographed by a hidden camera. He also assumed his room would be bugged, and so he put his mind on caution: say nothing sensitive in close quarters. He found himself utterly unsurprised by the city as he drove from the airport to his hotel: "It was drab, monotonous, massive." Only the dazzling, painted spires and domes of the Kremlin and St. Basil's cathedral seemed to challenge the glum and crowded streets. The place brooded, threatened, Helms thought...
Friends who knew Biden decades ago in Delaware recall all three attributes in the brash Irish boy whose charm could command a crowd even then. The Biden family had moved from Scranton when their firstborn, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., was ten. They settled in a neat, three-bedroom house in a middle-class suburban development called Mayfield. Joe Sr., who never attended college, sold Chevrolets. Joe Jr. shared a room with his two brothers. Valerie, who would grow up to manage her brother's campaigns, was the lucky occupant of the third bedroom...