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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some successful boomer churches are shrines to secular movements, particularly the 12-step programs modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous. "We refer to ourselves as wounded healers," says Minister Mike Matoin of Unity in Chicago, himself a former bellhop, bouncer, cabdriver, and child of an alcoholic. "A lot of baby boomers can relate to us. We've been through our / own recovery, and we're not on a pedestal." If a spiritual search is going on, it is for an inner child. In a room remarkably empty of religious paraphernalia, on a riser, behind the pulpit, an enormous teddy bear sits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Church Search | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...whose role seems limited to one line about needing psychiatric assistance. She lives with fellow Radcliffe alum Margaret Gaminsky, a psychology researcher who work with chimpanzees. When they decide to renovate their apartment, the two women hire Mutt Vespucci (Chris Wilder), a crude, unpretentious handy-person, bike messenger and bouncer who delves into a tortuous love-hate relationship with Margaret...

Author: By David E. Rosen, | Title: Strangers In a World Of Angst | 7/31/1992 | See Source »

John Nowaczyk '92, a Government concentrator who works as a bouncer at the Bow and Arrow Pub, says he knows all these tricks...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, | Title: FAKING IT IN HARVARD SQUARE | 3/7/1992 | See Source »

...Last week, a guy gives me I.D. that says he won't be 21 until August." Bill, the bouncer at Grendel's, said. When the minor was turned down, "the guy barks, 'I'll take my business elsewhere.' He had a lot of faith in the idea that...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, | Title: FAKING IT IN HARVARD SQUARE | 3/7/1992 | See Source »

...told the fledgling bouncer the ins and outs of doing security at a bar. He told him about tricks people pull and how to avoid them. "For two hours he told me all the things a bouncer should know," he says...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: From Bikers To Preppies, Bud Hats To Chinos | 12/14/1990 | See Source »

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