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...play rather than sitting still in church, and he kept at it. He says he now loves to play in front of audiences because he uses the piano keys to transmit his mood and the listeners echo his mood so that he can refine what he is doing and build on it as he plays it. The tools he learned from Shapiro, he says, taught him to understand what he was doing and a repertory of techniques to speak to his audience even better...
...came in and gave them a lot of inspiration," Worthy said of Kite, who helped the Celtics build a 56-41 rebounding advantage...
Manwaring's and Vanderbyl's expansive ambitions are reminiscent of the 1930s and '40s, when a few well-known designers proposed to remake the nation -- objects, interiors, buildings, anything. In Northern California today, that can-do catholicism is abetted by the stylish young entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley and Marin County, who have no fixed ideas about orthodoxy in design or about what a designer does and does not do. "If someone asked me to build a building," Manwaring declares, "I'd say yes." Vanderbyl agrees and ups the ante. In fact, he says, "I want to do everything...
...take, however, was piddling compared with the amounts of PTL cash the auditors have been trying to trace. Supporters had sent in $50 million to build an addition to the PTL hotel at Fort Mill -- a project now in suspension -- but only $11 million was allotted to construction. The Bakkers have drawn salaries and bonuses of $4.8 million since 1984; they and top aides also picked up $640,000 in unexplained cash advances. One Bakker friend, James Taggart, got $120,000 a year to decorate Tammy and Jim's residences. Peter Teeley, Vice President George Bush's former press secretary...
...goal was to protest the new national-security legislation that, according to the opposition, will all but duplicate martial law prohibitions -- in short, old wine in a new bottle. In an effort to build a consensus inside as well as outside the KMT, Chiang has permitted extensive discussion of the proposed law in the Legislative Yuan, in which the KMT holds 287 of 321 seats. The hard-line KMT members oppose softening martial law until Peking renounces its intent to bring Taiwan into the fold of the People's Republic -- by force if necessary...