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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preceded it, as did the Who's "rock opera" Tommy -- but its impact was extraordinary. Lloyd Webber hated Director Tom O'Horgan's lurid, heavenzapoppin' staging, which featured a transvestite Herod, Judas in silver briefs and Christ emerging from a huge chalice clad in a $20,000 glittering robe. Christian as well as Jewish groups protested the show as offensive, but it ran for 720 performances before heading off to the West End and more than 20 other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Magician of The Musical | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...results, slow at first, are flowering now with a burst of construction. Since 1981 some 1,500 new churches have been completed, bringing the national total to about 15,000. Currently, more than 1,000 others are under way. The boom represents what may be the largest increase in Christian churches anywhere in the world today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Poland's New Building Boom | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...addition, the funding of Robertson's early political efforts is being investigated by the IRS. Michael McManus, a syndicated columnist specializing in religious issues, has documented $8.4 million that went from Robertson's tax-exempt Christian Broadcasting Network to now defunct "educational" groups like the Freedom Council, which allegedly paid for much of the TV preacher's initial political organizing. The Robertson campaign has not disputed McManus' figures, which were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. But Communications Director Constance Snapp says, "All monies given to the Freedom Council by CBN were perfectly legitimate from both a legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Teflon Twins of 1988 | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

After a 40- year ban on new churches, Poland bursts with what may be the world' s biggest Christian ecclesiastical building boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page January 11, 1988 | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

Geography gave Gorbachev a mighty assist too. Christian Schmidt-Hauer, a West German journalist and biographer, observes that if Gorbachev had been party chief in, say, Murmansk in the far north, he would never have become General Secretary. But in Stavropol Krai, he was on hand to welcome top Moscow officials who came to the local spas at Mineralnye Vody and Kislovodsk for vacations and medical treatment. They found their host unusual in several respects. Says Soviet Historian Roy Medvedev: "A regional party first secretary who was intelligent and congenial would have been considered untypical. If Gorbachev had yelled, sworn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Education of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

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