Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...siren song & turns little boys into prematurely dirty men. Once the U.S. cinema was ruled by sentiment; now it is tyrannized by cynicism. Movies have assumed the omniscient sneer of a '50s greaser; they mock or duck any authority, whether the unfeeling parent, the stodgy teacher, the irrelevant clergyman or the brutal cop. And where once there was subtlety in popular art, now there is sensation. Traditional standards have given way to tribal impulses, which push Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers aside to make way for a dance of the seven veils. By now the dancer is naked; the next...
...much as $500,000 at auction. It may also underscore how important it is to have everything in writing -- a reminder that might have spared Ronald Reagan some embarrassment. In his speech to the Republican National Convention, Reagan misattributed to Lincoln maxims actually written by a 20th century Presbyterian clergyman...
...Angeles steak joint in the late '30s and almost a half-decade later, signed him up for his fledgling Capitol Records. Cole was, even then, a sure jazz spirit and a first-rate singer. Born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, Ala., in 1919, he had moved with his clergyman father and family to Chicago in 1923 and started to play professionally while he was still a teenager. Guitarist Oscar Moore and bass player Wesley Prince joined him in 1937 -- a club owner had suggested to Cole that he form a trio -- and "for seven years," as the front man himself...
...accuse Mandela and her guards of having abducted Kgase and the three others from a Methodist shelter and of then trying to pummel them into saying they had had sex with a white minister. Mandela says the youths were taken to her home only to protect them from the clergyman. The minister has been cleared by his church...
...bodyguards, of kidnapping and savagely beating four young black men in her Soweto home on Dec. 29, 1988, because of their alleged sexual encounters with a white minister. Mrs. Mandela claims that the youths were taken to her home when she was away to protect them from the clergyman, who has since been cleared of wrongdoing by his church. She says she took no part in any assault. One of the victims, James "Stompie Moeketsi" Seipie, 14, was later found murdered in a field...