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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some suspected that Falwell's move was a ploy to get the judge to back down. But the Fundamentalist minister has ample reason to escape the PTL quagmire and pay closer heed to his troubled operations in Lynchburg, Va. Faced with a recent decline of $5.4 million in contributions to his own TV ministry, Falwell has just stopped purchasing time from 50 of the 340 stations that carry his show. Bakker and his wife Tammy Faye, basking in the resignation news at their mountaintop home near Gatlinburg, Tenn., said they were certainly willing to return if the creditors wished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Falwell Throws In the Towel | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...sideshow cannot shake his awe for celebrities in the main ring. He continues to play rave-up rock 'n' roll -- by now he must have performed Sweet Little Sixteen more times than Judy Garland ever sang Over the Rainbow -- but mostly for middle-class whites whose average age skirts closer to 60 than to 16. He is a goodie playing to oldies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chuck Berry: Still Reelin', Still Rockin' | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

With sharp visual images, von Trotta brings the complex character of Luxemburg closer to the audience. Numerous close-ups establish the communist radical as a figure worthy of sympathy. but these are not the soft focus, flattering close-ups of a romantic film. They are hard and lucid glances, sharp swords of realism which dispel the aura of godliness the film's plot gives Luxemburg...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Rosa Revisited | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

Cornell enjoyed a relatively easy 15-4 victory over the spikers in the first set, but Harvard rebounded to bring the second set closer...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Spikers Bow to Red | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

...Closer Than It Looks...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Ruggers Nab Boston Area Title | 10/13/1987 | See Source »

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