Word: crouch
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...crouch in the corner
...grand wooden chairs with these mottoes carved in them, and talks about its own survival. Our emotions languish with the seasons, because there is seldom any heat in the building; during the winter, we huddle in our overcoats about the table (many choose to wear gloves and hats) or crouch like Milton's toad before the fireplace, burning old issues of The Advocate to keep warm. Exalted, we are artists, suffering through the cold moment of neglect. Our words perish in the brittle air; we are stunned at seeing our own breath dissolve in clouds above the table...
...roped to the front of the jeep, and, with the camera mounted in front of him on the hood, would shoot a conversation between Tommy and Nora as the car sped down the highway at 25 m.p.h. Eric would crouch in the back of the jeep with the tape recorder, holding the mike below the range of the camera...
...winter night, the neon signs of Crouch Temple glow with a lonely halo in the Los Angeles mist. Central Avenue, not far from the scene of the 1965 Watts riots, is quiet. But inside the temple, a converted theater, the night is alive. Some 2,000 people-black, white and brown-are turned toward the stage, crying "Hallelujah" and "God be praised!" For more than an hour the tension has been building up. Testimonies, gospel songs, pledges, blessings, and more songs-a writhing, Presleyan, shirt-open gospel rock driven home by an organ, drums and piano combo. Women are swaying...
...pitch for their own services. Allen's specialty, along with the cures, is the $100 pledge, and the hard sell is usually made by one of his assistants. "The Scriptures say you got to vow and pay, vow and pay, vow and pay," Brother Don Stewart exhorted the Crouch Temple crowd last week. "You got to promise God, and you got to keep the promise. If you want him to lift your pain, to make you whole, to bring you joy, you got to have faith. Faith. And faith...