Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oral Roberts was fasting in his Tulsa Prayer Tower, a 200-ft.-tall glass- and-steel spire on the Oral Roberts University campus, and still awaiting this week's life-threatening deadline, despite a surprise stay of execution -- a gift of $1.3 million from Jerry Collins, a short, gruff dog-track owner from Sarasota, Fla. ("It's very seldom I ever go to church," said the philanthropic Collins. "I help them all.") Roberts, feeling perkier after the donation, proclaimed Bakker a "prophet of God," who had been victimized by an "unholy trio of forces," presumably referring to Swaggart, the Assemblies...
...California, became Roper's partner in the project. Hahn told Roper that Bakker had pressured her into sex. Roper says, "She was overwhelmed by being in the presence of this man ((Bakker)), who was second to God in her mind." Roper said that Fletcher had given Hahn a glass of wine, and that at some time after, she had engaged in sex with Bakker for one hour. In a vivid if inelegant assessment of her plight, Roper disclosed, Hahn later said she felt like a "piece of hamburger somebody threw out into the street...
...unfriendly "takeover" bid for PTL and threatened that if this preacher did not back off, "we're going to be compelled to show that there is smellier laundry in his hamper than the laundry he thought was in Rev. Bakker's." A mysterious allusion to people living in "glass churches" suggested that Grutman was slyly fingering Televangelist Robert Schuller of Garden Grove, Calif., and Crystal Cathedral fame. Grutman eventually confirmed that the mysterious plotter was not Schuller but Jimmy Swaggart...
...theory does not always survive morning light. But Anthropologist Solomon Katz believes civilization may indeed have begun with the first beer. Ten thousand years ago, man the hunter-gatherer settled down to civilized crop raising. Just why has never been clear, however. Katz, 47, who hoists a civilizing glass or two himself, argues in the University of Pennsylvania's anthropology magazine that one key was the accidental fermenting of a beer from cereal grains...
...details have a light touch; the forms are blessedly simple. Tange's best designs embody heavenward sweep, a figurative and literal uplift. The central feature of a printing plant in Numazu (1954) is a great set of steel trusses, a wing- like cantilever from which the factory's glass walls hang. It is one of the more elegant postwar industrial buildings. St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo is a kind of Gothic abstraction, two enormous concrete shells sandwiched together and suspended from above, covered in an acre of stainless steel...