Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abilities were evident at an early age. The daughter of a steelworker who had sung with a gospel quartet, Kathleen was the youngest of seven children, a diligent student growing up in a segregated but, as she remembers it, happy Portsmouth neighborhood. Even as a child singing in her Protestant church choir, she was something special. Remembers Voice Teacher Charles % Varney, who first heard her sing when she was eight: "It was a shock to me to hear this tiny little thing singing so beautifully. I went to her later and told her God had blessed her, and she must...
...five months ago and predicted that it would bring on "a second American revolution." Urged the President: "America, go for it!" But as Reagan wound up a nationwide series of rallies to promote his proposal, it was apparent that America was not going for it. Preaching his tax- simplification gospel in Boise last week, the President won the same enthusiastic applause he had received at other barnstorming stops. Yet as Republican Senator Steve Symms observed, "They were cheering, but it was for him, not for tax reform." Various polls indicate public apathy on the proposal despite general support...
...news that Franklin is back quickly sours when you give this record a listen. It may be true that Franklin shares a few stripes with Tina Turner--both apparently are tough-minded, independent women who have taken their knocks. But musically they are miles apart. Where Franklin cruises the gospel-inflected domain of church R&B, Turner remains raunch'n roll's preeminent gasp-and-grinder. One sells her soul, the other...
...Jerry Sloan; in Sacramento, Calif. On a TV talk show last year, Falwell promised that sum to Homosexual Activist Sloan if he could prove that Falwell had publicly denounced a gay church where Sloan once served as a minister. Sloan produced a 1984 videotape of Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour, in which he referred to the gay church as "part of a vile and satanic system." Said Sloan: "It's the first time the man's been held accountable for what he's said, in a court of law." Falwell plans to appeal...
...swallowed 13 eggs, eleven chickens, nine guineas and a billy goat. For some reason, most of the stories seemed to be about things that had swallowed things. This line of thought seemed much appreciated, especially by children, who listened slack-jawed, accepting the fictional terrors of nature as gospel...