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...Among other things, the IRS report called Jim Bakker's compensation for 1981 ($259,770.29), 1982 ($400,765.58) and 1983 ($638,112.27) excessive. The agency raised questions about a host of other Bakker-PTL arrangements. Among them: PTL's purchase of a $390,000 condominium for Bakker in Highland Beach, Fla., in 1982, along with $202,566 that was spent on furniture and fixtures; and an interest-free loan of almost $76,000 to Bakker from the ministry. For its part, the ministry argued that Bakker's salary was reasonable because he was the "guiding light" of the ministry...
...image that is, in this case, far off the mark. Unlike their strident, better known and more ancient Scottish cousins, the Irish (or Uilleann) bagpipes are soft and melodic; their construction is different, and no one wears an ethnic costume for performances. Not that the Irish scorn the Highland pipes; they play them too, on occasions like St. Patrick's Day parades, but that is in part because the Irish pipes cannot be played standing up. Besides, they are not very loud. The Scottish variety is challenging enough, but Uilleann pipes are in a class by themselves. They are difficult...
...master piper for a decade. He did have an unfair advantage: his father George was a folk musician and music teacher before it was fashionable and was a founder of the venerable Philadelphia Folk Song Society. Tim started on baritone ukulele before he was eight and took up the Highland pipes at eleven (the "war pipes," he calls them, an appropriate name for an instrument that is the Scottish equivalent of the bugle...
...That pulling this off might require the implacable imagination of Doris Lessing does not seem to have daunted the author, whose career suggests a practical attitude toward the writing game. See has had good critical success with her novels Rhine Maidens and Mothers, Daughters. As a component of "Monica Highland," she has collaborated on mass-market romances (Lotus Land and 110 Shanghai Road). There is also Professor See, who teaches writing at UCLA, and See a book reviewer for the Los Angeles Times...
...didn't know the Highland fling from a sailor's hornpipe," he said later. "I watched the fellow's feet next to me and did what he did." He quickly graduated to Broadway musicals, then in 1930 was brought to Hollywood as a contract player for Warner Bros., the studio that had ushered in the talkies a few years earlier with The Jazz Singer. Many silent-film stars' careers were destroyed by the triumph of sound; Cagney's was ensured by it. He was one of the first actors to grab an audience by sending dialogue special delivery, with...