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...bizarre experience. As the pair interviewed the controversial PTL founder at his home in Gatlinburg, Tenn., the questions inevitably became sensitive. Bakker grew livid. Recalls Hull: "His eyes smoldered. He got more fidgety. Then he leaped from his living-room chair and dashed to the kitchen in a huff. I started to follow after him, but was dissuaded by Bakker's cadre of supporters, who said a prayer for us." To many of Bakker's admirers, reporters seemed to need straightening out. "I endured long lectures by Bakker's followers, who scolded me for doing the devil's work," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Aug. 3, 1987 | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

...initial seed money for the museum -- $1 million each, spread over four years. Palevsky wanted a plain hangar of a building, as little ) "architecture" as possible. But after a two-day slugfest of a meeting, the board voted 17-3 for Isozaki, at which Palevsky resigned in a huff and sued for half his money back. But by then other key grants were in line. The "major breakthrough," according to Director Richard Koshalek, was getting Security Pacific Banker Carl Hartnack on the MOCA board. This gave MOCA real standing with the downtown business establishment, which came to see the museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Getting On the Map | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...simply got to the point where he did not get his way in a cetain matter, and he resigned in a huff," explains Namazee, who discontinued the fellowship during the 1984-85 academic year...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: The Center of Controversy | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...cutting short their encore to signal displeasure with the violent slamdancing that a minority of the undoubtedly underage crowd began near the stage. "We can't play if someone's going to hurt someone else," said singer and guitarist Dave Faulkner as the band left the stage in a huff, reaching a clarity of insight and purpose unaccustomed in the Gurus' lyrics...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Gurus From Down Under | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...symbol of American entrepreneurs. In his tax speech last week, President Reagan alluded to its two founders, Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, who started the firm in a garage and set out on a "golden future." The President may have spoken too soon. Wozniak left the company in a huff in February after a disagreement over policy, and last week Jobs lost his position as director of the division that produces the company's powerful and popular Macintosh computer. The move came as part of a major company reorganization. John Sculley, Apple's chief executive and president whom Jobs hired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Shaking the Apple Tree | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

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