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Then came the Bakker mess, first the revelation of the PTL leader's adultery and then of his hush-money payments and mismanagement. The avenging angel took wing again. Swaggart passed word to denominational leaders of an impending Charlotte Observer report on the hush money and pressed for a cleanup. He declared the scandal to be a "cancer that needs to be excised from the body of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Now It's Jimmy's Turn | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...Nutcracker, and in my fifth Christmas season, my parent gave me a passport into this land--a ticket to New York's Metropolitan ballet company production of the classic. For five years I returned, savoring every step of the experience from the glint of the gilded chandeliers to the hush of a carpet against Mary-Janed feet...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Visions of Sugarplums | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

...Hush! Hush! Names aren't important, that's one thing life's taught me. Only reason you learn a name is so you can remember to forget it. Yes Jesus sir. I'll remember you, boy, but the hell if you expect me to remember your name...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Blood Brothers | 11/17/1987 | See Source »

...income from raising the price of library copy machines from five cents to 10. They forgot about the irksome two-dollar "processing" charge that every student must pay if they want a copy of their transcript. As the final tally of extra money began to take shape, a solemn hush fell over the Trustees. What could they spend it on? Suggestions began...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Money Changes Everything | 10/15/1987 | See Source »

...hated every second of it and it has ruined my life," she said. "And I took hush money, all right -- money to hush them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Not A Bimbo,' Hahn Says In Playboy | 9/24/1987 | See Source »

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