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...little gift, a little kiss from somebody or something." He continued to care for his wife Margaret, whom he called "my rock, my center," as she battled breast cancer. And he worked ferociously, testing the limits of his anguish, to complete two teleplays: Karaoke, another musical drama; and Cold Lazarus, about a 20th century man whose head has been preserved for 400 years. Potter planned to write 10 pages a day. "I will -- and do -- meet that schedule every day," he told Bragg. "My only regret is to die four pages too soon." Sticking a cigarette between fingers crippled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Way to Live, the Way to Die: Dennis Potter (1935-1994) | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

...that matter, he probably never delivered the Sermon on the Mount. As for the question posed to Peter and the disciples, Jesus never asked it. And he never cured any diseases. As for the other miracles? No loaves and fishes, no water into wine, no raising of Lazarus. And certainly no resurrection. What happened to his body then? Most likely it was consumed by wild dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesus Christ, Plain and Simple | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...were paved with gold, and so they voluntarily crammed into the filthy hold of a ship for months at sea until it finally foundered off a Long Island beach, drowning six. In many ways they epitomized the "wretched refuse" of teeming foreign shores for whom, in Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, the Statue of Liberty lifts her lamp beside the Golden Door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Send Back Your Tired, Your Poor . . . | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...slow job growth and pinched budgets for social services, the country simply cannot accommodate a flood of the world's "homeless, tempest-tost." Bette Hammond, spokeswoman for a California group calling itself STOP IT -- for Stop the Out-of-Control Problems of Immigration Today -- suggests a rewrite of Lazarus: "If the Statue of Liberty could speak, she would say, 'Many of my people are jobless and homeless. My natural resources are fast disappearing from overcrowding and pollution, while my cities are full of crime. My domestic tranquillity is a thing of the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Send Back Your Tired, Your Poor . . . | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...thought he could handle the farewell to the White House switchboard operators. But, as he put it, "I overflowed." They had been for so long so diligent, so patient. John Kennedy had said, "They could raise Lazarus." They had hooked Bush up to the far world's leaders like no other President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Bush's Flight Into the Sunset | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

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