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...liar if I said I wasn't nervous," he said. "But I also am confident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Space Shuttle Discovery Takes Off Today | 9/29/1988 | See Source »

...began to look as if there might not be any novel at all. Powers published another story collection in 1975, Look How the Fish Live, but after that came only silence. Now, at 71, he has produced Wheat That Springeth Green, and, praise be, he has made a liar of himself. There is a priest in the book. Wheat, in fact, is devoted entirely to Father Joe Hackett, who in the late 1960s arrives as the rector of the comfortable suburban parish of SS. Francis and Clare. And once again, the central dilemma is that however much a priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Separation Of Church and Dreck WHEAT THAT SPRINGETH GREEN | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

Jesus has brief onscreen sex with his first wife Mary Magdalene and later commits adultery. Judas is a hero, the strongest and best of the apostles. Paul is a hypocrite and liar. Jesus is so dazed that, even on the eve of his Crucifixion, he is still not quite sure whether to preach love or murder Romans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Holy Furor | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...tinkering with a minor historical figure, as Gore Vidal did with Aaron Burr, but with the founder of their faith. "This is an intentional attack on Christianity," concludes Joseph Reilly, national director of Morality in Media. The group is particularly incensed by Jesus' anguished comment, "I am a liar, I am a hypocrite. I am afraid of everything . . . Lucifer is inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Holy Furor | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

Torres recalls the very sight of Tyson at 13: "Very short, very shy and very wide." D'Amato pegged him for a champion straight off, though the resident welterweight Kevin Rooney was dubious. "He looked like a big liar to me; he looked old." Hearing that he was destined to be champ, Tyson shrugged laconically. But before long, everyone in the stable began to see him out of Cus's one good eye. "If he keeps listening," Rooney thought, "he's got a chance." The fighters' gym has a fascination of its own: the timeless loft, the faded posters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing's Allure | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

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