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Word: messiahs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know, that leathery little messiah...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: J.C., Phone Home | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

BORN. To Sun Myung Moon, 62, self-anointed messiah and founder of the Unification Church, which claims 3 million members around the world, and his wife, Korean-born Hak Ja Han, 40: a daughter, their 13th child; in Tarrytown, NY. Name: Jeung Jin Nim (March of Heart). Weight: 7 lbs. 8 oz. Moon, also born in Korea, was convicted in May of conspiracy to evade paying personal income tax and is awaiting sentencing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 5, 1982 | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...Motor City, the soul capital of America, the man of the hour, the man with the power, the hottest soul sensation since Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson; introducing the wonderful, the marvelous . . . Lily Tomlin!" Lily Tomlin? In her upcoming television special, Tomlin eerily metamorphoses into Purvis Hawkins, "the Messiah of Soul." Purvis is one of three new characters who will join Tomlin's company of creations. The other newcomers: Holly Oneness, a burned-out '60s folk singer, and Agnes Angst, a manic-depressive deeply into the "heavy mental" new wave sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 3, 1982 | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...left man a guilty serf." The Nazi execution of such inventors brought secret rejoicing to the rest of the world, according to this judgment, but since the Holocaust ended in the creation of Israel, Hitler also claims to be the benefactor of the Jews. "Perhaps I am the Messiah . . . whose infamous deeds were allowed by God in order to bring His people home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teaching the Grammar of Hell | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...have to violate Natural Law and leave the Tigers game early for this one but hearing the Messiah of the Palm Trees on his own stomping ground is worth it. If you haven't bought the new album yet, do so now because he will play almost all of it. The best part is when, the crowd joins on all of the old favorites Margaritaville." Cheeseburger in Paradise" and "Come Monday," and the cult Classic. "Why Don't We Get Drunk (And Screw)." Bullet at the Orpheum here two years ago was great, in his own backyard...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Living It Up in the Florida Sunshine | 3/20/1982 | See Source »

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