Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spread that Likud had a better chance than Labor of forming a whining coalition. At 3:30 a.m., protected by tense security men, Begin threaded his way through an adulatory crowd of 2,000 to reach the party building. His supporters sang He Will Make Peace and When the Messiah Comes. Once at the lectern, Begin contemptuously denied that the campaign had been the dirtiest in Israel's history-a frequent and accurate charge by Peres-and proclaimed, "I will form the next government." Rhythmic applause was stilled by Begin's raised hand. As for Peres, Begin said...
...word of the change spread along Broadcasting Row in Manhattan and through the Hollywood production centers, condolences for Silverman were mingled with hosannahs for Tinker-as if John the Baptist had been beheaded and the Messiah proclaimed on the same day. Said George Schlatter, producer of Laugh-In and, for Silverman, Real People: "Freddie is imaginative, inventive, aggressive. He tried a lot of things, but unfortunately they didn't work. But then, TV is a monster. It eats up shows, performers and executives. Grant will be taking on a tremendous amount, but there's an enormous sense...
...Myung Moon, 61, the crypto-messiah of the Unification Church, has been keeping a low profile lately at his 25-acre estate overlooking the Hudson River north of New York City. But even in seclusion he is one of the most publicized and pilloried religious figures in the U.S. His church was slapped with a $1.6 million judgment last March after losing a libel case filed against the Daily Mail in Britain. New York's highest court just upheld a decision to deny academic accreditation to the Unification Church's theological seminary in Barrytown, N.Y. There are also...
Some of Begin's more extreme supporters, who have taken to referring to their leader as a "messiah," responded with an assortment of bullyboy tactics. They disrupted Peres rallies by drowning out his speeches, rolling a can of burning garbage into the crowd, throwing tomatoes at his car and trashing one Labor Party office and fire-bombing another...
With its space messiah hero, its understanding of ecology and its references to mind-expanding drugs, Dune found a large and appreciative audience during the mid-'60s. It was a book the young readers made, largely through word of mouth-"far out," "mind blowing," etc. Dune won both a Hugo and a Nebula, science fiction's most coveted annual awards. Sales eventually hit nearly 2 million copies. But Dune was only the beginning of a long-running drama, the first part of which is now being filmed in North Africa. In 1969 Herbert published Dune Messiah, which...