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...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 »

...devotion to the Great Artist, not to mention her purported Nazi sympathies-was for a time the Winifred Wagner of the New York art world. The Museum of Non-Objective Painting, complete with piped-in organ music, was devoted to the baroness's idea that Kandinsky was the messiah, sent to save all culture, with Paul Klee as his attendant apostle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Preparing for Abstraction | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...that analysis of Gaddafi is sound, the desert denizen who sees himself as the slighted messiah of a scorned nation may have launched a frightful new era in modern-day terrorism. To be sure, the 20th century does not lack for examples of political murder. But the threat of assassination of a head of government may now have been elevated by Gaddafi, in an era of worldwide terrorism, to a conscious act of statecraft by a sovereign nation. "For years after World War II, heads of state were considered off-limits to assassination teams," observes Paul Wilkinson, professor of international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for Hit Teams:Libya | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

Saxon, 58, is an unlikely mathematical messiah. He still resembles what he once was: a professional soldier. A graduate of West Point, he is a World War II veteran, a decorated Korean War combat pilot and a former engineering instructor at the U.S. Air Force Academy. After retiring in 1970, Saxon began teaching math and algebra at Oscar Rose Junior College in Midwest City, a suburb of Oklahoma City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Angle on Algebra | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...program against "heresy and atheism." As for Khomeini's claim to the Supreme Theologian's Mandate, Halabi insists it is not binding. Khomeini may have great virtue and theological scholarship, he says, but "I have received instructions from the absent Imam [the Shi'ite messiah] himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Mullahs Divided | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

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