Word: morton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Music. The first broadcast detonated with a finger-snapping zum-bum-ooo-ooo singing group called True Image, headed uptown with show tunes swung elegantly by soprano Eileen Farrell, the diva who stops being 70 when she opens her mouth, then went gloriously low-down with Jelly Roll Morton tunes by pianist Butch Thompson, the fine St. Paul barrelhouser from the P.H.C. days. Flying babies filled...
...long estrangement of Western science and religion. Even if the biosphere regulates the planet by feedback, Gaia still integrates living things and inanimate forces into a unified system, allowing both science and religion to look at life as something more than a mere accident. Says James Parks Morton, dean of New York City's St. John the Divine Episcopal Cathedral and a leading religious advocate of Gaia's: "The very nature of this hypothesis shows that we are now at a new moment when scientific and religious inquiry is directed to the same reality and discussed in a common language...
Obviously Szasz has never heard Pat Robertson explain how he "prayed" a hurricane away from South Florida. He has never spent time with members of the studio audience at the Morton Downey Jr. show. And Szasz probably was travelling abroad when Mike Tyson, after calling Robin Givens the "slime of the slime," announced he still loved...
Speaking at an Institute of Politics study group last night, the creator of the now-defunct "Morton Downey, Jr. Show" defended the controversial, confrontational program as a way to reach an audience that usually shows little interest in public affairs...
...still thinking in hundreds of thousands when I was thinking in millions. He never really understood the fungibility of debt and equity." Later, capital for some deals was assembled by indicted Drexel junk-bond financier Michael Milken, whom Ingersoll regards as a close friend. Says media analyst John Morton of Lynch Jones & Ryan in Washington: "From all we can learn, the company is healthy, although heavily leveraged. The small papers are cash cows. I admire him for taking this risky venture. But I'm from Missouri on this one -- he'll have to show...