Word: motel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aboard Air Force Two. The Vice President's plane is less a floating palace than a flying Motel 6 -- frayed brown seats, rickety mustard- yellow baggage racks. Bush and staff munch on popcorn and the Vice President's favorite snack food: fried pork rinds with Tabasco sauce. On the ritzier press plane, reporters dine on whitefish, smoked salmon and crabmeat...
After Swaggart's sermonic confession, a prostitute named Debra Murphree turned up in West Palm Beach, Fla., and claimed to be the woman in the photos. Interviewed by WVUE-TV of New Orleans, she said she had had a yearlong series of motel meetings with Swaggart, during which no intercourse had occurred. She added that she customarily posed naked for him, and on one occasion, he asked her to wear a dress but no underwear and drive around with him. The world- renowned man of God was "kind of perverted to talk about the kinds of things they talked about...
...Washington Post picked up stories that Swaggart would often cruise the New Orleans motel strip in his Lincoln Town Car, sometimes rigged out in such disguises as hats, sunglasses and headbands. At motels, sources said, he always registered in the woman's name. Some media accounts were vague; most were unsubstantiated...
Gorman has been suing Swaggart and Assemblies officials for $25 million over the defrocking. He hired a private detective, who apparently shadowed Swaggart as he lurked on the motel strip. Photographs were taken of Swaggart and the woman outside the Travel Inn. (The air had been let out of the evangelist's tires to delay his departure.) Gorman then confronted his nemesis. Some sort of negotiations ensued between the two men, but apparently they broke down, and the damning photos landed in the Springfield offices of the Assemblies...
...preacher' s most spectacular performance -- a public confession following a private admission of meeting prostitutes along a motel strip near New Orleans. So it' s scoundrel time again for Pray TV, a raucous realm that was stumbling toward recovery after ptl and a disastrous 1987. At stake: a $150 million- a- year empire and Evangelicalism' s tattered public image...