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...furthermore, the South is the home of the Great Oral Literary Tradition--another myth from days gone by many would like to believe in, a myth from the days when people told tales on the front porch while the cicadas sang and the Spanish moss languished dolefully on the eucalyptus trees...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Sabres, Gentlemen, Sabres | 2/24/1981 | See Source »

...subject only to boards led by relatives and retainers. To allay doubts, nondenominational ministries in 1979 created the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (E.C.F.A.) to fix fund-raising standards. Many evangelists, including Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell, have won its seal of approval; others, including Jim Bakker, Rex Humbard, Oral Roberts and Pat Robertson, have not. Bayly advises contributors to demand a financial statement even if a group has the E.C.F.A. seal: "If questions are dodged, assume it is a careless operation at best, fraudulent at worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: When Mammon Serves God | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...past he does meet claims that she, not Linda Lovelace, is the "original Deep Throat." And she has the lung capacity to prove it, extinguishing a cigarette in one drag for emphasis. On her coffeetable are photographs of past lovers all of whom she has apparently felled with her oral ferocity. Our hero realizes it's time to exit when he sees a team snapshop of the entire local soccer club...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Love Weekend Style | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

Three days before his oral argument, Cucinotta is in the kitchen of his suburban home, stirring spaghetti sauce and expounding on the U.S.'s adversary system of justice. "People like me are the champions of liberty," he says. "Think if I lose. Does it mean that the Government can willy-nilly threaten harsher sanctions if a defendant doesn't drop the attorney of her choice? Think of the Spanish Inquisition! Or the Tower of London! Not everybody in there was guilty. Or the Willingboro Ten!" His wife Santa gently corrects him: "It's the Wilmington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Sam's Hour of Glory?and Agony | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...next day Cucinotta returns to Washington to practice his oral argument before lawyers from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Firing the kind of probing questions that the Justices are sure to ask, the N.L.A.D.A. coaches blow holes in Cucinotta's platitudes. "Grand gestures about the adversary system," says one. "But I didn't hear your points. You were too cosmic." Cucinotta looks deflated. He has been awake since 2:30 a.m. thinking about his argument. "My head is spinning," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Sam's Hour of Glory?and Agony | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

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