Word: paged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scores of admirers. Though criticized in recent years for losing his bite, he makes no apologies. "After more than 50 years," he wrote, "I remain an up-to-date, stick-in-the-mud optimist." Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger says Reston will not be replaced on the op-ed page. He will contribute some columns and concentrate on his memoirs, which he says will be a "long love letter to America...
Coming upon the prose of his young New Yorker colleague John Updike, Perelman is "overtaken by the characteristic nausea that attacks me when this youth performs on the printed page." Lawrence Durrell is "one of those Englishmen whose eye is especially made for spitting into." A publisher's catalog contains "only a few horrors like Tom Wolfe (of whom I suspect they're secretly ashamed...
...page report indicates that the wage gap between male and female workers is far more entrenched than generally perceived, despite women's growing participation in the labor force. Women still bring in only 68 cents to the $1 earned by men, an inequity that is closing only about a penny a year...
...rectitude that Falwell is administering at PTL has spilled over into his own Lynchburg ministry. Last month the organization published a rare 16-page report that included a succinct two-page financial summary. For the year ending June 1986, the document noted, ministry revenues totaled $84.1 million and expenses ran to $82.9 million. Total assets were valued at $91.5 million, while liabilities totted up to $56.5 million. However, Falwell would provide TIME with no audited, detailed financial statements for the ministry...
...into defrocking Bakker. The bayou spellbinder boasts the highest U.S. ratings for a televangelist, and his shows are broadcast by 3,200 stations in 145 countries. Swaggart has lately provided journalists with audited financial statements of his ministry for 1984 and 1985, and this month an unaudited two-page financial report went out to donors, with pie charts showing the ministry's income and outgo. Just how much of the Swaggart financial story is told in the reports is hard to determine...