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...glamour has rubbed off. "There's so much to worry about," says Sandy Gallin, Hollywood manager of top stars, who attended Williamson's lectures and then invited her to bless his star-studded birthday party for Geffen. "Put together the ecological breakdown, disease and the recession: we gotta pray to get out of this one." Actor Tony Perkins credits the course with quieting his mind: "It slows down your repetitive, competitive and comparative thinking processes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Teresa for the '90s? | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

...real estate, financial services, broadcasting, publishing and insurance. The church's strict morality (it forbids premarital sex, gambling and the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs) reinforces the hardworking nature of Utah's people. A Wall Street bond trader puts it succinctly: "All they do there is breed, pray and make money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The West Mixing Business And Faith | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

...nearly six minutes -- a minute and a half short of the maximum duration possible -- led many to fall to their knees. With Mars, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter suddenly bursting into view in the afternoon, what else could they do but give thanks to the gods, ancient and modern, and pray for the opportunity to view the double dawn again in their lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Double Dawn | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...whom, pray tell, is she talking to? There's no easy way to put this. It's God. Sunday Dinner, a new CBS series from TV trailblazer Norman Lear (All in the Family, Maude), bills itself as the first sitcom to deal explicitly with religious faith. Lear says the series, his first in seven years, reflects a turn toward spiritual values in his own life. It also marks TV's effort to jump on Hollywood's spirituality bandwagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God Comes to Dinner | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...early as September, Saddam threatened to blow up the wells if the allies tried to retake Kuwait, giving the Administration ample time to decide whether the damage such sabotage would wreak on the environment was an acceptable risk. Now the people of the gulf region can do little but pray that the most dire predictions do not come to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Blacker Every Day | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

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