Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MADONNA: LIKE A PRAYER (Sire). The title track is creating all the fuss, but this is a fine pop album, with a couple of the best tracks ('Til Death Do Us Part and Promise to Try) sounding as intimate as a confessional. Memorable from start to finish, and danceable throughout...
Participants finished the service by singing commemorative songs and saying a prayer in memory of the dead, Savett said...
...charge of today's operation, brushes past him to form a little circle of his friends and pray. Praying out loud is the first response to any setback for this group. (Terry often interjects, in the middle of conversation in a normal tone, a groaned "Jesus help us.") The prayer does not deliver a plan, but at least it slows down response. By then police cars are clearing away the roadblocks. After all, the cops' assignment today is to keep people from obstructing access. The pro-choice maneuver, though it fails, has bought time for its side; the pro-lifers...
...PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving (Morrow; $19.95). In this inventive, indignant novel, a boisterous cast and a spirited story line propel a sawed- off Christly caricature through two decades of U.S. foreign-policy debacles...
Events in Iran are often fueled by forces that are not immediately apparent. Thus it was difficult to know quite what to make of the verbal missile fired last week by parliament Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani during a prayer session at Tehran University. Several "big American spies," he announced, had been arrested and would be punished for plotting to overthrow Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...