Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Operation Rescue do not know where they are going, but they are prepared for long drives. Organizers line up the carloads to be given maps as they peel off out of the lot. Taut nerves make the leaders snappish as they scurry about, pausing in little clots of prayer, then bustling to their tasks. Their language is semimilitary, befitting such constant readers of the Book of Exodus. These are churchgoing, middle-class couples, uneasy in the shabby clothes they have put on for prison service later in the day. Not the demonstrators of civil rights or antiwar protests, these...
...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...
...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...
...expected, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat swiftly denounced Shamir's proposals, calling them "inappropriate, as usual," and many Palestinians in the occupied territories followed suit. In Jerusalem on Friday, the first day of the month-long Ramadan observance, hundreds of Palestinians pouring out of midday prayer services at the al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount launched an angry demonstration, throwing rocks and chanting anti-Israeli and anti- American slogans...
...commercial first played on March 2, showing Madonna travelling back to her eighth birthday. The problem for Pepsi was that a day later the "new" Madonna aired her "Like a Prayer" video which portrays a young girl struggling with feelings of guilt and sexuality. The video also contains religious imagery that some Christians found offensive...