Word: preacher
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Then came the turn of elegant Eddie Burke. Expanding his chest, he pledged to wage war on drug pushers and rapists if elected. A Baptist preacher exulted that Burke would create a "spiritual surge that will lift us into orbit for God." More down to earth, Committeeman Marty Tuchow explained: "Nostalgia is fine, but I have to be practical." Translation: Daley is buried, Byrne is mayor, and Byrne was for Burke. Twenty-four committeemen supported Burke...
Harrell, 57, is a white-haired former millionaire (mausoleums, real estate) with a radio preacher's voice and the affable manner of a small-town politician. He founded the league's progenitor, the Christian Conservative Churches of America, two decades ago, between a bout with lymph cancer (he won) and his 1960 campaign to be one of Illinois' U.S. Senators (he lost). Shortly after he built this ersatz Mount Vernon-as a tribute to his beloved George Washington and a home for his family of nine-federal agents battered down the gate with an armored personnel carrier...
...could. Several of the roles, however, just don't belong in this play. As the two witches, Bonnie Zimmering and Crystal Terry are lithe and successful dancers, but after two or three appearances and calls of "you'll be sorry," we are too. David Moore, who doubles as Preacher Haggler and Conjur Man, is unoriginal as, respectively, the stereotyped holy-roller and evil wizard. He is stock in his mannerisms and gestures, unseasoned on the stage. While Laura Rogerson and Ralph Zito shine in minor roles, John Smith as the hulking, rassling Marvin Hudgens is as shallow as one would...
...setting for the sermon on the Mall could hardly have been more dramatic. The preacher was Pope John Paul II, and his key topic was abortion. In the windswept Washington congregation of 175,000 sat Chief Justice Warren Burger, who concurred with the opinion that struck down all antiabortion laws. In the distance was the Capitol, where Congress had long been ensnarled in a nearly $500 billion budget impasse over abortion funding. Declared John Paul: "We will stand up every time that human life is threatened. When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, we will stand...
After conferring for an hour, the Pope and the President greeted 6,000 guests gathered on the South Lawn for the afternoon's second major reception. Here Carter contributed one of the most moving moments of his presidency. In his best preacher's tone, he said to John Paul: "As human beings each acting for justice in the present ? and striving together for a common future of peace and love ? let us not wait so long for ourselves and for you to meet again. Welcome to our country, our new friend." Echoing the President, the crowd burst into...