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Gorman, former pastor of a 5,000-member First Assembly of God Church in New Orleans and TV preacher on 57 stations, led off the roundelay of forced sexual confessions. In July 1986, his fellow minister Swaggart summoned him to a makeshift tribunal at Swaggart's First Assembly headquarters in Baton Rouge, La., where Gorman was confronted with charges of adultery and pressured into resigning his ministry immediately. Gorman closed the circle two years later when he unveiled surveillance photos of Swaggart emerging from a motel room with a prostitute. That led in short order to Swaggart's ouster...
...that he emanated an "evil spirit," which entered a woman and spoke in Gorman's voice as it was exorcised by Assembly of God preacher Tom Miller...
...first big flowering, the '40s and '50s. Which does not imply that other artists in the New York School lacked probity; only that Reinhardt made such a fierce point of showing where he thought art could go wrong, become soft, betray its essence. He was a fine aphoristic preacher, irresistibly quotable, and a deadly parodist. He listed the technical skills of the modern American artist as "brushworking, panhandling, backscratching, palette-knifing, waxing, buncombing, texturing, wheedling, tooling, sponging . . . subliming, shpritzing, soft-soaping...
Despite his refusal to rule out a presidential bid in 1992, JESSE JACKSON is quietly making plans that could hinder a third run for the Democratic nomination. TV sources say the preacher-politician is negotiating a deal with Cable News Network to host a current-affairs program. The show would probably get a half-hour Saturday-morning slot. His previous effort, a syndicated talk show, was canceled in May because of poor ratings, but Jackson apparently believes he might do better on the all-news network. Hosting the show, though, would make it almost impossible for him to conduct...
When Nixon's attention turns to his real enemies -- Jews, Democrats, liberals, intellectuals, anyone who came from a loftier social background than he did -- the President erupts in spurts of venom about clowns in government, conspiratorial leakers, preacher types, gum-chewing reporters, Kennedys. "A lot of our own people come in here, and they start sucking around the Georgetown set. All of a sudden, they're just as bad as the others . . . They're disgusting." He speculates that the antiwar protests are part of a Jewish plot. "Aren't the Chicago Seven all Jews? ((Rennie)) Davis...