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...changes his role from preacher of Christianmorals to promoter of the respectability of gays,"Mansfield says...
PROWLING THE STAGE LIKE A FEral street preacher, George Carlin has launched into one of his carefully calculated rants, poised somewhere between comedy and a call to arms. Bad news, he insists, is what he most likes to watch on TV; it means the system is breaking down. "I want to see a paint factory blowing up.I want to see an oil refinery explode. I want to see a tornado hit a church on Sunday. I want to know there's some guy running through the K Mart with an automatic weapon firing at the clerks. I want...
...NRBQ played at Lupo's a lot and they're associated with him. A lot of the actors are Trinity Square people from Providence. Stanley, the guitar player, is someone I knew for a long time. I wrote the part for him. The Black preacher was a guy in Providence who did just what he does in the movie...
Moreover, in his capacity as minister, Reverend Gomes has served the Harambee community in numerous ways. He has been an outstanding preacher and spiritual counselor, exemplary mentor, and role model for aspiring ministers and other students...
...choice was more complicated, and the results in a way more interesting. Former California Governor Jerry Brown, usually enveloped in an aura of indignation, did not profit from the prevailing anger. A different contrarian principle worked in favor of Paul Tsongas. The former Massachusetts Senator, survivor of lymphoma, preacher of no-nonsense, progrowth, probusiness ("You can't have employment and despise employers -- no goose, no golden eggs"), came away with 33% of the vote. His importance was symbolic as well as substantive: Tsongas possesses a power of glamourlessness, a nerdy, basset-hound anti-image that gives hope to some voters...