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While Mikhail Gorbachev blasted "communist fundamentalists" from his Kremlin pulpit last week, one of his main targets, Alexei Sergeyev, sat silently in the audience of Central Committee members, nursing a few grievances of his own. As the founder of the hard-line Communist Initiative movement, Sergeyev concluded that what Gorbachev said about "breaking out of the circle of dogmatic concepts" confirmed his worst suspicions. "In the past, Gorbachev has always disguised his true views," said Sergeyev. "This time, he was almost honest. His speech left me in no doubt that he is not a communist. If you were to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Hard Times for the Hard-Liners | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

Every Saturday morning at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in West Hollywood, Marianne Williamson steps to the pulpit before a packed house. But she is no ordinary minister: the church has been rented and the message is decidedly New Age nondenominational. Impeccably groomed and clad in designer clothes, the slender brunet launches into a sermon that mixes Christian exhortations, meditative slogans and psychotherapeutic advice: "Align your mind with God and watch miracles happen." Then she saunters down the nave to "share" with the audience. "Anytime you think someone owes you something, it's a limit on your happiness," she counsels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Teresa for the '90s? | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

What is needed in this country is a leader -- a President of the U.S. -- who speaks of all citizens without equivocation. It doesn't cost a dime; you've got the pulpit -- just get out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ethical Guru: BARBARA JORDAN | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...from daffy Disco Dolly into a more substantial, surrealistic Poly Dali incarnation. For a long time, she seemed like a rebelette without a cause vamping for the world's attention. Now she has it. Not content to continue spinning out mere dance-floor fodder, she has used her bully pulpit to preach scantily clad homilies on bigotry, abortion, civic duty, power, love, death, safe sex, grief and the importance of families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madonna In Bloom: MADONNA | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...think it's great. He's certainly had a long and distinguished career serving Harvard and he deserves one last pulpit," said Class Marshall Brian R. Trelstad...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: Bok to be Commencement Speaker | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

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