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Shortly thereafter Swaggart alerted Assemblies of God leaders to the impending scandal. Then, on March 19, Bakker beat the Observer to the punch. He confessed to the newspaper his adultery and the payment of "blackmail," quit PTL, and to the surprise of his followers handed control over to Jerry Falwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evangelism: TV's Unholy Row | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...sports a top-flight scorer in Dave Saunders, who recorded 10 goals and 25 assists for 35 points during the regular season. The brothers Lappin, Pete (21-12--33) and Tim (8-21--9), also provide Saint scoring punch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale, St. Lawrence Battle in Other Semi | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

...once the bromide may be true: you don't learn songs like Stay with Me, you have to have lived them. This woman has a right to sing the blues. To hear her story is to find autobiography in every Midler song, and tragedy as the punch line. All that love, drive and desperation in her voice had to come from somewhere. Most of it came from Honolulu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Midler Steals Hollywood | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...ROOM, hot-shot novelist Don DeLillo turns insanity into a laughing matter. "Nothing original in that," you say, "it's been done hundreds of times since Hamlet." But DeLillo, the paragon of paranoid lit, has packed his literary loonybin with so much intelligence and dramatic punch that madness starts to look like an appealing state of affairs...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Curtain Call: | 2/27/1987 | See Source »

...KLUX Klan took a knockout punch from an Alabama jury last week. An all-white Alabama jury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racism Takes a Blow | 2/21/1987 | See Source »

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