Word: reverend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reverend of the church where West was to speak said yesterday that the agency which books West's engagements told him the cancellation was the result of serious security concerns...
...Reverend William Robinson said that he was informed by Helen Chucko, a receptionist at the agency, that "a person with a rifle with a scope on it had drawn a bead on his wife in his home in Massachusetts and she screamed and hit the floor, and by the time the police got there, the individual had gone...
...recent landing in Mississippi, however, the road-warrior reverend found his path strewn with obstacles. Few states have embraced gambling so wholeheartedly. Since 1992, when the first riverboat casino floated down the Mississippi River to Tunica, the desperately poor county that Jesse Jackson once called "America's Ethiopia," 28 casinos have sprung up from the Tennessee border to the Gulf Coast. These garish palaces employ 27,300 people and last year put $189 million into state and local coffers. "Hey, look, Tom Grey, gaming is working here in Mississippi!" declares host Rip Daniels, welcoming Grey to his talk show...
...ANGELES: Most Academy Awards presenters ignored the Reverend Jesse Jackson's campaign to protest of the lack of black nominees. (Only one of 166 is black.) Jackson, head of the Rainbow Coalition, voiced his displeasure while leading a 75-person demonstration at KABC-TV studios in Los Angeles: "It's good that we have raised the consciousness of Hollywood. We're going to form a rainbow covenant and take it to the studio heads and to the stars. There's a lack of creativity and opportunity, leaving stories untold." The lone black nominee, Dianne Houston, was nominated in the best...
...ANGELES: Most Academy Awards presenters ignored the Reverend Jesse Jackson's campaign to protest of the lack of black nominees. (Only one of 166 is black.) Jackson, head of the Rainbow Coalition, voiced his displeasure while leading a 75-person demonstration at KABC-TV studios in Los Angeles: "It's good that we have raised the consciousness of Hollywood. We're going to form a rainbow covenant and take it to the studio heads and to the stars. There's a lack of creativity and opportunity, leaving stories untold." The lone black nominee, Dianne Houston, was nominated in the best...