Word: sin
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...found themselves in the dustup, grappling for gospel truths to soothe confused, outraged flocks. On the Sunday morning following the arrests, the Rev. Denzil Green, the 69-year-old white pastor of Flint's Galileeon Baptist Church, declared to his predominantly black congregation, "The name of the game is sin, not skin...
...frontier myth, in one of its aspects, denied original sin. Sin is not original but cumulative. The origins are pure. Nature is sinless, before an overlay of mounting compromises and concessions induces a weary cynicism. Even Mr. Smith's fallen idol, the worldly Senator Paine (Claude Rains), was unsullied before he breathed in the big-city corruptions of Washington...
...force of his music. In the hours after his disappearance, fans from around the world--Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and even Singapore--inundated his record label with worried messages. In New York City's Greenwich Village, Buckley's home turf, scores of fans brought candles and flowers to Cafe Sin-e, the former coffeehouse where he first drew crowds with his spiraling voice and captivating intensity. "His music was so beautiful it made the hair on your neck stand on end," said a weeping fan. "He was special," said Columbia Records president Don Ienner. "We saw the future in Jeff...
...land. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the survey as "false by an order of magnitude, to put it mildly." Everyone in the Clinton Administration, including Albright, knows that Netanyahu's settlement policy is a fundamental reason for the breakdown of peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Abington's sin was to say publicly what they all confirm privately...
Still, Reubens is a special case, and not just because his violation of public mores involved the worst sin of them all: masturbation. In addition, Reubens never mounted any effort to defend himself, to apologize for his mistake ion the manner of the estimable Hugh Grant. In fact, he hasn't taken any sort of public stand since he was arrested for indecent exposure in 1991. So, as much as I'd like to believe there's some conspiracy of television executives at work, there's no real way to know that his exile is not self-imposed...