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...more. He resembled "a flower in a coal heap," in the words of his biographer, and suffered cruelly in the small, tough town where he was born. But Wright gave as good as he got. One poem about the rumored demise of a whorehouse in Wheeling depicts a throng of women swinging their purses as they pour into the river at dusk. What the heck is going on? the poet innocently wonders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: A Town and the Bard Who Left It | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

First, as always, came the pomp and the outpourings of adulation. A military band blared and a cheering throng waved yellow-and-white papal flags at Miami International Airport last week as Pope John Paul II emerged from a jumbo jet into the blazing Florida sun. Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy waited as the Pope, eight years after his last visit, stepped again onto U.S. soil to begin his long-awaited eleven-day, 17,000-mile pastoral journey.* Said John Paul on his arrival: "I come as a pilgrim, a pilgrim in the cause of justice and peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Come as a Pilgrim | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...faithful arrived on the shores of the Atlantic. At Sagaponack Beach on Long Island, N.Y., they spread their blankets, then sat down, crossed their legs, closed their eyes, lifted palms upward and waited intently for the sunrise. With the first blush of light across the horizon, the throng unleashed a high-velocity "oommm" that rivaled a swarm of yellow jackets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A New Age Dawning | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...thank whatever gods there be that my family and I are an integral part of the throng of Americans pictured on your cover honoring the Constitution's Bicentennial ((SPECIAL ISSUE, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Historic Charter | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...speech that started it all was delivered to an emotional throng of Charismatics and Pentecostals whom Roberts is trying to unite into some sort of loose coalition. Defending himself on money questions in the wake of the PTL scandal, Roberts said he had raised more than $1 billion during his career and "kept less than one-tenth of 1%" for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Raising Eyebrows and the Dead | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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