Word: bishop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 19-20, The Women of Brewster Place: a preacher propositions a woman after his sermon. The next scene features them in a sex act. On an NBC program titled UNSUB, April 7: Bishop Grace murders two teenage girls in his congregation. On NBC's Quantum Leap, April 7: a scene in which the series' hero is preparing for sex with his live-in lover has Amazing Grace playing in the background. On NBC, In the Heat of the Night, Jan. 31: Rev. Haskell, who dies, had been having an adulterous affair with one of his parishioners...
...China disrupted efforts to draft the Basic Law, which will serve as Hong Kong's constitution after 1997. Talks between Chinese and Hong Kong negotiators have been under way since 1985. But two key Hong Kong representatives -- Louis Cha, publisher of the Ming Pao newspaper group, and Anglican Bishop Peter Kwong -- quit the 55- member drafting committee after Beijing declared martial...
...Touvier case has raised embarrassing questions. Police followed his trail through several Catholic monasteries. Saint-Francois is run by right- wing followers of Monsignor Marcel Lefebvre, the schismatic bishop excommunicated last year. Asked Richard Wertenschlag, Grand Rabbi of Lyons: "How could ecclesiastical institutions give cover to one who committed crimes against humanity...
BEETHOVEN: CELLO SONATAS 3 & 5 (EMI). The late, preternaturally gifted cellist Jacqueline Du Pre exudes sensitivity and breathtaking virtuosity as she teams up with pianist Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich on this digital reissue...
Most damaging of all is a doubling of "back door" losses since the 1960s, especially as younger adults bred in Establishment churches drift into irreligion. "Most Episcopalians who have left have not gone over to the conservative churches," says Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning. "They have gone nowhere...