Word: inquisitor
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Swaggart played sexual inquisitor when moral accusations arose against Bakker and Swaggart's Louisiana rival Marvin Gorman, both ministers in Swaggart's Pentecostalist denomination, the Assemblies of God. When each was defrocked, he proclaimed good riddance...
...idea of Zurbaran, as the art historian Yves Bottineau points out in the catalog, was fixed more than a century ago by the Romantics. His paintings of cowled monks and saints in meditation seemed to connect with spectacular areas of Romantic fantasy -- the dungeon beneath the cloister, the Grand & Inquisitor's icy hand on the red-hot iron, and an obsession with trance, death and the link between faith and cruelty. This Zurbaran was more or less written into cultural existence by Theophile Gautier in 1840, on a visit to Seville...
...Shultz- Shevardnadze agreement to agree opens the way to a summit in the U. S. -- and maybe a reversal of the missile race. Still, the Pentagon takes a big step toward getting SDI moving. -- Bork' s shifting positions puzzle Senators more than ever, as his chief inquisitor, Biden, runs into a storm over plagiarism. -- A Pat Robertson hat trick stuns Bush and G. O. P. regulars...
...SAID that? 'Twasn't Robert Bork. It was, however, his Grand Inquisitor, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware. Every day heaps new embarrassments upon the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and his presidential campaign is in trouble. Gary Hart may have fudged his birth date and shortened his name. But though Biden has yet to be caught with his pants down, his shortcomings are now no less exposed than those of his former Senate colleague...
...gazed into the double mirrors of their slate-gray dressing rooms, and each saw the next President of the U.S. Minutes later, the politicians were seated in leather chairs for the first debate of the too much, too soon 1988 presidential season. So what if their host and chief inquisitor was Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., who took puckish delight in presenting the Democratic lineup on a special two-hour edition of his TV show, Firing Line? These were seven candidates in search of an audience -- and they were eager to prove they were ready for prime time...