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...fastest 100s in history and then ending Michael Johnson's 21-race winning streak in the 200. There are also the three sprinters who will be trying to keep the U.S. from losing its first Olympic 100 on its own soil: Dennis Mitchell, Mike Marsh and Jon Drummond, a preacher's son who still sings with the gospel group Kirk Franklin and the Family...
...least in his case, is misplaced. This is as subtle and perceptive a portrait as any black writer could have produced of one of the most complex public figures of our times. Jackson has always combined the moral clarity of a prophet with the grubby opportunism of a jackleg preacher. The tendency among the millions who have watched his career unfold over the past 30 years has been to seize upon one of those facets of his character to the exclusion of the other. Frady, who has previously delved into the lives of George Wallace and Billy Graham, shows that...
...writer-director team of Anita Loos and John Emerson, who established his film character: half Tom Sawyer, half Teddy Roosevelt. They also devised the set pieces that made his name--as in the climax to the delightful The Matrimaniac (1916): his fiance is locked in a hotel room; the preacher is in jail; the police have chased Doug up a telephone pole; so he tightrope-walks on the telephone wires, persuades a lineman to plug in a conference call to the jail and the hotel, and voila, they're married...
...Marian Wright Edelman, the youngest daughter of a Baptist preacher, from adversity springs strength. From defeat comes inspiration. If her courage ever fails her, she is not about to say so. Life as she lives it day by day is a series of battles fought along starkly moral lines. That is why Edelman--who helped register black voters in the segregated South, who stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and who gave Robert Kennedy a personal tour to see the malnourished children in the Mississippi Delta...
...invitation" is the soul of a revival meeting. All that precedes it is aimed at the moment when the preacher asks the audience to "come forward" and accept Jesus. It is the event's punch line, its consummation: if a preacher is a salesman, it is the clinching handshake; if he is a fisherman, it is the taking in of the net. Billy Graham's nets were always filled to breaking. In 1983 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Franklin Graham's net was empty...