Word: sin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this just P.H.C. at the Plaza? Sure. Maybe. No. There was, of course, a rambling dispatch from Lake Wobegon (Pastor Ingqvist, Keillor reported with approval, shocked his congregation at Thanksgiving by urging them to "sin boldly"). Tom Keith, P.H.C.'s sound-effects wizard, was on hand to provide, among other arcanities, the splash of George Washington's silver dollar falling short into the Rappahannock. The show's funniest sketch, a serial, produced a new star, actress Ivy Austin. She plays Gloria, big-city girl, . whose boyfriend (as she confesses endlessly to her hairdresser) wants her to give up everything...
...occasionally but ever so kindly, embarrassing. He will perform for 30 minutes or eight hours, depending on the contract. His basic sermon is an attack on "the Boys," as he calls Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, John Locke and other architects of efficiency. And the Boys' great sin? To have created an atmosphere that allows scientists to impose untested new technologies on society without considering their broader implications. Says Rifkin: "Faster is not necessarily better...
Mackey said that, as of last night the package calls for the sales tax to increasefrom 5 to 7 percent, the capital gains tax to risefrom 5 to 7.5 percent, a "sin" tax on alcohol andtobacco to go up and this year's gasoline tax tosuffer a six-cent increase, followed by a two-centincrease for the next two years...
...first two periods, Harvard passed crisply and stayed out of the "sin-bin" to sprint out to a 3-0 lead. Roy provided the defensive gems with a series of crucial stops...
...view will require great efforts to repair," San Diego Bishop Leo Maher wrote last week to Lucy Killea, 67, a Democrat running in a special election for California's state senate. He then applied a little used sanction that denies Communion to Catholics who "obstinately persist in manifest grave sin." Killea says she will abide by the decree but will not change her position. She is the first political candidate to receive this censure...