Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from November 1992:
'INSTINCTIVE' METHOD IS BECOMING 'IN' THING OUTDOORS.(Travel)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: ED DENTRY Scripps Howard It's a fresh breeze, this "instinctive" movement that is growing among devotees of the outdoors. Nationally, thousands of archers are swearing off cams, pulleys, sight pins and overdraw bows in favor of traditional equipment - the ...
GOOD TIMES FOR ONCE- UNDERRATED BEATLE.(Showtime)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: ROBERT HILBURN Los Angeles Times These are good times again professionally for Paul McCartney, who is calling from a Sussex, England, recording studio to talk about the recent West Coast premiere of his "Liverpool Oratorio." One reason for his good spirits is ...
OGDEN'S A PLACE THAT'S WORTH DRESSING UP FOR.(Showtime)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: WILLIAM M. DOWD People complain the city is a 9-to-5 place, an after-dark ghost town unless there's action at the Knickerbocker Arena. Maybe so, but don't ignore it if you're interested in a good meal in nice surroundings that still entice most people to dress ...
WHAT'S NEW? INVENTORS OUT THERE, GET YOUR THINKING CAPS ON.(Travel)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: LOWELL BRANHAM Scripps Howard According to the old saying, if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. Build a mousetrap if you want to, but don't bet the farm on the world showing up. In addition to the difficulties that might be ...
WHEN DEER HUNTING, DON'T GO THROUGH MOTIONS UNNECESSARY MOVEMENTS SHOULD ALWAYS BE AVOIDED.(Travel)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: DICK NELSON Outdoors correspondent The distant shot of a rifle may signal the opening of New York's Southern Zone deer season on Monday, Nov. 16, but for the deer it will actually begin a good hour or so before. The slamming of car doors and snapping of twigs, along with ...
GILT WITHOUT GUILT.(Home)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: FRANCES INGRAHAM Staff writer Jeffrey Von Er and William Adair both have a way of turning everything they touch into gold. Both are master gilders who own their own businesses and conduct workshops and lectures on their craft. Von Er studied music ...
A STEP BACK IN TIME TO VILLAGE OF KINDERHOOK.(Home)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: FRANCES INGRAHAM Staff writer Surrounded by the towns of Stuyvesant to the west, Chatham to the east, Ghent to the south and the village of Valatie to the north, the village of Kinderhook is best known to many as the hometown of the country's eighth president, Martin Van ...
ALBANY COUNTY SARATOGA COUNTY SARATOGA COUNTY RENSSELAER COUNTY.(Home)
Nov 01, 1992 ... The following information was obtained by The Times Union from deed transfers recorded during recent months in the various counties listed below. ALBANY 45 Victoria Way, Hodorowski & DeSantis/ Whitehall Station Builders Inc., $136,000; to Victor J. and Carmela Zaccardo. 13 ...
BRUSHES SELDOM USED IN INTERIOR PAINTING.(Home)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: GENE AUSTIN Knight-Ridder Newspapers Q. I have a new house that needs interior painting, but it has been many years since I held a brush. There are new painting tools in the stores that I'm not familiar with. What tools should I use? Is there a good instruction book? ...
A SHORT LIST OF RESOURCES.(Home)
Nov 01, 1992 ... The art of gold leafing has become very popular over the past 10 years. Many of the specialists in this field have written books on the subject and created videos for those who would like to learn in their own home. In addition, they also lecture on the techniques of gold leafing, as well ...
NEW AND OLD METHODS FOR CRAFT OF WATER GILDING.(Home)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: FRANCES INGRAHAM Staff writer There is a new gold leaf technique that has simplified the traditional craft of water gilding, which produces a burnished leaf surface that is indistinguishable from that of the old masters. The Kolner System is a new ready-to-use ...
CRISIS GUIDE; AC COVER; PELLET HEATER.(Home)
Nov 01, 1992 ... If you're like most people, you're too unfamiliar with your home's components to handle crises as safely, effectively, and inexpensively as possible. The Home Emergency Handbook (Taylor Publishing Co. Nov. 1992, $14.95) is your survival guide to managing the various systems that make your ...
APPRAISAL SOUGHT OF OLD SEWING MACHINE.(Home)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: ANITA GOLD Chicago Tribune Q: Would an old sewing machine in non-working condition have any value? If so, how can I find out its worth? A: For old sewing machine appraisals, prices, parts, etc., write to Frank Smith, a sewing machine historian, in care of the ...
NORMANSKILL ON THE ROCKS.(Life & Leisure)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: PAUL GRONDAHL Staff writer O N THE NORMANSKILL - Because it was there and we had a thirst for adventure, we lighted out for the territory. We were canoeists - two Brits and two Yanks - curious about this flowing footnote of history fought over during the ...
LOOKING FOR CLUES TO CAUSES OF DEATH.(Life & Leisure)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: LINDA POLONSKY Staff writer F or forensic pathologist Barbara Wolf, a bone is not just a bone, but rather a clue to the sex of an unidentified body. And a hair is not hair but a clue to the race of a dead person. And even a tooth is not a tooth but a clue to the genetic ...
BIOLOGIST TO GIVE SPECIAL SUNYA LECTURE.(Life & Leisure)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Thomas E. Lovejoy, a tropical biologist and conservationist, will deliver the Paul C. Lemon Lecture at the State University at Albany on Thursday. Lovejoy's talk, "Biological Diversity: Promises and Problems," will begin at 8 p.m. in Page ...
WOMEN, JOCK ITCH, MEN AND CLEANING.(Life & Leisure)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: Dave Barry Today I want to talk to you husbands about housework, and the importance of helping your wives with ... HOLD IT RIGHT THERE, MEN. I see you trying to sneak out of this article. Get back in here and listen up: The International Labor ...
FEW ARE ABLE TO WRITE AS WELL AS MITCHELL.(Life & Leisure)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: Patrick Kurp "Up in the Old Hotel." By Joseph Mitchell. Pantheon Books. 718 pp. $27.50. I n a day when most newspapers are unreadable, and when even our best magazines are turning into transcripts of ill-written trivia, the publication of Joseph Mitchell's ...
THE BOOK BROWSER'S GUIDE NON-FICTION FICTION.(Life & Leisure)
Nov 01, 1992 ... "The Change: Women, Aging, and the Menopause."By Germaine Greer. Knopf. $24. Menopause, Greer believes, should be a time of stock-taking, of spiritual as well as physical change, when the middle-aged woman, rejecting the roles held out by patriarchal society, attains a mature serenity and ...
A HUMANIST CELEBRATES HEROES WHO CREATE.(Life & Leisure)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: Robert Moss "The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination." By Daniel J. Boorstin. Random House. 811 pp. $30 D aniel Boorstin, one of America's finest popular historians, has brought great narrative skill, wide-ranging erudition and a robust belief in ...
ABOUT PUBLISHING.(Life & Leisure)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Authors Stefanie Matterson and Sarah Schankman will sign copies of their latest books from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, at Haven't Got a Clue bookstore, 1823 Western Ave., Guilderland. Matterson's new book is "Murder on the Silk Road," published by Berkley (Chater/Diamond). ...
WHAT IS THIS? BACK TO THE '50S?(Showtime)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: THOMAS C. PALMER JR. Boston Globe The theme of an acclaimed advertising campaign for Rolling Stone magazine is "Perception and Reality." In the latest adaptation, Perception is a mushroom cloud - Reality a mushroom for a salad. Now 25 years old, rock 'n' ...
WHEN A PROTEST IS JUST TOO MUCH.(Showtime)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: TOM MOON Knight-Ridder Sinead O'Connor hasn't been very effective at communicating her ideas lately. In the current Rolling Stone, she says she admires the looters in the L.A. riots, explains that Mike Tyson was the real victim in the Desiree Washington rape ...
PORTRAIT ARTIST EXPLORES SURFACE OF POWER IN PAINT.(Showtime)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: MARTIN MOYNIHAN Staff writer They were the most powerful men in the world: the tyrants, the statesmen, the pre- eminent capitalists, the religious leaders, the Marxist power-players, the brooding strongmen of slow-changining conservative societies. But to ...
SIX-STRING SIGNING HEARST HELPS ASO FESTIVE FUND FUN.(Showtime)
Nov 01, 1992 ... What does U2 have in common with Reba McEntire? Van Halen with Neil Diamond? Garth Brooks with Jerry Garcia? Give up? Well, yes, they've all performed at Albany's Knickerbocker Arena, but that's only part of the answer, really. While they were backstage ...
OVER THE EDGE BY RADIO HITLER? DON'T TRIVIALIZE.(Showtime)
Nov 01, 1992 ... I fully expect people like D'Amato, Abrams, Bush, Quayle, Gore and Clinton to foul each other with slime and dirt. I guess the event that has pushed me over the edge is the latest arrival on our morning airwaves on Q104. This radio station has chosen to infect our air space with Howard ...
THE MONTANA LAND RUSH.(Travel)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: ROBERT CROSS Chicago Tribune The gravel road wobbles toward infinity across miles of high plains ranch land. Not much out there but grass, scattered boulders, some fences and distant peaks of the Absaroka Range, which provide just enough scale so you know you aren't ...
BON VOYAGE PLEASE HANG UP SHOW NO DOCUMENTS CAFE SOCIETY ART CANCELLATION COSTS.(Travel)
Nov 01, 1992 ... A passenger on the "red eye" from New York to Los Angeles recently complained that a loud attorney using the plane's public phone kept her from getting "shut eye." An executive who frequently saves his calls for long flights boasts that he ties up the lavatory for hours, using it as a ...
SET OF ODD DEFINITIONS FOR MODERN AIR TRAVEL.(Travel)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: PATRICK O'NEILL Newhouse News Service You know the feeling: You're minding your own business, flying along at 31,000 feet, 550 miles an hour, one of those airline scotches in your hand. You're drowsing your way through three hours of jetlag when unaccountably you find ...
TRAVEL NOTES HOLIDAY SCHOLARS ALPINE DEAL.(Travel)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Always dreamed of working at the Smithsonian? You can do so by volunteering for one of its research expeditions. Some programs are based here in Washington (archiving the "History of Flight," July 18-31, at the National Air and Space Museum, and cataloguing the works of George Tames for "A ...
WINTER DISCOUNTS AROUND FLORIDA.(Travel)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: Newsday Winter holiday packages and several pre-holiday deals are bookable now, including discount packages in Jupiter, on Key Largo and on Amelia Island. Named for the unmarried daughter of King George II, Amelia Island houses Florida's oldest saloons, some ...
TOURISM FOLLOWS CINEMA TO A BASEBALL-BASED FICTION IN IOWA.(Travel)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: THOMAS SWICK Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel You turn off the road into Dyersville, Iowa, following the signs to the "Field of Dreams." You are immersed in stalks. If it's the height of summer, you are almost dwarfed by them. They seem, especially toward dusk, to close in ...
TV PULLS UP STAKES, HEADS FOR NEW HORIZONS.(TV Magazine)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: JERRY BUCK Associated Press Location filming has taken on a new meaning this television season as an unprecedented number of prime-time series are being made outside of Hollywood. Nearly 20 shows, mostly one-hour dramas, are being filmed in Canada, Florida, ...
EDWARDS POPS IN WITH BUBBLE ON 'EXPOSURE'.(TV Magazine)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: Jay Bobbin Tribune Media Services A newcomer is relocating to Cicely, Alaska, and he's likely to burst some bubbles ... while living inside a literal bubble of his own. With this Monday's episode, the Emmy-winning CBS series "Northern Exposure" welcomes a new ...
REEVE STALKS MORTAL SINNERS.(TV Magazine)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: Tribune Media Services Christopher Reeve, whose screen image as Superman endures, has a more vulnerable role in "Mortal Sins," a suspense-drama premiering at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, on USA Network. Reeve dons a clerical collar to portray a contemporary ...
NEW SEASON FOR 'SQUARE ONE'.(TV Magazine)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times Although many left-brain folk adhere to the rule that "math is fun," right-brainers are inclined to disagree. PBS' "Square One TV" - which began its fifth season last week - is designed to make that adage true. "Our goal is to change kids' ...
'DREAM ON' FINDS FUNNY SIDE OF BENBEN.(TV Magazine)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: JOHN N. GOUDAS King Features HBO's hit series "Dream On" has given Brian Benben the opportunity to show just how good a comic actor he is. Before this cable series came along, Benben played, among other parts, a nice but inconsequential medic in the short-lived "Kay ...
'FINAL FURY' WRAPS UP BRODERICK MURDER TALE.(TV Magazine)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: JAY BOBBIN Tribune Media Services In television, you can't keep a fascinating character down ... even if she's been convicted for the murders of her ex- spouse and his second wife. Last March, "Family Ties" alumna Meredith Baxter earned some of the highest ...
SLOWLY, REGION IS REBOUNDING FROM RECESSION.(Business)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: ALAN D. ABBEY Business writer The Capital Region is recovering from a two-year recession and is likely to continue doing so - slowly - in coming months, according to a new measure designed to project the direction of the local economy. According to the newly ...
INDEX ATTEMPTS TO LOOK 6 TO 9 MONTHS AHEAD.(Business)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: ALAN D. ABBEY Business writer The Capital Region Index of Leading Economic Indicators, which is being unveiled this week by the Center for Economic Growth, is closely modeled on the federal government's widely followed index. The national index is designed to ...
THE WHYS AND WHEREFORES OF ENDORSING CANDIDATES.(Perspective)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: Harry Rosenfeld Editor For the past couple of weeks, and more intensively in recent days, I've been pressed by readers about the Times Union's presidential endorsement. It has been our custom to withhold presenting our position till the end of the campaign ....
ONE VOTE FOR A CANDIDATE WHO IS NOT RUNNING.(Perspective)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: George Will W ASHINGTON - When Monday night with slow retreating tread departs and Election Day dawns I shall cast a write-in vote for president. Here is why, and for whom. The primary point of voting is to influence the outcome of competition for power ....
BUSH FINDS HIMSELF DEFENDING CHARACTER.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: Timothy J. McNulty Chicago Tribune George Bush, mighty perturbed that his character and trust theme would be used against him, tried Saturday to label Bill Clinton as a desperate Democrat whose policies should frighten the nation. But as the President ...
NEGATIVE ADS A PLUS IN D'AMATO CAMPAIGN.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: TOM PRECIOUS Capitol bureau If there's any doubt that negative political ads work, consider Alfonse M. D'Amato. For years, critics have charged that D'Amato's behavior as a U.S. senator has been severely lacking in ethics. They pointed to actions ranging from ...
5 AMERICAN NUNS SLAIN; LIBERIAN REBELS DENY ROLE.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: MICHELLE FAUL Associated Press Five American nuns were shot to death behind rebel lines, Monrovia's archbishop said Saturday. A spokesman for the rebels denied they were responsible. Roman Catholic Archbishop Michael Francis refused to speculate about who ...
CLINTON SWINGS BACK AFTER BUSH ATTACKS.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: FAITH KEENAN Times Union Washington bureau Bill Clinton took the offensive Saturday against GOP attacks on his record and character, accusing President Bush of changing his portrayals of Clinton to pander to differing audiences. "He accuses me of being from a ...
PEROT HITS THE TRAIL, AND HITS BUSH HARD.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: KEVIN SACK New York Times Ross Perot kicked off the only extensive trip of his campaign Saturday with a blistering critique of President Bush. He charged him with ignoring the savings and loan crisis, permitting the rise of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega in Panama and ...
GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGNS IN 12 STATES.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: Associated Press The 12 gubernatorial races being decided Tuesday: NEW HAMPSHIRE: State Rep. Deborah Arnie Arnesen, a Democrat, is advocating the first- ever income tax - at 6 percent - to ease local property taxes. Her Republican opponent, Steven Merrill, has ...
VOTERS PONDER TERM LIMITS IN 14 STATES.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: Scripps Howard Voters across the nation will be making decisions Tuesday on a variety of national issues, including abortion, euthanasia and term limits. They'll be passing judgment on 239 propositions, 59 of them initiatives placed on state ballots by ...
EDUCATORS HOPE CAMPAIGN PROMISES HOLD UP.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: KAREN NELIS Staff writer When the presidential election's come and gone, Albany High School Principal David McGuire will still go about his daily business of trying to keep teens in school, quell fights and shepherd as many students as he can on to college. ...
ABRAMS APOLOGIZES TO FERRARO FOR ALLEGING SHE WAS LINKED TO MO B.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: New York Times Ending weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations with a sweeping apology and effusive praise, Robert Abrams said Saturday that he feels "genuine regret" for the tone of the recent Democratic primary battle against Geraldine A. Ferraro, and he conceded that ...
SHAKE-UP COMING TO CAPITOL HILL.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: JIM DRINKARD Associated Press The biggest earthquake in over half a century is coming to the House of Representatives on Tuesday, and incumbent lawmakers, once a secure elite, are on the defensive. "This is a vicious, powerful anti- incumbent mood that is ...
REPUBLICANS LOWER EXPECTATIONS.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: MERRILL HARTSON Associated Press Republicans who dreamed of a Senate takeover not so long ago have awakened to the reality that their best-case Election Day scenario would be to merely limit Democratic gains. After the victory in the Persian Gulf war last ...
EXPERTS DISAGREE ON HEALTH CARE REFORM.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: LINDA POLONSKY Staff writer The three presidential candidates have touted their prescriptions for health care reform in varying degrees of vagueness: President Bush's vouchers for poor people; Bill Clinton's publicly financed insurance pool for the poor and unemployed; ...
HEALTH PROPOSALS SEEK TO CUT COSTS.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: Chicago Tribune President Bush claims Bill Clinton's health-care reform plan is "a prescription for disaster." Clinton says Bush's plan is little more than "the same old placebos." Neither is true. So far, Ross Perot, who has less a plan than an ...
CLINTON HOLDS HIS LEAD.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: New York Times Bill Clinton and President Bush battled through a final weekend of campaigning, with the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll showing that their furious week-long crossfire left Clinton still holding a lead. The new poll, conducted Tuesday ...
MOST MALPRACTICE AWARDS JUSTIFIED, STUDY SAYS.(Main)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: ROBERT PEAR New York Times A new study of medical malpractice cases finds that, contrary to popular belief, unjustified payments are rare. The study, published Saturday in Annals of Internal Medicine, says that doctors' care was, in fact, substandard in most cases in ...
HEALTHY PROFITS SOME RESTAURANTS FIND THEIR NICHE SERVING VEGETARIANS, HEALTH- CONSCIOUS.(Business)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: CHRISTOPHER RINGWALD Business writer At 11 on a recent Tuesday morning, Marilyn Gewacke strides into Shades of Green, a vegetarian delicatessan on Albany's Lark Street, and downs a shot of murky green wheatgrass juice. "It clears the toxins out of the system," ...
TRACKING REGION'S ECONOMY.(Business)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: Dick Papiernik Executive Business Editor KeyCorp senior economist John Ortego had some particularly good insight in a comment that he made in helping to introduce the Center for Economic Growth's Index of Leading Economic Indicators. "We can't be myopic," he ...
STOCK PURCHASE CAN'T RATTLE ALBANY INTERNATIONAL.(Business)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: JAMES DENN Business writer Menands-based Albany International Corp. has expressed little concern over the $12 million stock purchase by the Bass brothers of Fort Worth, Texas. The Texas investors have a reputation in corporate America for being aggressive in ...
FIRM'S SHARE HAD A VERY BUSY DAY.(Business)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: JAMES DENN Business writer Wall Street interest in Albany International Corp. peaked last month when 1.3 million shares worth almost $15 million traded in one day. If Oct. 14 had been an average day for the company's listing on the New York Stock Exchange, ...
LITCHFIELD FINANCIAL O'CONNELL AND ARONOWITZ SARATOGA HOSPITAL DORFMAN-ROBBIE STANDARD COPY ERNST & YOUNG LANGER DION ASSOCIATES CRANE & MACKRELL TRUSTCO COMMUNICATION & DESIGN CENTER FOR THE DISABLED RPI LATHAM BOWL CORNELL UNIVERSITY URBACH KAHN AND WERLIN CENTURY 21 LAW, ORDER & JUSTICE CENTER.(Business)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Rhea Lewis of North Adams, Mass., has been promoted to vice president of credit at Litchfield Financial Corp., Williamstown, Mass. Lewis is responsible for Litchfield's consumer credit operations. She has been assistant vice president of credit since 1989. John F ....
IT'S AN HONOR NEW BUSINESS SEMINARS OFFICERS AND BOARDS GRAB BAG.(Business)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Virginia A. Kunkel, tax manager in the Albany office of Coopers & Lybrand, is the representative of the Northeast Regional Council on the National Committee for Regional Councils of the Institute of Management Accountants. She is the chairwoman of the subcommittee on education. In 1980, ...
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY.(Business)
Nov 01, 1992 ... The Upper Hudson-Champlain Valley Chapter of the Appraisal Institute will meet at 6 p.m. at the Century House, Route 9, Latham. Officers will be installed and "Interaction of Appraisers, Lenders and Realtors concerning Commercial and Residential Properties" will be discussed. For ...
WITH ELECTIONS COMES THE CRUNCH FOR WALL STREET ANALYSTS.(Business)
Nov 01, 1992 ... Byline: CHET CURRIER Associated Press With Election Day almost at hand, it's a pins-and- needles weekend for just about anybody who makes a living predicting the future. Consider the political and economic analysts of Wall Street, who have spent the past several weeks ...