Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from August 1993:
WOMEN TEAM UP FOR LPGA BROADCAST COVERAGE.(TELEVISION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: MATT MEACHEM Tribune Media Services Perhaps an all-female broadcast crew for a Ladies Professional GolfAssociation (LPGA) event shouldn't be that much of surprise when you consider the television veteran Larry Cirillo is the producer. After all it was Cirillo ...
CRIME ROLE PUTS GOOD SPIN ON CORTESE CAREER.(TELEVISION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: KATE O'HARE Tribune Media Services "I have done a lot of good guys," says Joe Cortese. "I can do the bad guy. I can do Germans with an accent. I can create that illusion. Maybe I've been mixing it up to the point where nobody knows who I am. "Some actors ...
'MARILYN & BOBBY': LOVE LEGEND IN SAND OF TIME.(TELEVISION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: KATE O'HARE Tribune Media Services "Nobody's hands are clean in this story," says Melody Anderson. "That's important. Nobody's hands are clean. We can't judge people. You have to be careful what you criticize, because you're probably up to something worse." ...
HILARY'S REAL...REAL BAD, SAYS KARYN PARSONS.(TELEVISION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: KATE O'HARE Tribune Media Services "Hilary's fun because she's bad," says Karyn Parsons of the character she plays on NBC's "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." "She's everything you're not supposed to be, everything your mother's told you not to do or to be. I get to be rude ...
HEAD SOUTH TO RED'S FOR GENEROUS SEAFOOD.(SHOWTIME)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: WILLIAM M. DOWD Heading south from Albany on Route 9W, the city bustle is quickly forgotten as the first rises of the Catskills greet you down along the Greene County line. It was here in the midst of World War II that the late Red Mays decided to ...
DINNER DATE.(SHOWTIME)
Aug 01, 1993 ... RED'S SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Route 9W West Coxsackie 12051 Reservations: 731-8151, for parties of five or more. For recorded menu specials, call 731-8153. Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday, and 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays. Closed Mondays. Credit Cards:Major ...
LANDA/HUGHES, 2ND-STORY BLUES.(SHOWTIME)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: VINCENT JACKSON Staff writer After a day at the flat track or an evening at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, you decide to take a stroll through downtown before calling it a summer night. As you pass by a club at 17 Maple Ave., you hear music from the ...
VAN GOGH! DEGAS! (WELL, ALMOST).(SHOWTIME)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: RAY MARK RINALDI Staff writer For reaction to the influx of fake art heading to the region, we turn to a place with the real stuff, the hallowed Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. We ask Curator of Paintings Steve Kern what he thinks of reproduced Renoir, Van ...
ARTS TALK.(SHOWTIME)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Opera back from the brink The Lake George Opera Festival has had a tough couple of years. Just a few months ago no one was sure if the old Adirondacks standby would even remain in business. The operation is there this year, but barely, forgoing actual operas in favor of a ...
PAUL WINTER: 25 YEARS OF JAZZ WITH A SMILE.(SHOWTIME)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARC SHULGOLD Scripps Howard Paul Winter and music began a lifelong love affair innocently enough. As the soprano sax player recalled, he played a little jazz at Northwestern University and got lucky enough to win an intercollegiate competition. Soon ...
IN MECHANICVILLE, SQUARE MILE MAKES A CITY.(AT HOME)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: FRANCES INGRAHAM Staff writer This community is ranked as the smallest city in the state: It measures one mile square. Originally, as a village, Mechanicville extended farther to the north into the town of Stillwater. When it was incorporated as a city in ...
MORTGAGES MULTIPLY IN TYPE.(AT HOME)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOHN GALLAGHER Knight-Ridder There was a time Vic and Janice Warren were the perfect customers for a conventional mortgage. Solidly middle class and raising a family, they expected to own their home for many years. With their daughter married and the couple ...
PERSISTENT PRODUCER CATCHES UP TO 'THE FUGITIVE'.(SHOWTIME)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: ELAINE DUTKA Los Angeles Times In 1987, "Platoon" walked off with four Oscars and proved to be a windfall for the little-known producer Arnold Kopelson. An emigre from the world of law and finance, he had finally, it seemed, arrived. The impact, however, ...
BON VOYAGE.(TRAVEL)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Refundable Canada If you cross the border into Canada, the Frontier Duty Free Association wants to remind you that visitors who spend more than $100 on qualified items are eligible for refunds of the 7 percent Canadian Goods and Service Tax, or GST, and possibly the ...
HANGING FASCINATES BERLIN STUDENT OF DEATH.(TRAVEL)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: CARL SCHOETTLER Baltimore Sun Dieter Paprotka, Berlin's connoisseur of capital punishment, prefers hanging. "Hanging is the most interesting," Paprotka says. The electric chair, the gas chamber and lethal injection are cold and mechanical ....
REAL ESTATE ROUNDUP.(AT HOME)
Aug 01, 1993 ... The following information was obtained by The Times Union from deed transfers recorded during recent months in the various counties listed below. ALBANY COUNTY KNOX Parcel on Highway 251, Bradley Krupa, $53,000; to Randy J. and Mary P. Moller. 13.989 acres on ...
WHY THROW UP IN OUTER SPACE WHEN YOU CAN HURL IN THE PASTURE?(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: Dave Barry In today's edition of The Science Nook we're going to discuss some exciting developments in the field of putting portholes in cows. But first we have a News Update concerning Space Station Freedom. As you may recall, Space Station Freedom was one ...
TRAVEL NOTES.(TRAVEL)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Hurry up and wait It seems things aren't quite on track in Paris. France's latest fast train line, opened in May, is up to speed, zooming passengers north from Paris to Lille in just an hour. Trouble is, it takes them longer than that to buy a ticket. Getting much of the ...
IF YOU GO.(TRAVEL)
Aug 01, 1993 ... About a dozen companies offer Inside Passage cruises for a total of nearly 335 cruise ship visits each season -- May through September. Most cruises must be booked through a travel agent. Unless otherwise noted, prices are for weeklong trips, per person (based on double occupancy), plus ...
A LIVING SILENCE.(TRAVEL)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: JOHN BALZAR Los Angeles Times We begin with farewell. Joe Firman's blue Cessna 207 growls and lurches down a gravel bar, then lifts and floats upward, heading south. We watch and listen, standing amid piles of gear, in a frosty wind blowing down off the ...
SAILING ALASKA'S EDGE.(TRAVEL)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: LINDA Du VAL Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph Looking at the face of the glacier -- rooted 25 miles deep into theFairweather Range -- we realize that in six full days of exploring the Alaska panhandle, we'll only get a glimpse of the vast wilderness that is Alaska. ...
USE CAUTION WHEN CONSIDERING 3-TO 5-YEAR ADJUSTABLE MORTAGES.(AT HOME)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: Gary L. Klott Be careful about getting into three-and five-year adjustable mortgages. They may not be much cheaper than fixed-rate loans. The interest rate on adjustable-rate mortgages is most commonly adjusted once a year. But some lenders offer adjustable ...
AS WORKERS' NEEDS SHIFT, FIRMS ADAPT SCHEDULES.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: MICHAEL LOPEZ Staff writer Big business more frequently is allowing employees to work part time to care for their families, but women -- who traditionally make these adjustments -- still find supervisors and colleagues resistent to such arrangements, says a new survey ...
COMPANIES ADJUSTING TO LEAVE POLICY.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: MICHAEL LOPEZ Staff writer The 12 weeks of unpaid leave guaranteed by the Family and Medical Leave Act -- effective Thursday -- is already nearly standard among the Capital Region's largest employers, who are tinkering with existing policies to conform. ...
DOUBLE BUBBLE TROUBLE THOSE NEW 'CONCENTRATED' DETERGENTS ARE GREAT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, RIGHT? THEY SAVE PACKAGING AND FUEL, RIGHT? AND THEY'RE EASY TO USE, RIGHT? WELL...(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer The idea of concentrating products such as liquid laundry detergent to save resources is so simple one has to wonder why it hasn't been done before. Concentrated products require less packaging. That means less cardboard, plastic ...
THE BOOK BROWSERS' GUIDE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... NON-FICTION "Flower Secrets Revealed." By Carly Wall. A.R.E. Press. $14.95. Illustrated paperback. After being taken on a whirl through history, starting with the cave dweller's use of medieval plants in wreaths and pallets, the world of flowers, as seen by the ...
ARE ORIGINAL THOUGHTS DEAD? MCGINNISS' BOOK JUST THE LATEST NOVEL TO MASQUERADE AS TRUTH.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: MICHIKO KAKUTANI What's upsetting about "The Last Brother," by Joe McGinniss, isn't just that the author invented thoughts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy might have had, or that in the opening section of the book McGinniss seems to have appropriated significant portions of ...
MILK CONTAINER MAKERS FACE OFF OVER VITAMINS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer Paper or plastic? That question is moving from the supermarket checkout aisle to the dairy case as a nearly decadelong debate over the effect of light on milk and other food products is once again emerging from the shadows. ...
DOES ENCON'S 3 RS HELP GREEN PACKAGES?(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer The Saratoga Springs-based Stewart's Shops convenience store chain has won high praise from environmentalists for its use of refillable soda and milk containers. The glass and heavy-duty plastic containers that Stewart's reuses are ...
FAMILY, MEDICAL LEAVE PROVISIONS SPELLED OUT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... The Family and Medical Leave Act, which takes effect Thursday : Provides up to 12 weeks per year of unpaid, job-protected leave -- with health insurance coverage -- for the birth or adoption of a child, the employee's serious illness, or illness of the employee's child, parent ...
EDWARDS PLAYS MUSIC BIZ AS VERY ARTICULATE ROCKER.(SHOWTIME)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: BETTY WEBB Cox You might eventually find a more articulate rocker than Mike Edwards, head honcho of Jesus Jones, but don't hold your breath. Edwards even uses words such as "gravitas" when describing his hoped-for personna on some songs. And ...
WALLPAPER BOOKS NOT FOR READING.(AT HOME)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: ROSEMARY SADEZ FRIEDMANN Scripps Howard News Service With all the wallpaper books out there, the task of searching for just the right paper might seem overwhelming. But Kristin Pratt of "Decorating Retailer" magazine has taken the time to do some research ...
GIFT KEEPS ON GIVING.(PERSPECTIVE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... I was pleased to read Mark McGuire's "Donors get a slice of immortality," July 6. The article makes readers more aware of their options for charitable giving and some specific ways they can create an enduring legacy in our community. In addition to the alternatives described ...
NEW YORK HAS A SYSTEM TO PROTECT PATIENTS FROM BAD DOCTORS.(PERSPECTIVE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... I write to respond to your editorial "Don't hide bad professionals." I was an attorney in the state Education Department from 1962 to 1990. During all of that time it was the policy of the Board of Regents that the details of pending disciplinary cases against professional licensees were ...
THE POLITICS OF NASTINESS VINCENT FOSTER'S DEATH POSES, ONCE AGAIN, A GOOD, HARD QUESTION.(PERSPECTIVE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: E.J. DIONNE Last weekend, my colleague David Von Drehle reported the reflections of the Arkansas friends of Vincent Foster Jr., President Clinton's deputy counsel who apparently committed suicide. It was a moving article that kept coming back to the search for what it ...
PIPE DOWN!(PERSPECTIVE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... The City of Schenectady is fixing to begin a war on noise -- and don't most know that such a war needs to be fought, and not just in Schenectady? With the proliferation of portable stereo systems, boom boxes, gargantuan amplifiers affixed to automobilies and the household and ...
THE U.S. HAS ONE FLAG.(PERSPECTIVE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Country singer Johnny Cash is perhaps as famous for a spoken lyric as for any of his raspy-throated tunes about lost loves and cheating spouses. It's his monologue about the old tattered flag -- the one that was was in the heat of every major battle from Delaware to Desert Storm. It's ...
TV VIOLENCE SUBSTANTIVE ISSUE OR CONVENIENT SCAPEGOAT? YOU BE THE JUDGE.(SHOWTIME)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: STEVE BORNFELD Television/radio writer Click: Machine-gun fire rips through flesh like a white-hot knife through butter. People howl. Bodies crumble. Blood spurts. Click: An armed man steps up to a defenseless woman in a cemetery, ...
REGIONAL GOVERNMENT: THE SPIN FROM PORTLAND.(PERSPECTIVE)(Company overview)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: RENA CUSMA Some of our experiences may be helpful as you look at restructuring your government relationships to meet the challenges of the next century. METRO, the Metropolitan Service District established in Portland, Ore., in 1978, is the only directly ...
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, THE STOOGES WERE RIGHT.(PERSPECTIVE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: DAVID HOLAHAM The Three Stooges are now history. Since 1975, there had been just one survivor of all those zany celluloid schticks: The slapping, the pokes in the eye, the fists to the noggin that my generation grew up on. Look, we liked Elvis, but he wasn't on TV ...
A DIFFERENT GAME.(PERSPECTIVE)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: Dan Lynch It was about 30 years ago, and the New York Mets were throwing a surprise party in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds for their manager, Casey Stengel. The party included a cake. Stengel, who was turning 75 or thereabouts, noticed that one of his ...
REBIKE MAY LOOK FUNNY, BUT IT RIDES LIKE A DREAM.(SPORTS)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: LARRY REA - Memphis Commercial Appeal The first time a person sees a ReBike, it's hard to avoid a giggle. These low-to-the-ground, recumbent-style bikes look funny. But the comfort they offer is nothing to laugh at. "I'm partial, but it's the most ...
OUT-CASTS GROUPS SAY OUTDOORS INDUSTRIES SHOULD WOO WOMEN.(SPORTS)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: MARY GREEN - Scripps Howard Women, according to various outdoors lobbying groups, are the future of outdoor sports. Why? Money. "Women control 90 percent of the cash in the household," said Carol Wiseman, director of the National Organization of ...
NYTEL AWARDED ENERGY REBATE FROM NIAGARA MOHAWK.(BUSINESS)
Aug 01, 1993 ... New York Telephone Co. Thursday received a $202,275 rebate from Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. for installing energy-saving lighting in two Capital Region buildings. The rebate is part of a program run by the power company to get large commercial power users to install more ...
EXPECTATIONS BUMP INTO CHANGED ECONOMY.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: JAMES DENN - Staff writer The decline in real wages has taken a toll on the family. Further, broad changes in the economy have made it more difficult today than 20 years ago to earn a decent living. The result? It is much more expensive today to ...
REP. PAUL HENRY, 51; GOP STANDOUT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: Associated Press U.S. Rep. Paul Henry, a rising Republican star who was elected to a fifth term weeks after doctors removed a malignant tumor from his brain, died Saturday. He was 51. Henry was diagnosed with brain cancer in October after complaining of ...
JEANNETTE B. BORDEN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Jeannette Baillargeon Borden, 70, of the Eden Park Nursing Home, formerly of Cohoes, died Friday in the nursing home. She was born in Cohoes and was a former member of St. Marie's Church there. She was a graduate of St. Marie's School in Cohoes. Survivors include ...
G.E. SPOONNOGGLE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Gertrude E. Spoonnoggle, 81, of Saratoga Avenue died Thursday in Maplewood Manor in Ballston Spa after a long illness. She was born in Maltaville and educated in Schaghticoke Public Schools. She was a nurse's aide at the Northside Adult Home in Waterford, retiring in 1977. ...
TRUMAN N. HOFFMAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Truman Nelson Hoffman, 62, of Sunflower Lane died Friday in Albany Medical Center Hospital after being stricken at the Albany Municipal Golf Course. He was born in Lock Haven, Pa. He lived in Albany for several years. He was supervisor for audit printing at the state ...
DOROTHY METZ, 77.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Dorothy Metz, 77, of Hackett Boulevard died Saturday at home after a short illness. She was born in New York City and lived in Rochester for 25 years and in Albany for 30 years. She was a member of Congregation Beth Emeth and a past treasurer of the Albany Chapter of ...
OLIVE I. BARRY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Olive I. Barry of Parkwood Street, McKownville, died Thursday in St. Peter's Hospital in Albany after a brief illness. She was born in Rose Valley and lived in Clyde, Monroe County, before moving Guilderland in 1948. Mrs. Barry was a homemaker and a former member of ...
FATHER-SON TEAM FINDS A SECOND HOME.(SPORTS)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: Buzz Gray Like tribal tennis nomads, they first showed up in May, driving seven hours from Toronto in an old Dodge Omni which already has clicked off 190,000 miles. Even as a father-and-son unit, Ted and Adam Baranowski appeared particularly linked, uncommonly focused. ...
C.H. THOMPSON SR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Clayton H. Thompson Sr., 84, of Burrello Court, Route 75, died Thursday at home after a long illness. He was born in Watertown and graduated from Watertown High School. He was a budget analyst for the University of Rochester before retiring. Mr. Thompson was one of ...
ROSE BACUCCI, 77.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Rose Crispino Bacucci, 77, of St. Sophie Apartments died Friday in St. Peter's Hospital. She was born and educated in Kingston. She moved to Albany in 1946. She was a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, John Bacucci; a daughter, Sylvia Prusinski of Albany; ...
HELEN SALISBURY, 88.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Helen Ebert Salisbury, 88, of Salisbury Road died Friday in St. Peter's Hospice after a brief illness. She was born in Guilderland and attended a one-room school house on Willow Street in the town. Mrs. Salisbury was a homemaker and a 50-year member of the New ...
RUTH BROUKER, 80.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Ruth Girvan Brouker, 80, of Farley Drive died Thursday at home after a brief illness. She was born in Rensselaer and worked as a secretary for the former State Bank of Albany for 30 years. She retired 18 years ago. Mrs. Brouker was the widow of Harry S. Brouker Sr. ...
FORREST MANCE JR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Forrest "Fred" Mance Jr., 78, of North Main Street, formerly of Albany, died Wednesday in the Veterans Affairs Medical Center Hospital after a long illness. He was born in Albany and lived in Fliegel for many years. He was a truck driver for Safeway Truck Lines for more than ...
LOUISE MORITZ, 98.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Louise Goesch Moritz, 98, formerly of Kent Street, died Thursday in the University Heights Nursing Home after a long illness. She was born in Athens and was a homemaker. She worked as a seamstress in the 1930s through 1950s for the former Atlantic Sewing Factory. ...
MATTHEW MORELLI, 8.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... STILLWATER -- Matthew Eric Morelli, 8, of County Road 70 died Friday in Albany Medical Center Hospital as a result of injuries sustained July 25 when he was struck by a truck while riding his bicycle near his home. He was born in Niskayuna and lived in Stillwater most of his ...
GRACE PREUSSER, 71.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Grace Rowe Preusser, 71, of Maida Lane and Zephyrhills, Fla., died Friday in Ellis Hospital in Schenectady after being stricken at home. She was born in Albany and a graduate of the former Coeymans High School. She was a machine operator for 28 years at Tobin Meat Packing Co., ...
DONALD SMITH, 88.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Donald L. Smith, 88, of Ravena died Wednesday in Child's Nursing Home in Albany. He was born in Schenectady and moved to Ravena in 1960. Mr. Smith retired from the New York Telephone Co., where he worked for 40 years. He was a member and former president of the ...
FLORENCE WALDRON.(CAPITAL REGION)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Florence Johnson Waldron, 77, of Rock City Road, formerly of Colonie, died Thursday at home after a long illness. She was born in Niskayuna. She was a homemaker and member of the Ballston Spa Senior Citizens. Survivors include her husband, Robert Waldron; a ...
LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE A JIM DANDY TRAVERS PREP.(SPORTS)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: TIM WILKIN - Staff writer SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Invitations for the Travers are out. Today, some of them will be picked up and, perhaps, some will be sent back. They run the Jim Dandy at Saratoga Race Course this afternoon. For the last 30 years it has served ...
JOBS IN THE CAPITAL REGION: A TALE OF VAST CHANGES.(MAIN)
Aug 01, 1993 ... Byline: JAMES DENN - Business writer In 1975, a family with a single wage earner, say a manufacturing worker, could buy a three-bedroom house in Colonie for about $29,900, or about 31 months' worth of salary. Today, a manufacturing worker, even though his or her ...
THIS WEEK'S TIME OUT.(SPORTS)
Aug 01, 1993 ... This feature details different trips into the great outdoors, and will appear on this page each Sunday until the fall. If you have any comments or suggestions for this series, please write us at This Week's Time Out, Times Union Sports Department, P.O. Box 15000, Albany, N.Y. 12212. Or, ...