Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from April 1999:
BACK ON BASE HOME RUN CHASE HELPS HALL OF FAME IN COOPERSTOWN TO BE A FAN HIT AGAIN.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARK McGUIRE Staff writer COOPERSTOWN -- The point is made right away in the lobby, just past where you walk through the stadium-style turnstiles. All that needs to be said is done with a few jerseys, bats, balls and box scores. Subtle it's not. These ...
LITTLE JIMMY SCOTT GETS BRAVO TREATMENT.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: MICHAEL ECK Special to the Times Union Ray Charles. Lou Reed. Bruce Springsteen. Joe Pesci. David Lynch. Alec Baldwin. Lionel Hampton. Ruth Brown. These are just a few of the fans of Little Jimmy Scott -- ``the sweetest voice you never heard.'' To ...
SIGNING SONGS FOR THE DEAF NOW COMMON AT CONCERTS.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: JOHN LANG Scripps Howard News Service Why do deaf people go to rock concerts? For the songs. What can a deaf person really hear at a rock concert? ``Brown Sugar'' and ``I Can't Get No Satisfaction.'' One of the curiosities of ...
AN APRIL FOOL'S LOOK AT THE SPAC SPECIALS.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer Summer is just around the corner, which means that once again it's time to find out who the Saratoga Performing Arts Center will be booking for its annual summer pop/rock concert series. Last year, SPAC inundated us with package shows ...
RICHARDS STILL GIVES HIS SOUL FOR STONES.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: ROGER CATLIN The Hartford Courant It's that voice, that dance, those lips that people think of when they think of the Rolling Stones. But while Mick Jagger is probably rock 'n' roll's quintessential front man, the failure of his solo albums shows that the ...
`FOLLIES' A SHOW OF ITS TIME.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: MICHAEL KUCHWARA Associated Press NEW YORK -- ``Ziegfeld Follies of 1936'' is a relic from a time when tired businessmen went to the theater. Now they don't, of course, preferring instead to channel or Web surf. But in the less demanding days of 60 years ago, ...
LOUISVILLE FESTIVAL PUTS A SPIN ON ITSELF.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: RICHARD CHRISTIANSEN Chicago Tribune LOUISVILLE -- It was a novelty when it started, and now, in its 23rd annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, the Actors Theatre of Louisville is still trying to reinvent itself, to put a new spin on the plays to which it is ...
`10 THINGS' JUST DOESN'T REACH ITS POTENTIAL.(PREVIEW)(Movie review)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARLA MATZER Los Angeles Daily News LOS ANGELES -- The teen film ``10 Things I Hate About You'' has a great title and a terrific soundtrack, featuring a mix of new songs and 1980s ``oldies.'' Unfortunately, the title and the music are the two best things about this movie ...
HAWN, MARTIN PLAY `OUT-OF-TOWNERS' FOR LAUGHS.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARLA MATZER Los Angeles Daily News LOS ANGELES -- ``The Out-of-Towners'' was a slight comedy the first time around, when Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis co-starred in the 1970 film about a middle-age couple menaced by a series of misfortunes in New York City. ...
BACONS, MARNI NIXON ON CONSOLATI PAC STAGE.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer In addition to their regular summer theater schedule, the Barrington Stage Company has booked a couple of special events at the Consolati Performing Arts Center in Sheffield, Mass. Folk-rockers the Bacon Brothers -- featuring actor ...
PICASSO THE SCULPTOR ON DISPLAY.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: SARA SILVER Associated Press NEW YORK -- To get a sense of the ceramics of Pablo Picasso, imagine the curves of a vase turning into a bikini-clad woman. Or picture a plate with fish and fork baked on its surface, or a pitcher spouting the beak and plumes of a fantastic ...
COOPERSTOWN OFFERINGS JUST BEGIN WITH BASEBALL.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... COOPERSTOWN -- The quaint town is in fact a giant theme park, from its diners with baseball wallpaper you would have killed for as a kid to the shops that offer everything related to the sport. Still, it is not Disneyfied. Cooperstown can be enjoyed for what it is, a comfortable ...
HALL OF FAME A BIG HIT WITH MORE THAN SLUGGERS.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... The only thing bigger than the McGwire-Sosa home run battle was the scramble for artifacts from the quest. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum benefited greatly by the generosity of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa -- as it did from current and ex-players, fans and others ...
BANYAN SPEAKS ITS MIND BY GREG HAYMES STAFF WRITER.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Drummer Stephen Perkins is best known for his work with such pioneering alterna-rock bands as Jane's Addiction and Porno For Pyros, but for his latest band, Banyan, he decided to gather together some of his musician friends and just see what would happen in the studio. The ...
TENOR IAN BOSTRIDGE TO MAKE REGIONAL DEBUT BY RON EMERY SPECIAL TO THE TIMES UNION.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Ian Bostridge is not your average tenor. And he's on a big roll. In his mid-30s, he is lean and lanky, more like a long-distance runner than a sumo wrestler. He has the perfect build for heroes like Britten's Quint in ``The Turn of the Screw.'' He started singing ...
RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET PERFORMS FOR ITS SURVIVAL BY TRESCA WEINSTEIN SPECIAL TO THE TIMES UNION.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... For the Russian National Ballet, bringing traditional ballet to audiences around the world is not just an artistic mission. It's a means of survival. ``In Russia, the government pays for social programs only,'' said Sergei Radchenko, the company's artistic director. ``There is ...
EGG THE PERFECT VENUE FOR `A BUNNY'S TALE' BY MICHAEL ECK SPECIAL TO THE TIMES UNION.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Why do we give eggs on Easter? Where does the Easter bunny come from? Why do we all feel a little ill after munching down everything in our basket all at once? The folks at the Empire Center at The Egg set out to answer these pesky questions and settle other nagging April issues ...
SCREEN TEST.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Clint Eastwood is not only an actor in ``True Crime,'' he also directed the film. Here's a quiz on Eastwood as a director: 1. Which 1975 Eastwood film had Jack Cassidy as a gay spy? 2. Which actress began her long-term association with Eastwood in his ``The Outlaw - Josey Wales''? 3 ....
`MATRIX' IS A MOVIE BEST SEEN AND NOT HEARD BY GLENN WHIPP LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... LOS ANGELES -- The future, as seen in the brain-rattling and ridiculous new sci-fi film ``The Matrix,'' is one scary place. Life, unbeknownst to humans, has become a computer-generated illusion. Machines no longer serve humanity; they rule it. And Keanu Reeves is the Chosen One, the only ...
FAMILY MOVIE GUIDEBY STEVE PERSALL ST. PETERSBURG TIMES.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Recommended for family viewing DOUG'S FIRST MOVIE (G) -- No nudity, violence, profanity or off-color material in this animated film, based on the popular Nickelodeon series. The life of Doug Funnie and his colorfully diverse friends is full of positive lessons for children....
`PLEASANTVILLE' DVD COMES WITH EXTRAS BY DAVID BLOOM LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... LOS ANGELES -- It may pain the film purists, but sometimes digital really can be the way to go in watching some movies. Certainly, the folks over New Line Cinema would make a case for that regarding the DVD version of ``Pleasantville.'' The good-natured tale of '90s-era youths ...
RECORDS.(PREVIEW)(Sound recording review)
Apr 01, 1999 ... ROCK ``The Way We Are.'' Fleming & John. (Universal): Recorded in their living room, Fleming & John's ``The Way We Are'' is an erratic adventure in experimentation that yields wonderful cuts of exotic pop. The married team of Fleming McWilliams and John Mark Painter -- she ...
HIGH-ENERGY PRIEST MAKES BEING CATHOLIC HIP.(PREVIEW)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: CHUCK SHEPHERD Catholic officials in Brazil attribute the recent 250 percent increase in church attendance to the popularity of the Rev. Marcelo Rossi, 31, a singer and former aerobics instructor described by his young female parishioners as a ``hunk'' and whose ...
THE BUDGET BY THE NUMBERS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Number of times since 1995 Gov. Pataki's budgets have had surpluses: 4Number of times fron 1982 to 1994 Gov. Cuomo's budgets had deficits: 6Number of surpluses of at least $1.4 billion under Pataki: 3Number of total surpluses under Cuomo: 2Number of late budgets under Pataki: 5 (over 5 ...
RESEARCH ON HUMOR IS NO JOKE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: Knight Ridder WASHINGTON -- Amid all the marvelous things we humans can do with our big brains, none is quite so mysterious as our ability to enjoy a good joke. That's largely because few scientists have bothered to investigate how humor works. Now two ...
BUDGET LATE FOR 15 YEARS STRAIGHT.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: JAMES M. ODATO Capitol bureau In an inauspicious rite of spring, the new state fiscal year starts today with the governor and legislative leaders locked in a power struggle and the state without a budget. Like the past 14 April Fools' Days, the Legislature has ...
SERBS FORCE EXODUS OF ETHNIC ALBANIANS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: DANIEL WILLIAMS Washington Post SKOPJE, Macedonia -- The campaign by Yugoslav forces to expel ethnic Albanians from Kosovo has evolved into a systematic, almost conveyor belt process in Pristina, the capital city, where residents are being herded from their homes, ...
3 U.S. SOLDIERS MISSING.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: RICHARD PARKER, JOHN DONNELLY and BARBARA DEMICK Knight Ridder American troops in Macedonia searched with helicopters at first light today for three U.S. soldiers who had possibly been abducted by Serb troops or smugglers. They cried out in their last radio ...
PRESIDENT DOWNPLAYS IMPORT OF IMPEACHMENT.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Clinton said Wednesday he does not consider his impeachment ``some great badge of shame'' and that he believes historians will fairly explain the political motives behind Congress' action toward him. In an interview ...
THE FULL TRUTH ABOUT BLUE MOONS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press BOSTON -- Once in a blue moon, a widely accepted definition has to be rewritten. For half a century, the ``blue moon'' has been known as the second full moon in a month, like the one that appeared Wednesday. But that's wrong, and the editors ...
CAMPAIGN PRAISES A `COOL' BIBLE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Gospel singers, tap dancers and Pat Robertson introduced a ``cooler'' Bible Wednesday, launched with $7 million worth of ads. In what is being billed as ``the largest Bible-reading campaign in the history of America,'' the TV preacher hit the stage at Manhattan's Grand Central ...
REAGAN GRANDSON PLEADS NO CONTEST IN THEFTS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Former President Ronald Reagan's grandson, arrested for allegedly trying to break into a car, has pleaded no contest to one count of receiving stolen property. Cameron Reagan, 20, faces up to three years in state prison, prosecutor Lea Purwin D'Agostino said this week in Los Angeles. ...
AGENCY URGES CHANGING MILK PRICE SYSTEM.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Agriculture Department on Wednesday recommended the first overhaul of the federal milk pricing system since the Depression, consolidating dozens of pricing regions and changing the formulas by which dairy farmers are paid. ...
Y2K REQUIREMENTS MET BY MOST.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: EUN-KYUNG KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Nearly all federal agencies met Wednesday's deadline for protecting their most critical computer systems from potential Year 2000 computer problems, the government official in charge of the repairs said. John ...
PASSOVER RESPITE FOR ISRAEL.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: LAURIE COPANS Associated Press JERUSALEM -- Taking a respite from a heated election campaign and frequent bomb scares, Israeli families gathered at sunset Wednesday to share the ritual Passover meal commemorating the release of the ancient Israelites from bondage in ...
INSIDE AUDIT FINDS FAULT WITH FEDS' ACCOUNTING.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Associated Press WASHINGTON -- From $12.6 billion in improper Medicare payments to unaccounted-for bullets and bombs, the federal government still does a woeful job of keeping its financial books, according to an audit released Wednesday. ``Progress is ...
MINISTER GETS 5 YEARS FOR SWINDLING CHURCH MEMBERS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Associated Press LARGO, Fla. -- Sobbing and pleading for mercy, the Rev. Henry Lyons was sentenced to 5 years in prison Wednesday for swindling more than $4 million while president of one of the nation's largest and most influential black denominations. ...
CUSTOMS AGENCY ANSWERS ACCUSATIONS OF RACISM.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Associated Press ATLANTA -- A white customs supervisor at the Atlanta airport was replaced with a black one after the agency was accused of unfairly singling out black travelers for searches, an inspector said Wednesday. Dale O'Connor, the white supervisor ...
FEW DETAILS EMERGE ABOUT FARRAKHAN'S HOSPITALIZATION.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan continued to receive treatment Wednesday at Howard University Hospital, but neither Nation of Islam officials nor the hospital would say much about his condition. A statement sent to ...
VEGETARIANS' VICTORY LIMITED IN MCDONALD'S LIBEL RULING.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Associated Press LONDON -- Two vegetarian activists won a partial victory Wednesday in their struggle to overturn a court decision that they libeled McDonald's Corp. by accusing it of selling food that can cause heart disease. Three Court of Appeal judges ...
CELEBRATION MARKS CREATION OF CANADA'S NEWEST TERRITORY.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: DAVID CRARY Associated Press IQALUIT, Nunavut -- Dignitaries and foreign TV crews crowded into this small Baffin Island town Wednesday, and Inuit chefs prepared a huge feast featuring caribou, musk ox and raw seal to celebrate the creation of Nunavut, Canada's newest ...
LEWINSKY INQUIRY COST: MORE THAN $6M.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Independent counsel Kennth Starr spent more than $6 million on the Monica Lewinsky scandal, congressional auditors reported Wednesday. The latest figures, for the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 1998, bring the total cost of ...
FIRST LADY TERMS AFRICAN TRIP A SUCCESS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: SANDRA SOBIERAJ Associated Press MARRAKECH, Morocco -- Hillary Rodham Clinton proclaimed her tour of North Africa a welcome escape and a success for U.S.-Arab relations. ``I always like getting away from Washington,'' the First Lady said Wednesday as she and ...
LAWYER: SHOW CAUSED SHOOTING.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. -- Jenny Jones' talk show "did everything but pull the trigger'' in the shooting death of a guest who had gone on the program to reveal his secret gay crush, an attorney suing the show for $50 million told a jury Wednesday. The ...
HIGH COURT WEIGHS STATE WORKERS' RIGHTS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARK HELM Times Union Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- In a case that could affect state workers around the country, the Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a dispute between the state of Maine and probation officers. The high court's decision in the ...
MICROSOFT TRIAL TO RESUME IN MID-MAY.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The judge in the Microsoft antitrust case revealed a new courtroom schedule Wednesday and promised to resume the trial in mid-May. That will delay any verdict until late summer or early fall. The extended recess provides ...
SERB LEADER ARKAN INDICTED FOR WAR CRIMES IN BOSNIA.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A U.N. court revealed Wednesday it has secretly indicted a notorious Serb paramilitary leader for Bosnian war-era crimes and issued a veiled warning to the Yugoslav government not to deploy his feared ``Tiger'' forces in ...
YUGOSLAV EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON SHUT DOWN.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON -- The State Department closed the Yugoslav Embassy here, evicting diplomatic personnel, some still clad in night clothes, early Wednesday. Yugoslavia declared it had severed diplomatic relations March 25 with the United States ...
HACKERS USING VIRUSES, MESSAGES AGAINST NATO.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- Washington Post Yugoslav hackers are waging infowar against NATO's computer network, but the fighters appear to be poorly armed. Rogue computer users are sending a lot of messages and computer commands into NATO's computers, said Carlo Tomad, a NATO network ...
POPE SENDING TOP DIPLOMAT TO BELGRADE TO SEEK PEACE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: -- New York Times ROME -- Pope John Paul II, seeking to open a diplomatic channel to end the violence in Yugoslavia, is sending the Vatican's top diplomat to Belgrade. The Vatican diplomat, Monsignor Jean-Louis Tauran, plans to fly to Belgrade today and is ...
OPERATION ALLIED FORCE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Developments related to Kosovo on Wednesday: Three U.S. Army soldiers were missing in Macedonia near the Yugoslav border after possibly being abducted by members of the Serb military or police while on a reconnaissance mission. The Pentagon says allied forces for the first time have ...
CLINTON WARNED AIR WAR MIGHT FAIL.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: JOHN F. HARRIS Washington Post WASHINGTON -- The warnings were there for President Clinton. For weeks before the NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia, sources said, CIA Director George J. Tenet had been forecasting that Serb-led Yugoslav forces might respond by ...
STOP THE BUDGET GAMES.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... With the new state budget now past deadline, this is the time for Gov. Pataki, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, to start getting serious about priorities. Instead, the standoff has become mired in invective, and that could ...
NO, MR. MILOSEVIC.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... It's not a peace overture that President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia has offered. Instead it's the cynical posturing of an evil man. Stop the bombing, Mr. Milosevic is telling NATO, and he will withdraw some of his troops from the province. That's right, some troops will leave ....
TIME TO CHANGE THE WAY LOBBYISTS WORK IN STATE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: THERESA CASSIACK Legislative Associate, NYPIRG Albany ``Lobbying For Change'' makes a compelling case for overhauling New York state's rules that govern the conduct of lobbyists (Times Union editorial, March 18) Spending by special interests has skyrocketed over the past ...
AMERICAN LEGION OBJECTS TO `TIMES UNION' EDITORIAL.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: ERNEST W. GALL Commander Nathaniel Adams Blanchard Post American Legion Delmar - On behalf of American Legion Post No. 1040, I wish to convey the strongest possible objection to your lead editorial in the Times Union on March 1. Your criticism of a local ...
A LOOK AT WHAT'S MISSING IN FIREARMS SALES LEGISLATION.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARK D. GORTHY Glenmont You recently reported on the current move to regulate further the sales of firearms at gun shows and those for firearms advertised on the Internet (March 21 and March 23, respectively). Legislation has been introduced by U.S. Sens ....
SCHOOL PERSONNEL MUST BEHAVE APPROPRIATELY.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: K. MONTESANO Albany The letter from Larry Roy Fiber that appeared in the March 18 edition of the Times Union compels me to ask, ``What about a code of behavior for those school personnel who interact with my children and yours on a daily basis?'' I suggest stopping in to ...
CATHOLIC FACILITIES NEED NOT ABANDON PRINCIPLES.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: BETTY HIGGINS Albany Recently, the letters column included some opinions about hospital mergers involving Catholic hospitals. There is no reason for Catholic facilities to abandon their ethical principles regarding abortion services. Abortion is not a health ...
A DIRGE FOR THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: SUZANNE FIELDS NEW YORK -- It's spring, when a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. (You could ask a poet.) So does a young woman's. At least that's how it once was. But I'm in New York, and why not a night at the theater? There a new play on ...
CRISES BREWING IN MONTENEGRO.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: ZELJKO IVANOVIC PODGORICA, Montenegro -- On Sunday, a newspaper here published by the pro-Slobodan Milosevic Social People's Party ran a cartoon showing two men in traditional Montenegrin garb carrying umbrellas to protect themselves from the NATO airstrikes. One says to ...
KOSOVO DARKENS HISTORIC VIEW OF CLINTON.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: MARTIN SCHRAM WASHINGTON -- It was midday, March 24 when the bombs began to fall and our television screens turned a familiar blue-green. Soon, just as we expected, we saw the first bright bursts that had to be distant but direct hits. And so, we settled back ...
U.S. MUST GO BEYOND AIRSTRIKES.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON -- NATO's military objective was clear: to ``degrade'' Yugoslavia's ability to drive the ethnic Albanians out of its province of Kosovo. Some degradation. After a week of Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic ``cleans- krieg,'' a third of the ...
HOW TO DONATE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 1999 ... These groups are accepting contributions for the Kosovo refugees: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 711 Third Ave., 10th Floor New York, NY 10017 (212) 885-0832; (212) 885-0889 http://www.jtc.org American Red Cross ...
WOMAN ACCUSED OF ANIMAL CRUELTY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 1999 ... Byline: BRENDAN LYONS Staff writer ROOT -- A 75-year-old woman whose home was allegedly filled with dozens of pets living in deplorable conditions was arrested late Tuesday and charged with cruelty to animals, Montgomery County Sheriff's officials said. Numerous dogs ...