The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from January 1989:
A BRUSH WITH FLAVOR SAGE ADVICE
Jan 01, 1989; ...The recipe for focaccia with sage is adapted from Italian Pizzas and Hearth Breads, by Elizabeth Romer. Copyright (c) 1987 by Elizabeth Romer. Used by permission of Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. In small doses, fresh sage adds a deep, mellow taste to ...
FROM 'ROOTS,' A HOLIDAY 'GIFT'
Jan 01, 1989; ... Of few television series can it be said that the very titleconveys it all."Roots," which aired on eight consecutive nights in January,1977, was not only one of the most remarkable achievements intelevision history, it also bequeathed to the language a powerfulword and concept: ...
BOY, 11, CHARGED IN FATAL MAINE FIRE
Jan 01, 1989; ... AUGUSTA, Maine - An 11-year-old boy charged in connectionwith a fatal New Year's Eve fire will be prosecuted as a juvenile,not an adult, state Attorney General James E. Tierney saidyesterday. Scott James, who was charged with felony murderfollowing the apartment house blaze in ...
POP MUSIC BOUNCED BACK, TO GO ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE
Jan 01, 1989; ... The '80s began ominously in pop music. John Lennon was gunneddown by a madman, spreading fear among many performers. Securitywas tightened at concerts. Bodyguards became as important as agentsor managers. And Don McLean's line, "The day the music died,"suddenly had a new and frightful ...
KONG ROARS BACK
Jan 01, 1989; ... Last chance to catch the King today at the Brattle Theatre inCambridge. Kong, that is. Not the 1976 remake. Not the 1986 remakeof the remake. We're talking about the original 1933 Merian C.Cooper-Ernest B. Schoedsack "King Kong," in a print newly struck inblack and white by the color-minded ...
THEATER: THE LIGHTS OF BROADWAY SHINE ELSEWHERE NOW
Jan 01, 1989; ... Is it possible that 10 years have come and gone without a majorchange in the American theater? The shifting away from Broadwaystarted effectively in the 1960s, continued through the last decadeand has resulted in the entrenchment of regional -- or as somepartisans prefer, resident -- ...
CLASSICAL: A DIVERSITY OF POSSIBILITY
Jan 01, 1989; ... The '80s, like every other decade in the history of music, was atime of slow change and underlying continuities, of sharp losses,and important new things.Composition lost one of its great senior masters, RogerSessions. But several composers of the middle generation came ...
ARCHITECTURE: TRENDS AND MOVEMENTS CAME AND WENT
Jan 01, 1989; ... The 1980s haven't been the decade of anything in particular inarchitecture, unless maybe the Decade of Divergences. A lot ofdifferent trends and movements have emerged, flourished, changed,and then either disappeared or, more often, merged with othertrends and movements. Through it all, ...
THE MOVIES TURNED INTO TELEVISION
Jan 01, 1989; ... As the '80s draw to a close and the '90s dawn, movies will bemore ubiquitous than ever. But will they be as central to our livesas they once were? Probably not. From the 1920s to the 1960s,movies stocked our collective unconscious, fed us our archetypes,became interchangeable with our ...
TV: CABLE CUT INTO NETWORKS' MONOPOLY
Jan 01, 1989; ... The metamorphosis of "Hill Street Blues" into "thirtysomething"is the story of network television in the '80s. It's the story ofhow a show that happened to attract baby boomers because of itsintelligence and irreverence led to a programming trend aimeddirectly at that same demographic group ...
BOSTON'S ARTS ENJOYED TREMENDOUS GROWTH
Jan 01, 1989; ... Boston's cultural landscape exploded into bloom in the 1980s.Every statistical measure of arts activity -- number of workingartists, number of arts groups, size of budgets, amounts of publicfunding, box-office tallies of total admissions, financial impacton the entire economy -- showed ...
THE FUTURE APPEARS BLINDINGLY BRIGHT
Jan 01, 1989; ... In 1977, Andre Blay, a Detroit-based businessman and VCR owner,decided he wanted to use his new electronic toy for something morethan recording programs from television. He approached all themajor movie companies about making certain feature films availablein the home-video format. Except ...
THE MUSIC STOPPED TO TAKE A LOOK BACK
Jan 01, 1989; ... In the 1980s, for the first time in its existence, jazz hasfailed to move forward. It was, perhaps, inevitable.Jazz developed at a dizzying pace. In less than a century, itwent from a simple folk art to atonalism and beyond. In half thattime, it went from being the music of New ...
INTERNATIONAL TREND SPAWNS EXCITEMENT
Jan 01, 1989; ... The 1980s saw - and is still seeing -- a new internationalism indance. In the '70s, the United States was as big and domineering apower in dance as it was in fast food. You wouldn't have gottenmuch argument over George Balanchine's position as the greatestballet choreographer of the ...
AN ERA WHEN CASH SUPERCEDED CANVAS
Jan 01, 1989; ... Money.That factor, beyond all others, defined painting and sculptureof the 1980s. The frenzied bidding, not only for blue chips such asthe Impressionist masters but for American artists of the 1950s and1960s, reflected a society in which the consumption of investmentart has ...
POP INDUSTRY: CDS, MTV AND MORE
Jan 01, 1989; ... The pop music industry has changed markedly during the 1980s:That much is clear. Just how it has changed is a far more complexissue. There are a number of contradictions and paradoxes, ofwinners and losers.From the consumer viewpoint, the "technology of choice" --music industry ...
IN '88, THE STATE'S ECONOMY RETURNED TO EARTH
Jan 01, 1989; ... In the economic world, 1988 may be remembered as the yearthe rest of the nation stopped being envious of Massachusetts.After a decade in which Massachusetts soared and the countrystruggled, the momentum clearly started to shift last year. InMassachusetts the basically sound ...
NOTHING WRONG WITH 'JUNK BONDS' BUT THEY INVOLVE RISKS
Jan 01, 1989; ...Beatson Wallace will answer investors' questions in the Thursday and Sunday Business Section. Send letters, including name, address and telephone number, to: Beatson Wallace, The Boston Globe, Boston, Mass. 02107. (A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS ...
SHORT-TERM SACRIFICES AND LONG-TERM GAINS
Jan 01, 1989; ... Headlines in the newspapers read, "Many students fail quiz onbasic economics." And indeed, a report prepared by the JointCouncil on Economic Education showed that when a multiple choicetest was administered to 8,000 high school students last spring, asmany as 75 percent were unable to ...
1988 AS THE YEAR ENDS, SOME WERE WINNERS - SOME WERE LOSERS UPS
Jan 01, 1989 ... Thomas Finnerty, law associate of Senate President WilliamBulger, has managed to do what the rest of us dream about: makelots of money without doing any work. According to the GlobeSpotlight Team, Finnerty secured ownership interests in two majordevelopment projects, 75 State St. and ...
POTPOURRI
Jan 01, 1989 ...DATELINES The Israeli shekel was devalued 5 percent last week to stem aspeculative buying binge of foreign currencies . . . Japan'scurrent account surplus grew 14 percent, to $6.762 billion, inNovember over a year ago . . . Turkey will negotiate with LoralCorp. of New York ...
JAPANESE WORKERS' RAISES AVERAGE 4.4%
Jan 01, 1989 ...DATELINES TOKYO - The average Japanese worker got a 4.4 percent pay raisein 1988, or about $75 more each month. The increase was higher thanlast year's 3.6 percent, the lowest since the annual wage surveybegan in 1965. The highest was ...
SOVIETS PROMISED CHEAPER GOODS
Jan 01, 1989 ...DATELINES MOSCOW - Soviet consumers have been promised price cuts of 10 to30 percent on important household goods in the new year. IvanGorbachev, deputy chairman of the State Committee on Prices,reportedly said the cuts would apply to cloth, appliances and othergoods. He said ...
TURKISH SURPLUS, $408M, A RECORD
Jan 01, 1989 ...DATELINES ANKARA - Turkey, helped by rapidly rising earnings from tourism,reported a record current account surplus of $408 million for thefirst 10 months of 1988. "Developments in the current account aremiraculous. The end-year result could show a surplus," StateMinister ...
BRAZIL INFLATION TOPS 900 PERCENT
Jan 01, 1989 ...DATELINES SAO PAULO - Consumer prices shot up a record 28.79 percent inBrazil during December, bringing 1988 inflation to a high of 933.6percent. The December figure exceeded the 25 percent target agreedto by businessmen, the government and labor unions in a social ...
INSURANCE
Jan 01, 1989 ... Paul G. Lofgren, assistant vice president, Liberty MutualInsurance Co., Boston; Wolfgang F. Friedel, vice president andregional manger, Thomas G. Kaiser, senior vice president, and areamanager, Arkwright Mutual Insurance Co., Waltham; Michael W ....
SERVICES
Jan 01, 1989 ... Mary C. Buletza, senior manager, Deloitte Haskins & Sells, Boston; Michael Suitt, consultant, Darling & Associates Inc., NorthAndover; Doris Greenberg, district manager, Search Inc., Framingham; David C. Wright, associate counsel, investment law division, JohnHancock Financial Services, ...
RETAIL
Jan 01, 1989 ... Mark Sellers, senior vice president and chief financial officer,Marshalls Inc., Woburn; Kevin B. Mullahy, merchandise controlmanager, Jacquelyn E. Hebert, graphic artist, Florence Mason,purchasing expeditor, Casual Male, Shrewbury; ...
INDUSTRY
Jan 01, 1989 ... Rob Auster, group director, CAP International, Norwell; StephenTritter, president, Adonis, Tewksbury; Theodore DuVarney, vicepresident, David Hoff, field sales manager, Universal/Univis Inc.,North Attleborough; Brenda P. Taylor, corporate accounting manager,HyComp Inc., Marlborough; Frank ...
ASSOCIATIONS
Jan 01, 1989 ... Rita O'Brien, of Boston, formerly vice president with New EnglandTelephone, named vice president of the Committee of 200, Chicago. Joseph Zampitella, vice president, Progressive ConsumersCredit Union, named executive director; Adrienne E. Rowles,president of Rowles Mortgage Service ...
HIGH TECHNOLOGY
Jan 01, 1989 ... Stan Milnes, assistant vice president, Dan Wessel, regional salesdirector, Boston Technology, Cambridge; Gene L. Piken,international distributor sales manager, Progress Software Corp.,Bedford; Robert E. Donahue, vice president and corporatecontroller, Stratus Computer Inc., Marlborough; ...
CHILD WORLD NAMES HAYES
Jan 01, 1989 ... Peter J. Hayes has been named chief executive officer of ChildWorld Inc., in Avon.Hayes joined Child World in 1988 as president and later waselected a director.Previously, he was chairman of Gold ...
PUBLISHERS CASHING IN ON TREND
Jan 01, 1989; ... On Christmas eve, many years ago, I lay quietly in my bed.I did not rustle the sheets.I was listening for a sound -- a sound a friend had told meI'd never hear -- the ringing bells of Santa's sleigh."There's no Santa," my friend had insisted, but I knew he ...
ILLUSTRATIONS ARE THEIR TREASURE
Jan 01, 1989; ... A policeman, Cinderella, a butler who is also a pig: These weresome of the objects in Emily Bush's treasure hunt.The seekers were third graders from the Heath School inBrookline who were visiting Boston's Bush Gallery, which ownerEmily Bush says is the only gallery in the United ...
PEOPLE IN EDUCATION
Jan 01, 1989 ... Howard R. Swearer has been named director of the Institutefor International Studies at Brown University. Swearer will be incharge of fund-raising and international relations and research. Swearer has been president of Brown since 1977. He receiveda bachelor's degree in ...
THE YEAR OF THE YOUNG READER STARTS TODAY
Jan 01, 1989; ... Today marks the beginning of a nationwide campaign to celebratethe joys of reading. The Library of Congress has designated 1989 asThe Year of the Young Reader. The purpose of the campaign is tospark enthusiasm for reading by highlighting the enjoyment andimportance of books for ...
CARLE'S CATERPILLARS: DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE
Jan 01, 1989; ... NORTHAMPTON - There are many caterpillars in Eric Carle's house.There is the caterpillar needlepoint picture he received froma little boy in Japan. There is the caterpillar magnet, paperweightand collages sent to him by children across the United States. And,of course, there is ...
SIMMONS HAS COUNTRY'S ONLY CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Jan 01, 1989; ... A teacher is looking for children's classics to supplementtextbooks called basal readers. A school librarian wants to"recharge" her batteries. A writer of children's books is lookingfor insight. All three say they found what they were searching forat the same source: the Center for the ...
CHARREN WANTS TV TO LEAD CHILDREN TO BOOKS
Jan 01, 1989; ... Right now, Peggy Charren says, children's television is aPandora's Box. She wants to change it to an Aladdin's Lamp that will fulfillher wish. Charren, who fights for quality television programming forchildren through Action for Children's Television, wishestelevision ...
AFTER A DRY PERIOD, CLASSROOMS TURN AGAIN TO THE JOY OF READING SCHOOLS WORK TO INCORPORATE LITERATURE INTO CURRICULUM, INVOLVE ENTIRE COMMUNITY -- INCLUDING THE JANITORS -- INTO ACTIVITY
Jan 01, 1989; ... It's 7:40 a.m. in Barbara Goldrick's sixth grade classroom at thePatrick F. Gavin Middle School in South Boston. The sun pours inthrough windows on one side of the classroom, and the children pourin the other."Time to start reading," Goldrick calls. The students pull outbooks, ...
PRUDENTIAL PROPERTY NAMES A GM
Jan 01, 1989 ... Gregory Winter has been promoted to general manager of realestate development at the Prudential Property Co. Inc. of Boston.Winter is project manager of the Prudential CenterRedevelopment and his responsibilities include coordinating allmaster planning activities and working with ...
BRITISH INVESTORS BUY ONE LIBERTY SQUARE
Jan 01, 1989 ... The sale of One Liberty Square, the distinguished 13-storyturn-of-the-century building in the heart of Boston's FinancialDistrict, has been arranged by Jones Lang Wootton, the New YorkCity real estate company. The 162,000-square-foot building was sold by a Britishinsurance ...
LOT & BLOCKS
Jan 01, 1989; ... Jan. 1. A day when people relax, put their feet up on the table,eat lots of food, watch too much television -- and reminisce aboutthe high and low points of the last 12 months.So with that tradition in mind, here's a new one: the firstLots & Blocks look at the year behind us. Who ...
STEPHEN COYLE: 'IT WON'T BE A BOOM YEAR, BUT IT WILL BE BUSY'
Jan 01, 1989; ... Stephen Coyle, who Mayor Flynn appointed to head the BostonRedevelopment Authority in the summer of 1984, is nothing if notexpansive.Ask him about housing subsidies, and he ponders theimplication of Europe's plans for economic unity in 1992. Ask himabout design issues, ...
BASEBOARDS SNAP, CRACKLE AND POP
Jan 01, 1989; ... Q. My house is 3,500 square feet, so it has a lot of baseboardhot-water heating units made of copper pipe covered with heatingfins, and covered with a sheet metal shell. When the heat comes on,the baseboards pop, creak, bang and rattle. The same thing happenswhen the heat goes off. What can ...
A FEW TIPS ON ELIMINATING THOSE HOME-VIDEO HEADACHES
Jan 01, 1989; ... It's odd how certain childhood memories seem stronger than apicture in hand. It seems like only last year that my grandmotherwas alive, Super 8 wind-up movie camera in hand.A 1960s foliage trip up the Kancamagus in the family Ramblerstation wagon shimmers particularly vividly ...
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM SOCIAL SECURITY: A MEDICARE TAX INCREASE
Jan 01, 1989; ... Happy New Year! And, from the National Committee to PreserveSocial Security and Medicare, a reminder to Social Securitybeneficiaries with taxable income that the "seniors-only" tax --the supplemental Medicare premium imposed by last year's MedicareCatastrophic Coverage Act -- begins ...
WHITING STILL REACHING FOR THE HIGH NOTES
Jan 01, 1989; ... NEW YORK - When Margaret Whiting, a pop singing star of the '40sand early '50s, hands you her business card, it contains only herfirst name. During this conversation over lunch at the Petit Cafeof The Hampshire House, Whiting says she defines her success asestablishing a star image ...
GROWING UP VERY ABSURD
Jan 01, 1989; ...THIS BOY'S LIFE A Memoir By Tobias Wolff. Atlantic Monthly Press. 288 pp. $18.95. The grainy realism of Tobias Wolff's fiction has always suggesteda life spent in the glare of experience and not the shadows. "ThisBoy's Life" confirms that suspicion, ...
BOOKMAKING
Jan 01, 1989; ... The weirdest publication of the turning year is, by a long chalk,"P. W. Botha In His Own Words," compiled by Pieter-Dirk Uys andjust published in America as a Penguin Original paperback ($4.95).Uys is an actor, whose specialty is impersonating Botha on thestage, and his compilation is so ...
STEM TO STERN
Jan 01, 1989 ... Dana Story's "Building the Blackfish" (Ten Pound Island Book Co.,$24.95) relates the 1938 building of the 52-foot schooner yachtBlackfish in the Story shipyard in Essex. Included in the book are86 photographs by the late John Clayton, which ...
A TRAVELER'S YEAR THAT WAS
Jan 01, 1989; ... Looking back on the last year's labors as a traveling man, Ihave to acknowledge a few missed opportunities but mostly recall --human nature being what it is -- the treats, triumphs andoccasional epiphanies of the road.I moved at a fair clip, despite the now normal number ...
A NEW YEAR -- A NEW US-CANADIAN AGREEMENT
Jan 01, 1989; ... Today marks the beginning of a new era in commerce between Canadaand the United States, with the implementation of the US-CanadaFree Trade Agreement, which over the next 10 years will virtuallyeliminate tariffs and trade barriers between the two nations.The agreement, however, has ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Jan 01, 1989; ... FEE OF THE WEEK: The flat real estate market won't spare thestate's 40 private schools for real estate brokers and salespeoplefrom pitching in on the state deficit. Starting Jan. 21, the fee,which was discontinued last year, is back: $65 for an application,$235 for an operating ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Jan 01, 1989; ... Esquire magazine, in its fifth annual register of distinguishedmen and women whom it considers dedicated to "giving concreteexistence to their values and dreams," included Rev. Charles Stithof Roxbury on its roster. Esquire quoted ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Jan 01, 1989; ... Gov. Dukakis is working hard on his State of the State speechcoming up on Thursday, and sources in the governor's office say itwill be a personal speech that may drop hints about his politicalfuture. A trusted campaign aide who used to write many of ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Jan 01, 1989; ... The irrepressible Harvey Robbins says the Codex Corp.'s sale ofits Prowse Farm headquarters will have severe political fallout forthe Duke. Robbins and former Boston Celtic Dave Cowens led theopposition to the siting of the headquarters at the Blue Hillslocation, but lost their battle when ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Jan 01, 1989; ... Rep. James Brett (D-Dorchester) is fuming at the Department ofPublic Works for starting to refurbish the Savin Hill Bridgewithout a word to the lawmaker or his constituents. Brett brandedthe action "officious and overbearing" in a ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Jan 01, 1989; ... Jack Weeks, Gov. Dukakis' campaign advance man who helped set upthe now-infamous M-1 tank photo opportunity, may now have a chanceto put the Duke in some bulldozers. The South Boston native ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Jan 01, 1989; ... Bridgewater State College interim president Adrian Rondileau gotsome bad press last month when the board of trustees voted to givehim a $19,000 "golden handshake." That deal was canceled, but nowRondileau, who served for ...
SHORT CIRCUITS
Jan 01, 1989; ... Gov. Dukakis may be on the verge of solving the problem of havingan all-white Cabinet. Sources say Grady Hedgespeth, a 33-year-oldVirginia native who heads the state child-support collectioneffort, is the leading choice to take over ...
ONE LUCKY -- OR VERY SMART -- GUY
Jan 01, 1989; ... How good was he?Much better than I thought he'd be. I never voted for him.But as a president, he was bigger, stronger, better than Iexpected. Lots of what he tried worked.Who is better off after Reagan? The rich. The upper half ofthe middle class. The corporate class ....
FLYNN INFLAMES THE STATIES
Jan 01, 1989; ... If Ray Flynn is running for governor, he certainly has miles togo before he wins over the State Police. Ten days ago, fourunmarked State Police cruisers were parked on Joy Street in spacesreserved for "official use only" -- that is, official cityvehicles. The cruisers, belonging to the ...
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY 'DUH'
Jan 01, 1989; ... In a cover story headlined "Mr. Stupid goes to Washington," thelatest edition of SPY magazine serves up its roster of the "tendumbest legislators on Capitol Hill." And Massachusetts boasts twoof them -- Edward J. Markey and Joseph P. Kennedy 2d."Stupidity may be evaluated strictly ...
STOP 1988: I WANT TO GET OFF IT WAS A DIZZYING, DAZZLING, EVER-CHANGING YEAR OF TRANSITION
Jan 01, 1989; ...Communications, Inc. as creator of the controversial WillieHorton commercial during George Bush's campaign for president. The commercials were created and produced by an independentgroup, not Ailes Communications, Inc. or the Bush campaign. A ...