The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from December 1989:
WHERE THE REAL POWER LIES
Dec 01, 1989; ... This weekend's summit takes place at a time when the monetary,military and poltical world order that the Yalta conference helpedshape 44 years ago is no more. And neither superpower meeting offMalta this weekend is super enough anymore to dictate a new orderon its own.The ...
A CAUTIOUS EYE ON REUNIFICATION
Dec 01, 1989; ... BERLIN - Not unlike President Bush, West German ChancellorHelmut Kohl has been revealingly tardy in rising to the occasion ofthis fall's historic events.Also not unlike Bush, he has made belated amends, toconsiderable and deserved applause.Unlike Bush, however, the ...
HEY GORBY, DO YOU WANT BALTIC AVE. OR PARK PLACE?
Dec 01, 1989; ... Too bad they haven't scheduled a Monopoly game at the summitmeeting this weekend.If George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev were to get down andbargain over Baltic Avenue they would surely come away feelingthey'd each seen into the core of the other man.Were I running this show, ...
AMERICA'S WARS
Dec 01, 1989 ... Secretary of State James Baker is wrong to call CentralAmerica "the biggest obstacle to an across the-board improvement inUS-Soviet relations." The conflicts there, which have their rootsin deep historic inequities, were intensified by the machinationsof the United States....
AVERTING A BEIRUT BLOOD BATH
Dec 01, 1989 ... In pursuit of his design to dominate Lebanon, Syrian rulerHafez Assad is threatening the Christian community of East Beirutwith a blood bath. Monday night and Tuesday morning, 800 truckscrossed the Lebanese border, carrying 15,000 Syrian soldiers towardBeirut. The invaders were ...
HONORING AN IMMIGRANT HERITAGE
Dec 01, 1989 ... The Vilna Shul, a humble synagogue on Beacon Hill, deservesto become a landmark for future generations of Bostonians. Anunfortunate legal entanglement is clouding the future of thishistoric structure. Built in 1919, the shul symbolizes a time in the city'shistory that ...
BNE TO 60 MINUTES: CUT!
Dec 01, 1989; ... And you think you've got problems! Here's the Bank of New Englandlooking at its first loss -- some analysts predict a $100 millionwhopper -- in recent history, and all of a sudden, who's knockingat the door? It's the 60 Minutes crew, with correspondent EdBradley, asking for an interview ...
TRADES OFFER PLAN TO CURB LOSSES TO NONUNION JOBS
Dec 01, 1989; ... Saying that the trade unions' share of the constructiondollar has fallen dangerously in Greater Boston, the MassachusettsBuilding Trades Council yesterday announced a five-point plan forreducing construction job losses to nonunion contractors.Traditional leafletting and ...
A STORE CLOSES, AND SENIORS FRET
Dec 01, 1989; ... Muriem MacDonald slowly rolled her grocery cart down theaisles of the Stop & Shop in Brighton, with only a dozen brown eggsin the basket.The 72-year-old woman sighed as she looked at the barren metalshelves."I feel sick to my stomach. It's such a convenience. I ...
DEAL DUE FOR NEW HOTEL ON TREMONT
Dec 01, 1989; ... A German hotel operator is on the verge of signing an agreementto build a luxury hotel downtown on Tremont Street across fromBoston Common.Kempinski International Inc., the hotel subsidiary ofLufthansa German Airlines, is close to a final deal with thedevelopers of Parkside ...
PAPER MERGER WOULDN'T HURT MAINE MILLS, BIDDER CLAIMS
Dec 01, 1989; ... Georgia-Pacific Corp.'s chairman and chief executiveyesterday reaffirmed his commitment to provide employment at GreatNorthern's beleaguered mill in Millinocket, Maine if G-P succeedsin its $3.8 billion takeover of Great Northern Nekoosa Corp."We're buying the mill not to ...
TREMONT TEMPLE, TOWER PLAN DUE TODAY PROPOSAL IS SCALED DOWN BUT VIOLATES HEIGHT LIMIT
Dec 01, 1989; ... A trimmed-back plan for restoring the 95-year-old TremontTemple Baptist Church, and building a 16-story office structurenext door, will be unveiled today -- with the developers bettingthat the help they're offering the aging downtown church will winthem the right to violate downtown ...
HELPING HOMELESS COULD BE PROFIT-MAKING VENTURE
Dec 01, 1989; ... Helping the homeless became a profit-making enterpriseyesterday.The Pine Street Inn, the city's largest shelter for thehomeless, said it had teamed up with The New England, one of thenation's largest insurance companies, and designed a new product ithopes will make ...
A DAY TO REMEMBER ARTISTS GIVE VOICE TO SONGS UNSUNG
Dec 01, 1989; ... The seasons come and go now, and as the artists have diedfrom the disease, there are the memorials in coffeehouses, in thelofts, in the art galleries, survivors walking through the halls ofthe Piano Factory -- an artists' enclave in Boston -- to attendthe wake or funeral of yet ...
THREE LIVES IN ARTS, THREE LIVES CUT SHORT
Dec 01, 1989; ... They were young men, all 35 and under. An actor, a pianistand an artist. One by one, beginning in June 1988, they died ofAIDS.As the nation and the local arts community set aside this dayto mourn the deaths of thousands of men and women like them, familyand friends of ...
A FRESH LOOK AT A LARGE-SCALE DIRECTOR
Dec 01, 1989; ...DAVID LEAN By Stephen M. Silverman Abrams, 208 pp., $39.95, illustrated Critics have forgiven David Lean his success with wide-screenepics, but only just. As actress Sarah Miles, who starred in"Ryan's Daughter," said: "He did the big ones, didn't he? And ...
VISIONS OF THE SUGARPLUM FAIRY DANCE AGAIN
Dec 01, 1989; ...THE NUTCRACKER Presented by: The Boston Ballet At: the Wang Center for the Performing Arts, last night (production continues, with different casts, through December 31) Four little lambs - children in fuzzy white suits, with ...
A LOOK IN THE MIRROR CURED NAIL-BITING
Dec 01, 1989 ... Dear Beth:About biting your nails: My mom cured me by making me look inthe mirror when I was chewing on mine. When I saw how gross Ilooked with my mouth all askew, it reminded me not to do it nexttime my fingers came up to my mouth. EX-NAIL-GNAWER Dear Beth: ...
LIGHTING UP THE BACK BAY
Dec 01, 1989; ... Big doings on Newbury and Boylston streets tomorrow. The NewburyStreet League will stage a gala tree-lighting ceremony on the lawnof the svelte new Louis' building at 4. The idea, of course, is toget you to stroll down one of Boston's toniest streets, and look atall the goodies in the ...
NAMES AND FACES
Dec 01, 1989 ... John A. Curry, the first graduate of Northeastern University tobecome its president, receives a memento of his student days fromDeborah Edwards, student government president. The enlargement isof his 1956 yearbook photo and is a present for his ...
HORSZOWSKI'S UNFORGETTABLE ART OF THE PIANO
Dec 01, 1989; ...MIECZYSLAW HORSZOWSKI In: A piano recital, part of the Longy Celebrated Artists Series At: the Longy School, last night Mieczyslaw Horszowski has been playing the piano in public sincehe was five, which means that his career is now three years ...
CBS ENTERTAINMENT LOSES SWEEPS, CHIEF
Dec 01, 1989; ... NEW YORK - With his network facing a third straight season asNo. 3 in prime-time ratings, CBS entertainment-division presidentKim LeMasters resigned yesterday from the post he had held for onlytwo years. His resignation, which had been expected, was announced bothhere and at ...
CH. 5 WINS MOST NEWS RATINGS BATTLES
Dec 01, 1989; ... If local newscasts are the most closely watched barometers whenit comes to ratings, then WCVB-TV took bragging rights in theNovember "sweeps" period. "NewsCenter 5" won in all the main timeslots except for 11 p.m., which WBZ continued to dominate.Channel 5's command at 6 p.m. was ...
THE COMFORTS OF CHEZ NOUS AND FIVE SEASONS
Dec 01, 1989; ... A weekly pair of updated capsule reviews to remind readers ofarea restaurants that have made the most favorable impression onthe Boston Globe restaurant critic. Chez Nous * * * 1/2 147 Huron Ave., Cambridge 864-6670 Chez Nous, Elizabeth Fischer's splendid little ...
'BABY, IT'S YOU' CHANGES ITS TUNES
Dec 01, 1989; ... MUSIC THROUGH THE YEARS: The recent release of John Sayles'"Baby, It's You" on video is not precisely the same version thatappeared in theaters. According to Video magazine, the film hasbeen held prisoner, away from home video for six years, because ofentangled music rights. Sayles' used ...
'VACATION' NO VISIT TO LAUGHLAND
Dec 01, 1989; ...NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION Directed by: Jeremiah S. Chechik Screenplay by: John Hughes Starring : Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Diane Ladd, John Randolph, E.G. Marshall, Doris Roberts, Mae Questel, ...
HOMAGE TO BETTE DAVIS CONTINUES
Dec 01, 1989; ... This is the year that movie buffs are quoting famous Bette Davislines at one another. You can go right to the source Sunday at theBrattle Theater in Cambridge, where the Davis homage continues withtwo trashy classics: "Now, Voyager" (1942) and "Beyond the Forest"(1949). The first, of ...
'PHANTOM' PUBLICITY: MORE WOOL OVER THE EYES
Dec 01, 1989; ... The producers of Ken Hill's "Phantom of the Opera" are still atit.It has occurred to a number of people that Hill & Company hasbeen taking wild advantage of the success of Andrew Lloyd Webber's"Phantom," a megahit in London, New York, Toronto and Los Angeles.Hill's cheesy little ...
HOT TUNA, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE GOING SEPARATE WAYS
Dec 01, 1989; ... Hot Tuna, the splinter group from Jefferson Airplane, are back onthe road -- and are none too happy with the present state of theAirplane. After this summer's impressive Airplane reunion tour,members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady kept a prior commitment toreform Hot Tuna. But fellow ...
AIDS BENEFIT OFFERS LAUGHS IN A GOOD CAUSE
Dec 01, 1989; ...STAND UP FOR AIDS BENEFIT At: Symphony Hall, last night A comedy benefit organized around the AIDS issue is no laughingmatter. That might explain why a meager 500 people -- one-fourth ofcapacity -- turned up at last night's Symphony Hall benefit for theAIDS Action ...
BRANFORD MARSALIS EMBRACES TRADITION FROM A PERSONAL POINT OF VIEW
Dec 01, 1989; ... Images can be deceiving.Just a couple of years ago saxophonist Branford Marsalisarrived at the Newport Jazz Festival sporting sneakers, bermudashorts, wraparound sun glasses and a baseball hat worn catcherstyle. The contrast with brother Wynton -- who played the followingday and ...
TALKING TO KIDS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS
Dec 01, 1989; ... 'You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout,I'm telling you why: Santa Claus is coming to town."For centuries, telling children about Santa Claus has been onelie most parents don't hate to tell. Perhaps surprisingly, it'salso one lie some psychologists say it's ...
ARMENIAN GROUP GOES STRAIGHT TO THE HEART
Dec 01, 1989; ...THE ARMENIAN PHILHARMONIC Loris Tjeknavorian, music director At: Symphony Hall, Wednesday evening The Armenian Philharmonic played its first concert outside theSoviet Union on Wednesday night, and it was an occasion to stir thesoul.There were many ...
FINE ART FURNITURE MFA AND GALLERIES SHOWCASE VIRTUOSO WOODWORKERS
Dec 01, 1989; ... Honduran mahogany, maple, ebony, rosewood, curly sycamore,maple veneers, fiberboard, black Andes granite, patinated copper,brass, and, oh yes, pomele sepele, which is a figured mahogany witha quilted look.Those are the ingredients of a sensational sideboard by RickWrigley, ...
A CASTLE FULL OF CRAFTS FOR SALE
Dec 01, 1989; ... A Frank Lloyd Wright house for under $2,000? Sure. It'sonly 14 inches high, though, and it's made out of clay. It's byChicago artist Hugh Eliot Spector, who is making his Boston debutat Crafts at the Castle, arguably the finest of the Christmas craftfairs hereabouts.While ...
A PRIMER FOR NEW FURNITURE SHOWS
Dec 01, 1989; ... Memorize this short glossary of terms that apply to work inthe MFA's "New American Furniture" show and impress friends andeavesdroppers as you tour the galleries: No more breaking into asweat of panicky ignorance when someone says "bubinga." Studio furniture: MFA curator ...
CARTER MULLS MOVES
Dec 01, 1989; ... Joe Carter was sitting at home in Leawood, Kan., playing avideo boxing game. He was as engrossed in it as teams from SanDiego to Boston are engrossed in him."Hello . . . can you wait a second?" he told a reporter afterpicking up the phone.As a matter of fact, Carter ...
NEELY WASN'T BOXED IN BY BUFFALO'S RAY OF HOSTILITY
Dec 01, 1989; ... The game between the two hottest teams in the National HockeyLeague had just ended. Siren. The Bruins swarmed out to surroundgoalie Andy Moog. Sabre toughie Mike Hartman stood briefly at hisBuffalo bench, then suddenly attacked the plexiglass of the Bruins'bench with his stick, a full ...
BRUINS HAMMER BUFFALO
Dec 01, 1989; ... Imagine, for a moment, waking up in, oh, mid-June to aheadline that reads: "Red Sox steal 11 bases, thump Twins, 11-3." Moments after getting up off the floor, dusting yourself offand dialing 911, you'd drive down to Kenmore Square and ask forproof. Perhaps Joe ...
MOOG THE MAIN MAN IN NET
Dec 01, 1989; ... The Bruins' 1-2 goaltending tandem, Andy Moog and Reggie Lemelin,has evolved into something more like a pitching rotation, with Moogthe stopper/ starter and Lemelin the spot starter. Moog, in net for last night's 5-1 win over the Sabres at theGarden, made his second straight start ...
DURAN IS FIGHTING ONLY FOR REDEMPTION VS. LEONARD
Dec 01, 1989; ... MIAMI - Even the windows had begun to perspire at the LasAmericas Gym.A solitary ceiling fan punched its arms slowly out at theflaccid air, but judging by the steam on the windows and the waterseeping through everyone's shirts, few of the punches were ...
MANY CELTIC GUARDS GET A SHOT
Dec 01, 1989; ... BROOKLINE - Celtics guard Jim Paxson got a surprise fromcoach Jimmy Rodgers just before Wednesday night's game against theNets. He would start for the first time since Boston's first twogames.Reggie Lewis' ankle injury paved the way for Paxson to bepromoted from a reserve ...
DEPLETED CAVALIERS STRUGGLE
Dec 01, 1989; ... BROOKLINE - Nearly one month into the National BasketballAssociation season, Lenny Wilkens finds himself conducting trainingcamp all over again. With four members of the Cleveland Cavaliers (Mark Price, BradDaugherty, Larry Nance and Tree Rollins) out with injuries andanother (Ron ...
TNT KEEPS NBA RIGHTS; CABLEVISION TO JOIN IN
Dec 01, 1989; ... There was enriching news yesterday for the Celtics and manyfans of the National Basketball Association in Greater Boston.The league announced a renewed national cable contract withTNT that will generate an increase in rights fees next season of$1.5 million over this year for ...
DID BOSTON OFFER O'BRIEN A FOUR-YEAR CONTRACT?
Dec 01, 1989; ...Globe staffer Jack Craig contributed to this report. Two American League general managers indicated yesterday the RedSox had the inside track on free agent first baseman Pete O'Brien.One of them was Seattle GM Woody Woodward, who thought the Red Soxwere the team that offered ...
THEY DIDN'T PANIC
Dec 01, 1989; ... The first great temptation was in the Garden of Eden, and weall know, gratefully, how Adam handled it. It was all the devil'sfault.Last night the Bruins wouldn't play Adam to Clint Malarchuk'sdeviltry. The Buffalo goalie played so well in the first period alesser team than ...
KAELIN SHINES CAPTURES THE GIANT SLALOM; TOMBA IS DISQUALIFIED
Dec 01, 1989; ... WATERVILLE VALLEY, N.H. - Wednesday's heroes becameyesterday's also-rans as a Swiss skier who had never been in thetop 10 came from 17th position to win the giant slalom, ending twodays of World Cup races.Urs Kaelin, a 23-year-old whose best finish was a 10th placein a ...
DURFEE'S MURRAY IS RULED INELIGIBLE
Dec 01, 1989; ... John Murray, a starting guard and the captain of Durfee HighSchool's state champion basketball team, was declared academicallyineligible yesterday.Murray averaged 7.3 points a game last year as Durfee won itssecond straight Division 1 state title and extended its winningstreak to ...
PATRIOTS ARE FACING A HARD SELL IN BID TO AVOID ATTENDANCE LOW
Dec 01, 1989; ... FOXBOROUGH - The Patriots' lack of success on the fieldthis season may be minor compared to the problems they are havingwith their shrinking fan base.With two home games remaining, including Sunday's contestagainst the Indianapolis Colts, the Patriots could have ...
GLOOMY FORECAST: COLTS, MAYBE SNOW ON HORIZON
Dec 01, 1989; ... FOXBOROUGH - Bad team. Bad weather. Not the best combination fora football game. That shapes up as the situation Sunday for thePatriots-Colts game at Sullivan Stadium because snow is in theforecast.For the players, weather conditions are like injuries. Youdeal with them because ...
HEISMAN CHASE GOING DOWN TO THE WIRE
Dec 01, 1989; ... The Downtown Athletic Club has already signed, sealed anddelivered its invitations to tomorrow's 55th Heisman Trophy Awardpresentation, and has extended personal invites to Blair Thomas ofPenn State, Tony Rice of Notre Dame, Anthony Thompson of Indiana,Dee Dowis of the Air Force Academy, ...
VIEWERS BURIED IN COMMERCIALS
Dec 01, 1989; ... Albert Einstein professed he didn't have time to look to thefuture, and sports fans should dare not glimpse ahead, either, lestthey be blinded by commercials, promotions, logos, rhymes andjingles, and broadcasters who are shameless.Stallball will be truly in vogue, and CBS proved a ...
LAMBI IGNORED BY THE LOONEYS
Dec 01, 1989; ... Once upon a time, the free and happy creature (call her Lambi),having spent her life roaming wherever in the world the wildcallings of her heart might draw her, was ignorant of the deadlyman-creature who had lain . . . a trap.Oh, the trap! The trap! Beware the trap, Dear Lambi! The ...
A VALUABLE PLOT
Dec 01, 1989; ... Pigoll Mangold and Bubbert of Hamburg have won the right to sellthe turf of Rome's Olympic Stadium after the 1990 World Cup final. The Italian Olympic Committee accepted the bid from the WestGerman company, which will supply and plant the grass in theballpark in exchange for the ...
CLOSELY GUARDED
Dec 01, 1989; ... LaSalle basketball player Lionel Simmons, two-time MVP of theMetro Atlantic Athletic Conference, has a $1 million insurancepolicy with Lloyd's of London, payable if he is injured during theseason to the extent that ...
SUITE AND SOUR
Dec 01, 1989; ... The NCAA Tournament's Final Four basketball playoffs will remainat Denver's McNichols Sports Arena, despite a judge's ruling thatthe NCAA cannot oust a local lawyer from his private suite. The nine-member Division 1 men's basketball committeereaffirmed Monday its commitment to hold ...
DESORMEAUX SETS VICTORY MARK
Dec 01, 1989; ... LAUREL, Md. - Jockey Kent Desormeaux eclipsed a 15-year-oldrecord for winners in a year when he won his 547th race of 1989 inthe fifth race yesterday at Laurel Race Course. Desormeaux, 19, surpassed the mark set by Chris ...
THEY'RE HOT TICKETS WITH SCALPERS -- AND POLICE
Dec 01, 1989; ... The mouse kept darting in and out of the shadows. Loge seats for$50 a shot. The cat watched from behind the pretzel stand, smiling,a Cheshire smile on his face, smiling at a $50 street price for a$33 face-value ticket. One price for the Bruins' success. "Do you have one ticket?" a ...
CBS SLATES 4 SOX GAMES
Dec 01, 1989; ... The Red Sox are one of five major league teams that willappear the maximum four times on network television next seasonwhen CBS takes over exclusively the contract formerly shared by NBCand ABC.The 16-game schedule, comprised of 15 telecasts on Saturdaysand one on a ...
A VERY STINGY BUNCH DEFENSE SUPERB
Dec 01, 1989; ... A fact lost in the recent glow of offense: The Bruins havebeen playing great defense.How great? This great: Entering last night's game against theSabres, the Bruins had allowed the fewest goals in the league, 63.But they had played only 23 games, and from a ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1989 ... Q. I have a 1933 Certificate of Participation issued by theNational City Bank of Chelsea. What is it?M.G., PeabodyA. According to Donald Clark's Dictionary of Business andFinance, a certificate of participation is sometimes issued by aninvestment company in place of ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1989 ... Q. Who wrote the words to that old ballad, "Wait Till theSun Shines, Nellie"? -- E.F., BurlingtonA. David Ewen, in his American Popular Songs, says Andrew B.Sterling put words to the music of Harry von Tilzer. The song ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1989 ... Q. Where is stripper Tempest Storm nowadays?R.S.,DeerfieldA. Now 61, Storm lives in San Francisco. Two years ago sherecounted the story of her life in a book titled "Tempest Storm,"published by the Atlanta firm of Peachtree. Born Annie BlancheBanks in Eastman, Ga., ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1989 ... Q. Is statuesque British movie actress Frieda Inescort stillliving? F.B., SomervilleA. In his Film Encyclopedia, cinema historian Ephraim Katznotes that the popular leading lady died in 1976 after a long boutwith multiple sclerosis. Born Frieda Wightman in Edinburgh in ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Dec 01, 1989 ... Q. Is Pete Rose the real name of the former Cincinnati Redsmanager? B.E., BurlingtonA. According to Current Biography, Peter Edward Rose was bornApril 14, 1942, in Cincinnati. The troubled ...