The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from September 1991:
Ford $9 mil sub for Baldwin?
Sep 01, 1991; ...REGARDING CLANCY: Paramount may pay Harrison Ford $9 million toreplace Alec Baldwin in "Patriot Games," the second of three TomClancy movies, says the Hollywood Reporter. Baldwin, who playedagent Jack Ryan in "The Hunt for Red October," is changing heartafter a shooting-date shift that ...
`Walking time bomb' was allergic to some foods
Sep 01, 1991; ... DALLAS -- People thought Sandy Mathews was an awful mom. In the grocery store, shoppers glared when her son, Patrick,threw tantrums. At school, teachers waited at the classroom door totell her about his fights and inattentiveness. In the car, shewrestled to control the ...
BUMMERS AND HOT TICKETS Summer movie season offered performances and movies to savor and others worth forgetting
Sep 01, 1991; ... This summer, Hollywood truly cleaned up. The traditional paradeof action sequels never came, the bloodbaths never flowed. Most ofthe big releases were frivolous comedies such as "Naked Gun 2 1/2"and "Hot Shots" or modest conscience dramas on the order of"Regarding Henry" and "The ...
When a town loses its future
Sep 01, 1991; ...THE SWEET HEREAFTER By Russell Banks. HarperCollins. 257 pp. $20. Russell Banks' fiction holds such simple, internal authority thatit's easy to wander into his land of exile, whether the solitude of aNew Hampshire winter or the darker isolation of a man's mind ....
BOOKMAKING
Sep 01, 1991; ... Sparks should fly Sept. 19, when Camille Paglia speaks on"Crisis in the American Universities" at MIT. Her recent appearanceson talk shows have challenged many of the views -- what she wouldterm "orthodoxies" -- of present-day scholarship and teaching. Paglia is a provocative ...
Large format + dye transfer = grand art
Sep 01, 1991; ... To experience a John Wawrzonek photograph printed by thedye-transfer process is a mind-bending treat. Perhaps it's a 32- x40-inch rendition of a Maine blueberry barren in autumn flame. Or aridge of Maine hardwoods in peak September color. Or a quiet view ofa loosestrife-lined brook, ...
Celebrity Alliances- Who's hyping whom
Sep 01, 1991; ... On Oct. 6, five weeks from today, ina private ceremonythat has al ready yielded a bushel of publi city, ElizabethTaylor will do theaisle-walk for the eighth time. Giving heraway will be Michael Jackson, whose Santa Ynez Valley estate, called"Neverland Valley," will serve ...
3 women can mold education
Sep 01, 1991; ... In the Soviet Union, the hard liners rebelled at MikhailGorbachev's perestroika and glasnost, which were moving the70-year-old Communist state toward an open and democratic society.They staged a coup, and 72 hours later Gorbachev recouped. If you like tossing around those Russian ...
Use of profit optional when trading up
Sep 01, 1991; ... Most trade-up home buyers face this choice: do they use all ofthe profit from the sale of their first home as a downpayment ontheir next house, or do they use a small percentage.? The right choice depends on the needs of the individual buyer,real estate analysts say. Most ...
CORRECTION
Sep 01, 1991 ...CORRECTION: Because of a production error, photographs in theAug. 25 Travel section ...
There'll be no lull - and it won't be dull
Sep 01, 1991; ... Ever find yourself at a loss for conversational fodder at socialgatherings? It happens to almost everybody, sooner or later. Maybewhat you need are a few sure-fire conversation-starters. Forexample: "I think George Bush is the sexiest man alive." "Nobody really cares what's ...
A unique beauty -- for now
Sep 01, 1991 ... Over the holiday weekend, many urban and suburban families willbe heading off for New England's coastline and its mountains. Thetimely publication of the proceedings of a conference on managinggrowth and development in such "unique, natural settings" providesnew warning of easily we ...
The danger in the Soviet collapse
Sep 01, 1991 ... The curtain has come down on the gory historical pageant knownas Soviet communism. In dizzying succession, the Communist Party wassuspended, the government of the Soviet state was transformed into apowerless vestige, and the imperial union of 104 nationalities wasabandoned by seceding ...
The developer as folk hero
Sep 01, 1991; ... EDGE CITY Life on the New Frontier. By Joel Garreau. Doubleday. 526 pp. $22. Robert Wood, author of "Suburbia," served as undersecretary and secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Johnson administration and was ...
The Democratic game's not over
Sep 01, 1991 ... By the Labor Day weekend four years ago, seven Democraticchallengers were crowding the campaign trail. This time around, theunlikely bid by former Sen. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts to be theparty nominee is still rattling around all by itself -- though notfor much longer. If ...
Puppets on parade
Sep 01, 1991 ... Puppeteer Paul Vincent Davis' version of "Rumplestiltskin" is partof a Puppet Festival at the Puppet Showplace Theater. The old fairytale tells of a servant girl named Hilda who is ordered by the kingto spin straw into gold.She resolves her dilemma with the help of a greedy little ...
`Klinghoffer' librettist revels in power of words
Sep 01, 1991; ...KLINGHOFFER Composer: John Adams Librettist: Alice Goodman Director: Peter Sellars Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sept. 5, 7, 9, 11, 13"The librettist has an immense and secret power," says AliceGoodman, poet and librettist. "The words come ...
Prime the backs of clapboards before installing
Sep 01, 1991; ... Call in your questions on 929-2930. Globe Handyman on Call Peter Hotton is available on Tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. to answer telephone questions on house repair, renovations and fixing up. I am replacing pressed board siding after 20 ...
If this house could talk A Boston mayor built home for mistress
Sep 01, 1991; ... DOVER -- This house was the setting for a lurid sex scandalthat rocked Boston society more than six decades ago. The scandal involved former Boston mayor Andrew J. Peters and the11-year-old daughter of a distant cousin who had been entrusted tohis care. Their brief affair ended ...
Pulling up stakes High housing costs, job losses drive buyers out of Massachusetts
Sep 01, 1991; ... When Bud Bedell and his wife, Sarah Kirschenbaum, were laid offfrom their jobs last month, they decided it was time to move West. On Friday, a van pulled up in front of their apartment in aJamaica Plain triple decker. The couple watched as movers packed andloaded their ...
A village of Japanese tradition A quiet haven of Japanese history
Sep 01, 1991; ... Visitors to Japan who haven't the time or resources to venturebeyond the Tokyo metropolis often lament seeing only the modern,urban Japan. Yet a mere 25-min-ute train ride from Tokyo's ShinjukuStation, in a corner of Kawasaki City, lies a quiet haven of Japanesehistory, the Nihon ...
Out of the studio and in front of an audience
Sep 01, 1991; ... A club or concert hall where the performers are comfortable andthe listeners appreciative can add an extra dimension to jazzrecording. Most musicians consider the studio a sterile andartificial environment and insist that their best playing is donebefore an audience. So the recent ...
Democrats to sound off after all
Sep 01, 1991; ... The Democratic State Committee will be holding its 1992 issuesconvention after all. Subject to committee approval next week,caucuses to select delegates will be held Feb. 29, with theconvention to be held May 30 at the Worcester Centrum. Finding anappropriate site for the event, with ...
Anti-gay petitions in trouble
Sep 01, 1991; ... Four petitions backing a referendum on the gay-rights bill couldbe rejected this week by Attorney General Scott Harshbarger. Thepetitions, which come from the Waltham-based Committee to RestoreTraditional Morality, have come under fire on a number of scores.There's a question of ...
Joseph Joyce, 71; labor leader served Boston for over 40 years
Sep 01, 1991 ...Joseph W. Joyce, a prominent Boston labor leader, died of canceryesterday at New England Deaconess Hospital. He was 71 and lived inJamaica Plain. Mr. Joyce, whose work in the labor movement began more than 40years ago, became recording secretary of Local 17 of the ...
Jaguar XJS convertible is a mild-mannered cat with a heavy appetite
Sep 01, 1991; ... It isn't nice to kick a guy when he's down -- and Jaguar is suredown these days -- but I can't find much to praise in the 1992 JaguarXJS convertible. It looks nice. At least, most people think it looks nice. Itturns heads and gets attention. The ragtop is fairly easy to ...
LOTS & BLOCKS
Sep 01, 1991; ... On location: Cast as architects in the film "Housesitters" that wasbeing shot in downtown Boston last month, Steve Martin and GoldieHawn were obvious choices to become honorary members of the BostonSociety of Architects. The certificate awarded Hawn by BSA president Richard ...
GRAND TIMES ON MACKINAC
Sep 01, 1991; ... Write to Mackinac Island Chamber of Commerce, PO Box 451, Mackinac Island, MI 49757. MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. -- Highway M-183 may be the onlyhighway in North America that has never had a motor-vehicle accident. That's because there aren't any motor vehicles on ...
All-male black schools put on hold in Detroit Girls will be admitted after court challenge
Sep 01, 1991; ... When the school day begins on Sept. 9 in Detroit, what were to bethe public-school system's three "male" academies will add aninteresting component -- female students. The school system agreedlast week to admit girls and abide by a mid-August federal courtinjunction that deemed the ...
How the networks shot themselves in the foot
Sep 01, 1991; ... THREE BLIND MICE How the TV Networks Lost Their Way. By Ken Auletta. Random House. New York. 642 pp. $25. Christopher Lydon is the former co-anchor and senior editor of "The Ten O'Clock News" on WGBH-TV, which ceased production in ...
Blowing the whistle on defense spending
Sep 01, 1991; ... The implosion of the Soviet communist system lays bare thepotential for a worldwide economic boom. Like a vein of rich ore uncovered by an earthquake, riches beyondour dreams are under our feet. When in recorded history have the fates been so propitious? Theend of summer, ...
Freshman orientation redefined
Sep 01, 1991; ... If freshman orientation was ever a carefree introduction tocollege life, it certainly is no longer. Across New England and the nation this week, first-year students("freshman" has been thrown on the junk heap of politicalincorrectness) are being welcomed with seminars on ...
Karl D. Reever, 79 Former pattern and model maker
Sep 01, 1991 ... Karl D. Reever, a former pattern and model maker, died Friday atNew England Deaconess Hospital. He was 79 and lived in Beverly. Born in Warren, Maine, he was employed for 35 years as a woodpattern and model maker with the former USM Corp. in Beverly. Healso operated a woodworking ...
JOHN SAYLES' enduring HOPE In his newest movie chronicling the fate of American cities, the filmmaker remains true to his blue-collar ideals
Sep 01, 1991; ... CITY OF HOPE Directed by: John Sayles Screenplay by: John Sayles Starring: Vincent Spano, Tony Lo Bianco, Joe Morton, Angela Bassett.Opening: Showing Sept. 11 at Boston Film Festival; commercial run opens in October. Cities are in big ...
Collection brings women's struggles and successes to life
Sep 01, 1991; ... SENIOR SET / JEAN DIETZ When her four daughters were growing up in a Chicago townhouseand country homes in Wisconsin and California, Ethel Sturges Dummerhelped family tutors teach the girls handcrafts, home dramatics andhow to play anagrams in foreign languages. In 1914, Dummer ...
A place to hang your hat or anything else
Sep 01, 1991; ... Whether your house is new, old, small, medium or huge, therenever seems to be enough room, mainly for storage. This isespecially true in bathrooms, where the linen closet is so small thatyou have to fold a towel four times to squeeze it in. (Incidentally, don't try folding a ...
Short Circuits
Sep 01, 1991; ... Vroom at the top: If the Senate confirms Supreme Court nomineeClarence Thomas, he'll be the justice with the hottest car in thecourt parking lot. Thomas drives a sporty ...
Short Circuits
Sep 01, 1991; ... It's been said that the best lines in politics are borrowed.That may include the slogan Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder hasadopted for his presidential exploration effort. Last week in ...
Short Circuits
Sep 01, 1991; ...It's all in the timing: Former Sen. Gary Hart's new book on theSoviet Union reached bookstore shelves on Aug. 19, ...
Short Circuits
Sep 01, 1991; ...When Massachusetts political fund-raiser Robert Farmer resignedas Democratic National Committee treasurer last week to begin shakingthe money tree for Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, it was widelyconsidered irrefutable evidence that Clinton has decided to run forthe Democratic ...
Short Circuits
Sep 01, 1991; ... Michael Dukakis' elder daughter, Andrea, was relatively shyaround the press during dad's presidential campaign. Yet she ...
Short Circuits
Sep 01, 1991; ... Top to bottom: After the high of commanding the state'sHurricane Bob forces from the awesome civil defense "bunker" inFramingham, Lt. Gov. Paul ...
Short Circuits
Sep 01, 1991; ... If the hurricane wasn't enough excitement for Cellucci, he alsohas Hollywood to contend with. The lieutenant governor has beennegotiating and nobbing with the Fox Television Network. The Foxseries "Cops," ...
Short Circuits
Sep 01, 1991; ... State public-works chief James J. Kerasiotes, who wants to gethundreds of prisoners out picking up trash from state highways andplugging potholes, appears to be enjoying the fight he has pickedwith employee unions over ...
Short Circuits
Sep 01, 1991; ... The Legislature has thawed Gov. Weld's attempt to ice therenaming of the Taunton Memorial Skating Rink after veteran ex-Sen.Theodore J. Aleixo Jr. (D-Taunton). In July, Weld sent a billrenaming the rink back to the Legislature, ...
Short Circuits
Sep 01, 1991; ... The Democratic silence is deafening in the won't-go-awaybrouhaha over the inheritance by Majority Whip Kevin W. Fitzgerald(D-Boston) of nearly $200,000 from late bag lady Mary Guzelian(a.k.a. Mary Romain). Let him get out of this one himself, is theHill consensus: It's beginning to ...
Short Circuits
Sep 01, 1991; ... Dan Eramian, the Massachusetts Republican spin-meister creditedwith improving the public image of prickly Attorney General DickThornburgh, last week left ...
N. Providence, teachers reach tentative pact
Sep 01, 1991; ...PROVIDENCE -- North Providence school officials and union leadersreached a tentative agreement yesterday during last-minute teachercontract negotiations expected to continue through the weekend. Contracts remained unsettled in nine other Rhode Islanddistricts, and negotiators ...
Talking with Harvard people
Sep 01, 1991 ... An occasional listing of works by area authors and/or of particular local interest. Peter Costa, whose illuminative interviews with Harvardluminati appear regularly in the Harvard Gazette, has collected theseconversations in "Q & A: Conversations with Harvard ...
Women on the edge of adventure
Sep 01, 1991; ...Capsule reports on recent books of interest to the traveler. These days, some of the world's most intrepid adventurers arewomen. From the southermost tip of South America to the Alaskanwilderness to the oceans of the world, they can be found living lifeon the ...
Viking ships will call on Boston
Sep 01, 1991; ... The Vikings are coming to Boston. The Gaia, an authentic reproduction of a 9th-century Gokstadlongship, will sail into Boston Harbor on Sept. 11, along with twoother Viking ships, the Saga Siglar and The Oseberg. Their arrivalwill be followed by a two-day celebration of ...
For Gov. Wilder: problems, problems
Sep 01, 1991; ... PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- Vernon Braswell was not Doug Wilder's onlyproblem, but he was a start. Braswell, 72, retired after 20 years as a paratrooper and morethan that as an American history professor, waited at Market Squarehere last week to meet Wilder, the Democratic governor of his ...
School reform accelerates in Vermont Topping the list: improved teacher training, higher-ed partnerships, local control
Sep 01, 1991; ... MONTPELIER, Vt. - Vermont Education Commissioner Richard P. Millssays he spends a lot of his time asking the people in his state"nasty questions" about school reform. "What do you want for your children?" is one of the big ones. And in his visits to communities across the ...
BREAD AND ROSES LABOR DAY HERITAGE FESTIVAL --
Sep 01, 1991 ... Singer-songwriter Claudia Schmidt, folk singer Si Kahn andcajun/zydeco bands the Boogaloo Swamis and Ibrahima's World Beat arefeatured in tomorrow's free annual festival in Lawrence. More than30 folk artists representing various ethnic traditions will performin honor of this year's ...
VOICES- struggling to be heard Black women directors vow to tell women's stories in their movies
Sep 01, 1991; ... Almost as long as there have been films, there have been blackwomen in films. Wide-eyed Louise Beavers donned an apron and flippedflapjacks in the 1934 tearjerker "Imitation of Life." Perkypickaninnies leapt about gleefully in "Green Pastures." ButterflyMcQueen squealed when faced with ...
THE X FACTOR Debate rages over how the leader should be remembered
Sep 01, 1991; ... NEW YORK -- Malcolm X. The black shining prince, the prophet ofrage. His defiant portrait graces thousands of T-shirts, pendantsand jackets worn by black men and women. The letter X emblazoned onbaseball caps has become as popular as the design of any major leaguebaseball club. His ...
POP-UP PEN PALS --
Sep 01, 1991 ... Take the most beguiling aspects of the pop-up book (3-D truths),add stunning visuals such as the one above and a page-turner of astory, and you have "Griffin & Sabine: An ExtraordinaryCorrespondence" (Chronicle Books, $16.95). Told through postcardsand letters ...
Forget power lunches - this CEO does the cooking
Sep 01, 1991; ...Many managers may be familiar with the carrot-and-stick approachto dealing with employees, but the chief executive officer ofAdvanced NMR Systems Inc. is more likely to use the lobster roll andgarlic bread approach. Rather than depending on corporate meetings and power lunches ...
News in the workplace
Sep 01, 1991; ...Just because your child graduates at the top of her or his highschool class doesn't guarantee their success in the working world,according to Karen Arnold, assistant professor of education at BostonCollege. Arnold and co-researcher Terry Denny, a professor emeritusat the University of ...
Advisers' lists split over choosing the `best'
Sep 01, 1991; ... There are over 3,000 mutual funds for investors to choose from and,it seems, almost as many ways to pick the "best" fund. Beyond thesimple lists of best-performing funds that appear every three months,newsletters, financial advisory services and brokers all offer ideasand "systems" for ...
Retirement portfolio in order, but changes worth considering
Sep 01, 1991; ... Q. Could you ease my mind and tell me if I am planning for myretirement wisely? I am 45 years old and have only been putting awaymoney for the past five years. Here is how it is distributed: Three IRAs: Fidelity Magellan ($10,000), Fidelity Growth andIncome ($2,500), and ...
High hopes at `business New Year' But recession's grip makes picture less than all rosy
Sep 01, 1991; ...NEW YORK -- The stock and bond markets are brimming with highhopes as Wall Street marks the traditional "business New Year" atLabor Day. Stock prices have been hitting record highs, and interest ratesstand at or close to their lowest levels of the year. "Our sense is that ...
Home Equity Redux
Sep 01, 1991 ...The growing use of tax-deductible home equity loans as asubstitute for nondeductible consumer borrowing has received theattention of some members of the congressional tax-writingcommittees, and members and staff both warn that if lenders continuetheir aggressive marketing of these loans ...
Saving Up
Sep 01, 1991 ...According to a recent survey by the Denver-based College forFinancial Planning, the worst financial habit of their customers wasthe unwillingness to save adequately. The college notes that in thefirst quarter of 1991, consumer savings stood at only 4.1 percent,while financial ...
Buying HMOs
Sep 01, 1991 ...Salomon Brothers is bullish on investing in some HMOs in itsAugust stock research report. Its analysts recommend "exposure toselective HMOs with expanding market shares and strong ...