The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from December 1991:
Hello, Columbus
Dec 01, 1991; ...AFLOAT AGAIN: The "Christopher Columbus" project that began tosuggest a sinking ship after Timothy Dalton vacated the title role isafloat again. Producers Ilya and Alexander Salkind dramaticallyrestored its credibility by signing Marlon Brando to play GrandInquisitor Torquemada. How do ...
ALKERMES INC.: Crossing `blood-brain barrier'
Dec 01, 1991; ...It's certainly not the last frontier in neuroscience, but theso-called "blood-brain barrier" is a vital roadblock to efficient andsafe delivery of drugs to the brain. Alkermes Inc., a Cambridge-based biotechnology firm, is bettingthat it will be the first to create a technology to ...
Museums celebrate ruling that encourages art donors
Dec 01, 1991; ... WASHINGTON -- Art museum officials are jubilant over Congress'extension of a temporary tax break that produces a bonanza of giftsfrom wealthy art collectors. The House gave final congressional approval to a six-monthextension of a special tax provision that, during 1991 only, ...
Art books: pricey monsters and beauty from simple hands
Dec 01, 1991; ... First of two articles Publishers of art tomes keep churning out megabooks formegabucks, the biggest this year being Knopf's $1,000 "The SistineCeiling," a two-volume set written by Frederick Hartt, FabrizioMancinelli and Gianluigi Colalucci, and hyped like Charlton ...
The wry, common tongue of wisdom
Dec 01, 1991; ... WILDERNESS TIPS By Margaret Atwood. Nan A. Talese / Doubleday. 227 pp. $20. The women who prowl through Margaret Atwood's stories are a lotlike third cousins who've never met: They come from different worlds,live a thousand miles apart, and yet they all speak ...
A stray bullet, a familiar story
Dec 01, 1991; ... "She got up from the table to get a piece of turkey," IsmaelPedraza was saying yesterday. "She was talking to me while she didthis. Then she came back and sat down next to me. We kept talking.I forget what we were talking about because we heard these shots. Onthe fifth shot, she got ...
Mentally handicapped gain home in Billerica
Dec 01, 1991; ... BILLERICA -- Nearly 100 people, including Cardinal BernardLaw, celebrated the opening yesterday of Hesed House, a group homethat has been gutted and remodeled to suit the needs of mentallyhandicapped people. "There will be peace with this house and with all who will ...
BOOKMAKING
Dec 01, 1991; ... Had she lived, Anne Sexton would have been 63 last month. Herrecent biography by Diane Wood Middlebrook, eight weeks on The NewYork Times best-seller list, has prompted Houghton Mifflin toschedule for January release a new edition of "Anne Sexton: ASelf-Portrait in Letters," edited by ...
Poll gives poor marks to Bush on economy
Dec 01, 1991; ... WASHINGTON -- Only 18 percent of 500 Americans interviewedbelieve President Bush is doing a good job of handling the economy,according to a Time magazine-Cable News Network poll releasedyesterday. In the poll taken Tuesday of 500 adults, 74 percent said theyconsidered the ...
AS CALIFORNIA GOES... If a Democrat wants the presidency, he must have this state
Dec 01, 1991; ...WASHINGTON -- Since the last presidential election, Californianshave lived through war, plague, recession, earthquakes, drought, akiller freeze and a pestilent infestation by the Poinsettia whitefly. The accumulation of woes seems almost biblical in nature, yet nowthe residents of ...
A self-portrait -- about the hardest way possible
Dec 01, 1991; ... Nine-and-a-half times out of 10, a Bogen Superclamp does the jobasked of it. But this was the half time where it just couldn't beconvinced to fit. At least not in the narrow time window allotted byan assignment for the Globe's New Hampshire weekly section. The assignment to ...
DEARS ON ICE --
Dec 01, 1991 ... Three members of the Skating Club of Boston, (from left) KristenGriffin, 7, Tessa Woodnick, 8, and Stephanie Niloff, 7, ...
FATAL PILEUP --
Dec 01, 1991 ...Cleanup crews work to clear a section of Interstate 5 yesterdayin Coalinga, Calif., where a blinding dust storm ...
TORNADO'S PATH --
Dec 01, 1991 ... The remains of three homes are scattered across a Springfield,Mo., neighborhood yesterday in the wake of a rare ...
HOSPITALIZED --
Dec 01, 1991 ... Robert Pilatus, 27, half of the disgraced pop duo Milli Vanilli,was taken for observation after an apparent suicide attempt yesterdayat a ...
Huntington takes its `Carol' downtown
Dec 01, 1991; ... While hoping to establish a downtown holiday event with its ownproduction of "A Christmas Carol," the Huntington Theatre Companyknows it's taking something of a chance in setting up shop at theWilbur rather than within its well-recognized space at the BostonUniversity ...
Citrus Hills: No fun in the sun N.E. buyers say developer hasn't lived up to promises
Dec 01, 1991; ... Red Sox great Ted Williams has been saying it for years: Come ondown and enjoy "your place in the sun" in the Florida development ofCitrus Hills. Thousands of New Englanders have heeded his siren song. Butlately some unhappy buyers, like Salvatore and Barbara Seminatore ofWest ...
CORRECTION
Dec 01, 1991 ...CORRECTION: The directions to the Bayberry Meadows Tree Farm inPrinceton in the Nov. 24 Travel section were incorrect. Thedirections are: Follow Interstate 190 to Route 140 North to ...
Consumers paying down debt at record rates
Dec 01, 1991; ... NEW YORK -- In an abrupt about-face, American consumers whobinged on credit for a decade are now doing whatever they can toshrink their debt. If the passion of the 1980s was to tone up the body, the passionof the 1990s is to shape up the personal balance sheet. Numbers showthat ...
Croatia fighting flares; UN envoy to arrive today
Dec 01, 1991; ... ZAGREB, Yugoslavia -- Fighting intensified in Croatia yesterdaydespite the latest cease-fire. Yugoslav army cannon pounded thestrategic target of Osijek, reportedly killing five people. Despite the upsurge in fighting on the sixth day of the truce, UNenvoy Cyrus Vance was ...
Conn. legislators seek plan to replace income tax
Dec 01, 1991; ... HARTFORD -- Now that the public has had its say andlegislators taken their Thanksgiving holiday, the General Assemblythis week will begin shaping a compromise budget package designed toreplace the state's controversial income tax. "We hope to have something to vote on by the ...
Connecticut priest campaigns against crude toys
Dec 01, 1991; ... HARTFORD -- A Hartford priest is crusading against toys thatooze green slime, have gooey runny noses or are otherwise gross. The Rev. Christopher Rose is urging parents not to buy toys hefinds offensive, some of which are marketed under such intriguingnames as: "Swamp Thing," ...
PHYS ED OFTEN GOES FIRST WHEN BUDGET AX FALLS
Dec 01, 1991; ... Across Massachusetts, public schools are struggling to keepembattered programs in physical education and athletics much the waya football squad scrambles for a fumbled ball. Faced with leanbudgets, however, and forced to make hard choices between academicson the one hand and fitness and ...
Device at track site turns out to be harmless
Dec 01, 1991; ... Fearing they had discovered a bomb just hours before thenational cross-country championships were to begin at White Stadiumin Roxbury, Boston city workers yesterday quickly summonedauthorities to the stadium, only to learn that the device washarmless. "I'm glad the ...
Duke aide says former Klansman will challenge Bush in some races
Dec 01, 1991; ... WASHINGTON -- Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, who lostthe Louisiana governor's race two weeks ago, plans to challengePresident Bush in several 1992 Republican primaries, a top advisersaid yesterday. "He doesn't count on winning the nomination or anything, but hewants ...
US law challenges patients to make plans for death
Dec 01, 1991; ... Beginning today, Americans admitted to virtually any healthcare facility in the country will be asked to consider how they wouldwant to die, and who should speak for them if they cannot when thetime comes. Even in a nation often obsessed with right-to-die court cases andthe ...
On the chicken line, people are treated like animals
Dec 01, 1991; ... Second of two partsAHOSKIE, N.C. - To talk about Perdue chicken is to talk aboutwomen urinating on themselves on the cutting line. Many workerscried when they saw it. They cry now in telling it again. The womenurinated after being refused a break."There was one woman ...
The leadership thing
Dec 01, 1991 ... President Bush is in trouble because the American economy is introuble, and he shows limited capacity for dealing with the problemor even grasping its challenges -- and opportunities. The omnibustransportation bill that finally reached his desk on Wednesdayillustrates perfectly the ...
Worst-case hazardous waste
Dec 01, 1991 ... Improved tools for addressing hazardous-waste sites will beavailable if the Legislature completes a restructuring of the state'sprogram under the Department of Environmental Protection. A billproviding for changes in Chapter 21, which governs the program,should be passed before the ...
Flynn praises Democrats' education reform proposal
Dec 01, 1991; ... Mayor Flynn yesterday praised the education reform proposalunveiled last week by the Democratic leaders of the Legislature'sEducation Committee, saying it was "strong" and carried potential for"real reform." The committee's chairmen, Sen. Thomas Birmingham (D-Chelsea) andRep ....
Two years, one session
Dec 01, 1991 ... The failure of the Massachusetts House of Representatives to passa measure altering the structure of the Legislature's two-yearsession need not deter backers from renewing the effort -- yet again.The current practice of discarding all incompleted work at the end ofthe first year, ...
Holiday events scheduled downtown, at State House
Dec 01, 1991 ... Chanukah events will be held in Boston tomorrow andTuesday. Tomorrow, a ceremony will be held at the State House at 4p.m. when House Speaker Charles F. Flaherty and other legislativeleaders join Rabbi Rachmiel Liberman of Brookline in the lighting ofa 15-foot ...
Police arrest Everett man after two-hour standoff
Dec 01, 1991; ... EVERETT -- A two-hour standoff between a 28-year-old EastBoston man wielding knives and threatening to kill police officersand himself ended safely yesterday after police officials persuadedthe man to give himself up. The man, Anthony J. Vega, faces two charges of assault by ...
Citrus crop seen growing
Dec 01, 1991; ...WASHINGTON -- The Agriculture Department's first forecasts of UScitrus crops for 1991-92 point toward a 2 percent larger total cropthan a year earlier. Production of oranges, tangerines and limes is expected toincrease, while production of grapefruit, tangelos and lemons ...
Demand for flu vaccine limits availability; new supply sought
Dec 01, 1991 ... report. Fears of a widespread flu outbreak this winter have leftstate health officials scrambling to find new supplies of vaccine,which is being quickly used up by doctors and clinics. The federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta have predicteda more potent ...
Mayor renews call for fewer handguns
Dec 01, 1991; ... Reacting to the fatal shooting of a grandmother in Roxbury onFriday, Mayor Flynn yesterday faulted President Bush and Congress fornot taking steps designed to reduce the number of illegal gunsavailable in the country's major cities. "I'm calling for illegal guns to be taken off ...
Suffering a survivor's torment
Dec 01, 1991; ... A white patch covers the part of his face where Frank Foley's lefteye once was. A bandage is wrapped around his right forearm, and small pieces ofmetal are working their way out from under the skin of his righthand. "Physically, I'm fine," said the Boston police officer ...
Vary your categories and avoid duplication
Dec 01, 1991; ... Do you invest in a mutual fund whenever you read an articleabout how well the fund is doing or see a profile of a successfulfund manager? You probably don't do it every time, but some peopledo jump into the latest "hot" fund often enough that they now owndozens of funds. As a result, ...
TRAVEL GIFTS IT DOESN'T HAVE TO COST A LOT TO MAKE THE TRAVELER ON YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING LIST HAPPY
Dec 01, 1991; ...Travelers are great to have on your holiday gift list, becausetraveling involves so much stuff -- from basic luggage to portablealarm clocks, packable clothes, guidebooks, even possible cures formotion sickness. Some suggestions: - People serious about travel "finds" would ...
A fourth R to consider on Pearl Harbor Day
Dec 01, 1991; ...We are getting ready to celebrate the golden anniversary of adark day and images of the past are already oozing up like oil fromthe hulk of the USS Arizona. The Movietone News shots of Zeros and subs and ships in flamesare out of storage. There are interviews with survivors ....
THE GOSPEL SPIRIT CROSSES OVER
Dec 01, 1991; ...It was August, and Chicago's Pilgrim Rest Missionary BaptistChurch was smokin' in more ways than one. Rev. Matthew Thomas, 72years of spirit in his spine, had just finished a rather acrobaticSunday sermon, and the results were evident in every pew. Nurses'aides, uniformed in starched ...
The power of `Prayers' This AIDS project reflects a life of caring
Dec 01, 1991; ... Paper Prayers is such a remarkable idea -- a way for artists,galleries and the public to raise money to care for pediatric AIDSpatients -- that it stands to reason that the man who thought it upis remarkable, too. And Tom Grabosky is. A 44-year-old self-taught artist, curator, ...
The forbidden -- but safe -- medicine
Dec 01, 1991; ... Lester Grinspoon is associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. James B. Bakalar is a lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Of all the bad consequences of government harassment of marijuanausers, none is more tragic than the medical ...
Oil primer a must for plasterboard before papering
Dec 01, 1991; ...Q. How can I prepare a Sheetrock wall for wallpaper? Do I haveto size the walls first? Actually, it is Greenboard. And how can Ipaint a bathroom ceiling that has been newly Sheetrocked?B.F., SomervilleA. By Sheetrock I presume you mean plasterboard (or Greenboard, whichis ...
Investigators still seek public's aid
Dec 01, 1991; ... In contrast to the last time a Boston police officer was slain,police immediately sealed the site where Officer Jeremiah J. HurleyJr. was killed and Francis X. Foley was injured once the officerswere en route to the hospital. On the morning of Oct. 29, a painstaking search for ...
State may consolidate home-care offices
Dec 01, 1991; ...Consolidation of offices of home care corporations, whichprovide home care services to 33,000 elderly people in Massachusetts,are proposed as part of new state budget cuts offered by the Weldadministration. Seven of the 27 corporations, whose services allow ailing eldersto ...
Not much difference in buying shares in December or January
Dec 01, 1991; ... Q. I am considering buying shares in a mutual fund which has adistribution in December. The question is, should I buy now and getthe distribution in December? Or should I wait until January and buyit cheaper, thus getting more shares for the money? The person Italked to at the fund ...
Iran paper says captives from US may be free soon
Dec 01, 1991; ... NICOSIA, Cyprus -- An Iranian newspaper reported yesterdaythat one or two Americans could be freed from captivity in Lebanonwithin days, and a radio station said that all three US hostageswould be released by Dec. 9. The reports coincided with a new trip to the Middle East by ...
Klan leader visits city hit by cross burnings Speech in Dubuque, Iowa, protested
Dec 01, 1991; ... DUBUQUE, Iowa -- About 200 people turned out yesterday tocheer a national Ku Klux Klan leader who came to Dubuque in the wakeof at least 10 cross burnings in this mostly white city. Ten blocks away, about 250 people gathered at a rally the NAACPorganized to protest the cross ...
Why it pays to invest in poor people
Dec 01, 1991; ...More than anything else, the "Poor People's Budget" for fiscal1992 leaves no doubt that hundreds of thousands of people inMassachusetts have been hurt by the state's budget cuts this year. However, throughout the budget report there is another message:that maintaining, and even ...
When the going gets tough, an AWD Plymouth Voyager really delivers
Dec 01, 1991; ...Chrysler Corp. seems to be winning the Van War. The front-drivePlymouth Voyager/Dodge Caravan still offers the best all-aroundpackage for transporting people in numbers and goods in volume inreasonable comfort. The new all-wheel drive version of theVoyager/Caravan adds a measure of ...
Kerry Townsend is new addition to Kennedy clan
Dec 01, 1991 ... The Kennedy clan, taking cheer where possible in a difficulttime, increased its membership yesterday by one: a baby born a weekearly. Kerry Sophia Kennedy Townsend, eager to take her place as101-year-old Rose Kennedy's 25th great-grandchild, was born at 3:16a.m. yesterday at ...
Deaths of Kittery, Maine, couple investigated
Dec 01, 1991; ... KITTERY, Maine -- State Police detectives yesterday continuedtheir probe into the deaths of a husband and wife found after a firein their home, seeking to determine whether the case involved onemurder or two. "The scenario at this point is pretty much nailed down ...
The elements of style
Dec 01, 1991; ...How many times have you seen a movie's look or style brisklykissed off in a phrase or two toward the end of a review? Surely toomany to count. Whether reviews acknowledge it or not, genuine style is more thanskin deep, the "look" of a movie more than a question of grooming.It ...
Ukrainian rides far on campaign for independence
Dec 01, 1991; ... KIEV -- Even his critics admit that Leonid Kravchuk has barelymade a misstep in the campaign to elect the Ukraine's firstpost-Soviet president. A career Communist Party official -- not a class noted forsophistication or flexibility -- the sleek, smooth Kravchuk hasemerged in ...
Year 2000 -- joy or despair? Already, eyes are on the millennium
Dec 01, 1991; ...Anyone who has ever secretly knocked wood or started a diet onNew Year's Day knows how much pressure is building with the approachof the third millennium. Unlike Thanksgiving and Christmas, annualmilestones we tend to look back on with cozy reminiscence, New Year'sis a holiday we look ...
LOTS & BLOCKS
Dec 01, 1991; ... First aid for sick economy: Medical needs remain the backboneof most of local development activity. Work started earlier thismonth in Newton on a $12 million, 70,000 square-foot medical officebuilding at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, with the Northland InvestmentCorp. of Newton as ...
Edward G. Lund, 90 Retired headmaster of R.I. school
Dec 01, 1991 ... Edward G. Lund, a retired headmaster of Providence Country DaySchool, died Wednesday in Rhode Island Hospital. He was 90 and hadlived in Providence since 1934. Born in Boston, Mr. Lund graduated from Harvard University in 1923with a bachelor of science degree. He later received ...
SmartMoney and Worth prototypes aim at upscale baby-boomers.
Dec 01, 1991; ... Rule No.1 - Never launch a magazine in a down market. Rule No.2 - Never enter what seems an already crowded field. Rule No.3 - Never go up against the Big Boys. In an invitation to a recent preview party for Worth, a glossypersonal finance magazine, publisher Randy Jones ...
Panagiota Maxwell, 59 Was free-lance graphic designer
Dec 01, 1991 ... Panagiota (Darras) Maxwell, a free-lance graphic designer, diedof cancer Friday in the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInfirmary. She was 59 and a resident of Cambridge. Born in Lynn, Ms. Maxwell graduated from Simmons College in 1954with a major in publications. Ms ....
THE TRAGIC ART OF MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE
Dec 01, 1991; ... Sometimes you stumble against a life so terrible you wonder abouthuman endurance. Talking by telephone from Philadelphia, where she is headlining inthe national tour of "Lost in Yonkers" (which opens in Boston Tuesdayat the Shubert), Mercedes McCambridge wanders into personal ...
Changes proposed in Maine workers' comp regulations
Dec 01, 1991; ... AUGUSTA, Maine -- The McKernan administration is hopeful thatrule changes proposed by the state Insurance Bureau will persuademajor workers' compensation insurance carriers to drop, or at leastput off, their threatened withdrawal from Maine. The proposed changes, being ...
Morris Michelson, 88 Was lawyer in Boston
Dec 01, 1991 ... Morris Michelson, a lawyer in Boston for nearly 60 years, diedof cancer Friday at a hospice in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 88. He graduated from Harvard College in 1924 and Harvard Law Schoolin 1929 and practiced in Boston thereafter, primarily as a triallawyer, until he ...
Jordan's king says Israel is stalling
Dec 01, 1991; ... AMMAN, Jordan -- King Hussein, in an interview publishedyesterday, called Israel's request for a delay in the start of peacetalks unjustified and said its leaders are stalling because they fearpeace. However, the monarch also suggested that Jordan will continue totake a more ...
Tax alert
Dec 01, 1991 ...On the tax front: Home improvements made to prevent or ease amedical condition may be tax-deductible as a medical expense, saysthe United Retirement Bulletin, a Wellesley newsletter. However, youhave to be careful to separate the costs to meet the medical needfrom ordinary fix-up ...