The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from March 1992:
It's the year of the vampire
Mar 01, 1992; ...A BLOODY COINCIDENCE? Time to pull out those steel turtlenecks:The year of the vampire is upon us. In Francis Coppola's "BramStoker's Dracula," a toothy Gary Oldman is in love with Winona Ryder.In John Landis' "Innocent Blood," Anne Parillaud of "La Femme Nikita"is sucking mob hitmen ...
Asian family in Dorchester is robbed in home invasion
Mar 01, 1992; ... A Dorchester family was bound, gagged and robbed yesterday in thelatest of the city's string of home-invasion robberies of Asianfamilies, police said. The break-in occurred at about 10:30 a.m. in a home on DorchesterAvenue near Romsey Street, close to the scene of at least two ...
DIVE! DIVE! A trip 15 thousand(ths) leagues under the sea in Hawaii
Mar 01, 1992; ... HONOLULU -- There I was, 85 feet below the sea and face to facewith a moray eel. But I wasn't concerned. Heck, I wasn't even wet. That's because I was looking at the eel -- and hundreds uponhundreds of multicolored fish -- through the 3 1/4-inch-thickporthole of an Atlantis ...
For US auto makers, better isn't enough Japan's upgrades outpace Detroit's
Mar 01, 1992; ...It isn't as though America's Big Three auto makers haven't hadtheir share of major success stories the last few years. Chrysler hit big with its development of minivans and created alucrative market for sports utility vehicles with its Jeep Cherokee.Ford, near death in the early ...
Giving Roger what he needs
Mar 01, 1992; ... On the way to work yesterday, I stopped at a coffee shop where twoMBTA bus drivers were discussing whether Roger Clemens was a completejerk or just a dumb, spoiled kid whose IQ is 250 points lower thanWade Boggs' lifetime batting average. Their dispute was made moreamusing by the fact ...
Hoyas cuff BC Eagles get a chance but can't capitalize
Mar 01, 1992; ...LANDOVER, MD. - No double -overtime victory here. Although there remained an element of suspense when AlonzoMourning sat down with his fifth personal foul with 7:35 left and histeam in control of a tenuous 6-point lead, Boston College squanderedanother road opportunity. No. 18 ...
At Beth Israel, workers' ideas count for plenty
Mar 01, 1992; ...When Beth Israel's president first heard about a managementtechnique that values employees' opinions as much as the bottom line,he was skeptical -- and amused. Here was Mitchell Rabkin, head of a major nonprofit hospital inBoston, considering a new management idea that seemed, ...
Juneau sets deadline: He may be winging his way to Europe
Mar 01, 1992; ... Joe Juneau figures he'll have a contract by tomorrow afternoon,but he just can't figure where he'll be. "I'm a little lost right now," said Juneau, reached by phone inPont Rouge, Quebec, late yesterday afternoon. "And if I'm not signed{in Boston} by {tomorrow} afternoon, then I ...
BOOKMAKING
Mar 01, 1992; ... When Boston lawyer Maxwell E. Foster, a lifelong Shakespeareanscholar, died in 1984, he left among his papers a study of the FirstQuarto of "Hamlet." Since its rediscovery in 1823, most scholarshave dismissed the Quarto as a piracy or a hasty abridgment forprovincial theater audiences ....
Balancing Boston's books Guile, talent, luck keep capital city in the black
Mar 01, 1992; ... Michael Rezendes is the Globe's City Hall bureau chief. It's no secret that hard times in the Northeast are sendingtremors of instability through every level of government -- from theWhite House to state capitals to local city halls. In New Hampshire,President George Bush was ...
Holyfield senior tour grows old
Mar 01, 1992; ...Fortunately for heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, JackDempsey and Joe Louis are no longer available to fight him, becauseif they were still breathing, Shelly Finkel would be trying to makethe match. "Hey, so the guy's 72. Does that mean a man is finished?"Holyfield's ...
One for the books Private group seeks to raise $16m to supplement library budget
Mar 01, 1992; ...The Boston Public Library evokes different images for differentpeople. It is part museum, part architectural and historical wonder,part toddler story-hour venue, part refuge for the homeless. It ispart of the city's identity. Tomorrow, a newly formed foundation will begin trying ...
At Bridgeport, school may be out Bell is tolling for college and its sports
Mar 01, 1992; ...BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Bruce Webster is telling horror stories thatmay very well turn into ghost stories before the end of the month.He is telling what it is like to coach a basketball team at a schoolthat has no money, that is so much in debt that not only is theprogram in jeopardy, but ...
Good and bad points Bourque gets the 1,000th of his career as Bruins struggle to a tie
Mar 01, 1992; ... Ray Bourque took one more giant step toward the Hall of Fameyesterday with his 1,000th career point. In truth, his plaque is inToronto already, only awaiting the final statistics, and total numberof Norris Trophies (now four and counting), to be filled in beneathhis ...
Grand prediction by Bourque Veteran called milestone, then went out and reached it
Mar 01, 1992; ... Ray Bourque told his wife, Chris, as he was leaving for the gamethat yesterday was the day he was going to reach the 1,000-pointmark. But he got even more precise in his predictions as the gameagainst the Capitals wore on. In the third period, Bob Carpenter thought Bourque ...
Bush camp seeking to force Buchanan out of race
Mar 01, 1992; ...WASHINGTON -- President Bush's top advisers, increasinglyconcerned that Patrick Buchanan's attacks could harm Bush'sreelection chances in November, plan to use hardball tactics todissuade Buchanan from continuing his campaign if he does not dropout voluntarily within a month, according ...
MOVIE MEMORIES
Mar 01, 1992 ...With great richness of image and character as raw material, afilm director's memoirs usually make lively reading. That tendencyis demonstrated again in "Fred Zinnemann: An Autobiography"(Scribner's, $24.95), an eyewitness account of 50 years ofmoviemaking. With spicy text and hundreds ...
Bush, taking on rival in Georgia, stresses conservatism
Mar 01, 1992; ... ATLANTA -- President Bush, facing a fierce challenge from PatrickBuchanan in the Republican primary Tuesday in Georgia, stressedconservative themes yesterday at a state party luncheon. The president concentrated on such issues as his support forvoluntary school prayer and for ...
David Byrne comes back -- peppy and nasty
Mar 01, 1992; ... A couple of years ago, Spy magazine published a wicked cartoonthat served as a great piece of rock criticism. It had two earnest,intrepid musical explorers foraging in the wilds, searching outforeign, exotic rhythms, peering out of the bushes with magnifyingglasses. And so it happened: ...
Making it in the photography business -- literally
Mar 01, 1992; ... Mike Kirk and his son Jeff escaped the February cold of theirIndiana home and fled to Sanibel Island, Fla., for two weeks ofworkshop teaching with nature photographer Larry West and some naturephotography of their own. Part way down a trail at the Ding Darling National Wildlife ...
UN-COMMON OUTING
Mar 01, 1992 ...Dave Weider of Hanover, N.H., charges into a flurry ofmachine-made snow yesterday on Boston Common, where the ...
HISTORICAL JAUNT
Mar 01, 1992 ... Celeste Gentes of Brockton passes a mural crowded with illustriousfigures of the past, adorning the side of ...
RECALLING TIANANMEN
Mar 01, 1992 ... Nearly 300 demonstrators hold a vigil in Hong Kong yesterday,marking 1,000 days since June 4, 1989, ...
OFF TO A ROLLING START
Mar 01, 1992 ...Samba dancers fill two antique cars on Rio de Janeiro's RioBranco Avenue yesterday, leading a parade to launch the city'sCarnival '92 ....
2 on `Spenser' set convicted of theft
Mar 01, 1992; ...Two workers on the set of "Spenser for Hire" have been convictedon charges in connection with the theft and destruction of cars, oneof which was blown up in an episode of the television show, officialssaid. Richard Murray, 51, of Somerville, and Paul Loder, 40, ofMelrose, were ...
There'll be new look tonight
Mar 01, 1992; ... WALTHAM -- Only four months late. Tonight, barring the unforeseen, Celtics coach Chris Ford willhave, for the first time this season, his full complement of players. It may not be a playoff-ready outfit, but with the expectedactivation of Larry Bird for the game against Dallas, ...
Courts sued for abused child delays
Mar 01, 1992; ... The state's public defenders agency has filed a lawsuit to forcethe district courts to hold speedy trials for hundreds of childrenwho have remained in temporary state custody for years due tounresolved complaints of parental abuse or neglect. Beyond the legal issues involved, the ...
Christian Science borrowing stirs alarm
Mar 01, 1992; ...A prominent opponent of the Christian Science church's fiscalpolicy yesterday expressed alarm and disappointment at the decisionof the church's board of directors to balance overspending inbroadcasting operations by taking money from its pension fund and therestricted endowment of its ...
Police say 2 stole clams in S. Boston
Mar 01, 1992; ...Two men stole $10,000 worth of clams Friday morning from a SouthBoston seafood company, police said. Police said John F. Bryant, 24, and Charles H. Knights, Jr., bothof South Boston, drove off a pickup truck with 126 five-gallonbuckets of clams in the back from the New England ...
Ex-court aide gets jail in drug case
Mar 01, 1992; ...SALEM -- A former Salem Superior Court clerk said he wasdepressed about being HIV-positive and was intoxicated when he stolethousands of dollars worth of heroin and cocaine last April from theevidence room at the Salem Superior Courthouse. Brian P. Burns, 35, of Peabody, pleaded ...
Green a marked man
Mar 01, 1992; ... WALTHAM -- The Celtics will put Rickey Green on the injured listtoday, making room for Larry Bird's return. Unless Green wentone-on-one with sushi last night, he is healthy. Green, who missed the Utah game last week with a stomach bug aftereating sushi for the first time, had not ...
Privatization: death knell for public schools?
Mar 01, 1992; ... Public schools may be signing their own death warrants. Unlessthey can turn around an image that is increasingly negative, themovement toward privatization will grow and could eventuallyundermine a system that has been an American triumph since schoolswere first opened 350 years ago -- ...
James M. Colarusso, 82 Owned Everett shoe-repair shop
Mar 01, 1992 ... James M. Colarusso, proprietor of Jimmy's Shoe Hospital on WestStreet in Everett for more than 60 years, died Saturday of bonecancer at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital in Melrose. He was 82 and livedin Everett. Born in New Hampshire, Mr. Colarusso grew up in Italy and moved ...
Plan to protect wetland outlined But Weld effort dismissed as ploy
Mar 01, 1992; ...WORCESTER -- Even as Gov. Weld's environmental protectioncommissioner announced what he called a major new wetlands-protectionplan, the Democratic chairman of the Legislature's environmentalcommittee said yesterday Weld has no environmental policy beyond"smoke and mirrors." ...
CORRECTION
Mar 01, 1992 ...EDITOR'S NOTE: Today's Your Home magazine, which contains a storyabout the Maine ...
WEEI scoring direct hit All-sports format on the mark in attracting target audience
Mar 01, 1992; ...The all-sports format on WEEI will be six months old Tuesday, andthe station has achieved its goal of separating itself from Boston's30 other radio outlets. WEEI ranks 13th in overall audience but isthird among male listeners between 25 and 54, a key advertisingtarget, and probably is ...
Reed worth shaken
Mar 01, 1992; ...WINTER HAVEN, Fla. -- Jody Reed arrived yesterday, right on time.Reed was the final Red Sox position player to report for duty and hewaited until the day when position players were required to report.Veteran Sox watchers that we are, we had to ask if this might besome kind of ...
Democrats, at debate in Colo., hit Tsongas over nuclear energy
Mar 01, 1992; ... DENVER -- A Democratic debate here yesterday erupted into afree-for-all in which Paul Tsongas was repeatedly battered by hisfour rivals, including an acerbic exchange in which Tsongas accusedGov. Bill Clinton of having lied about him. Clinton began the verbal donnybrook near the ...
A sick nation
Mar 01, 1992; ... The United States can boast about its triple bypasses,chemotherapy, incubators and Rescue 911 TV miracles. On childimmunization, we yield the floor to Uganda. In war, we beat Iraq. In peacetime, Iraq beat us in giving outpolio vaccines to infants. We are smug at Eastern ...
Before the next storm
Mar 01, 1992 ... Owners of storm-damaged property on Scituate's Peggotty Beach areunderstandably cautious about proposals that the town -- with stateand federal funds -- buy them out before the next coastal stormcrashes ashore. But if there remains some concern about putting together a buy-outon ...
Weld aides are said to slow filling of post
Mar 01, 1992; ... Weld administration officials were behind a move last week thatdelayed the appointment of a new state education commissioner and areseeking to create an opportunity for a candidate who was not afinalist in the months-long search, sources said. At the Board of Education meeting on ...
This is her life Nora Ephron talks about directing her first film - and about the personal history that colors it
Mar 01, 1992; ... Words like "bossy" and "scary" seem to foam up in Nora Ephron'swake, wherever she travels. As a New York Post reporter in her 20s,and later as an essayist for magazines such as Esquire and New York,she widened many an eye with her dry, tough-minded observations. Herchutzpah, glimpsed ...
Saddam's US suppliers
Mar 01, 1992 ... It has long been known that the Reagan administration tiltedtoward Saddam Hussein during his war against Iran and that Americanaid continued to flow to Baghdad after the Iran-Iraq war ended inAugust 1988. What has come to light now, thanks to a three-part report in theLos ...
Taxing minuet
Mar 01, 1992 ... First things first. That sentiment governs Congress these days,where the uppermost issue in the minds of many of its members ispresidential politics. Small wonder that the budding campaign is themost important factor in the consideration of tax legislation andthat virtually no step is ...
College acts to curb unisex organizations
Mar 01, 1992; ...BRUNSWICK, Maine -- Bowdoin College, in a move that appears toestablish a new front line in the skirmish over the role offraternities and sororities on modern campuses, has proposed that nostudent be allowed to belong to a single-sex fraternity orsorority. And while other ...
Changes prompt need to give proxies closer look
Mar 01, 1992; ... In The Fidelity Guide to Mutual Funds, published by FidelityInvestments with Simon and Schuster in 1990, you will findinformation on money market funds, short selling, commodity funds andhundreds of other topics. But don't look for anything on proxies,those statements asking shareholders to ...
Gender bias: a textbook case
Mar 01, 1992; ... Thousands of schools are still using books that are biased againstgirls and women, largely because budgets today are so tight thatschools cannot afford new texts, according to Wellesley Collegeresearcher Peggy McIntosh. The budget crunch is slowing attempts by school systems to ...
Haverhill explodes in 2d half, upends Latin
Mar 01, 1992; ... Boston Latin's glorious season, which took 21 games to build,unraveled in only 3 minutes 30 seconds. Boston Latin had slowed the pace to its liking and was positionedto win at intermission. But Haverhill turned the speed to 78 r.p.m.,and Boston Latin couldn't keep ...
The scientific parsing of fatherhood
Mar 01, 1992; ...About a dozen years ago, a California entrepreneur went into thebusiness of producing or, rather, reproducing whiz kids. He opened asperm bank for Nobel Prize winners in the hope of propagating ageneration of geniuses. He called it the Repository for Germinal Choice and I called ...
Gray vows he'll rejoin Red Sox before spring is out
Mar 01, 1992; ...TAMPA, Fla. -- When he started climbing back from a stroke lastfall, Jeff Gray couldn't even grip a baseball. Today he's firing fastballs at nearly 70 miles an hour. And theRed Sox righthander says his rehabilitation is going so well he can"guarantee" he'll make it to spring ...
Donald Hall: quiet poet, bold voice
Mar 01, 1992; ... WILMOT, N.H. -- It's easy to drive right on through this sleepyhamlet, especially on a day when a stubborn fog obscures thefarmhouses with the For Sale signs and the empty guesthouses withoff-season rates. But a few miles past the Andover post office, awarm hearth beckons in the white ...
Think twice before painting fireplace brick
Mar 01, 1992; ... Q. I would like to paint my fireplace bricks. Is there anythingspecial that I should do?G.C. MITCHEL, Charlotte, N.C. A. If you haven't already painted your fireplace, I would thinktwice about it, because if you ever want to restore the red brick, itis very difficult. But if ...
Harkin's hope is in Tuesday caucuses Minnesota seen as his best bet
Mar 01, 1992; ... WASHINGTON -- After two disappointing primary performances, Sen.Tom Harkin of Iowa will be fighting to keep his presidential campaignalive when eight states hold primaries or caucuses on Tuesday. He islooking to Minnesota as his best hope. Lorraine Voles, Harkin's campaign ...
Harvard doesn't get shut out of ECAC title
Mar 01, 1992; ... CANTON, N.Y. -- It wasn't the ideal time for Harvard to go 0-2,needing to win just one game in the North Country, but the Crimsonsurvived, copping the ECAC top spot that it possessed nearly theentire season. Maybe this is an appropriate time for Harvard rooters to looksouth and ...
Edward S. Hicks, 74 Retired from General Electric
Mar 01, 1992 ... Edward S. Hicks, an employee of General Electric for 50 years,died Friday in Salem Hospital after suffering a stroke. He was 74and a resident of Lynn. Mr. Hicks was born in Lynn and attended Lynn English High Schooland Coyne Electrical School. During World War II he served ...
Allan B. Igo, 70 Retired executive
Mar 01, 1992 ... Funeral services will be held Tuesday in New Providence, N.J., forAllan B. Igo, a retired executive, who died Friday in Morristown(N.J.) General Hospital after a short illness. He was 70. Born in Arlington, he was a graduate of Arlington High School andattended Bentley College ...
APARTMENT INVESTMENT Stable rents, vacancies make good apartment buys
Mar 01, 1992; ... The success of a Back Bay apartment block is a sign that themarket for apartment complexes in Greater Boston is rebounding, ifslowly, observers say. The 74 units of Garrison Square on Garrison Street near CopleyPlace, were completely rented before the complex opened ...
Robinson to the rescue
Mar 01, 1992; ... The movement to keep state Rep. Timothy O'Leary of Melrose out ofprison has picked up an unlikely ally: former House Republican LeaderWilliam G. Robinson. Although Robinson, a fellow Melrosian,campaigned for O'Leary's GOP opponents, he said he thinks prison timefor the 46-year-old ...
Pulling the trigger
Mar 01, 1992; ... Critics who refer to Beacon Hill politicians as The Gang ThatCouldn't Shoot Straight now have some more ammunition. In an effortto change the minds of gun-control advocates, gun lobbyists set upexhibits in the Great Hall of the State House last week on huntingand firearms -- including ...
Different region, similar story
Mar 01, 1992; ... PEBSCO, which has become an acronym for political influence inMassachusetts after its long, charmed run of business with formerstate treasurer Bob Crane, is at it again in a differentjurisdiction. In Massachusetts, the Public Employee Benefit Service Corp. hashandled an ...
Mitsubishi LRV roomy and wind-sensitive; wintering in a Subaru SVX
Mar 01, 1992; ... What, I was thinking, do people do at a Groundhog Day party? Ihad never been to one. But an invitation to trek from Boston toMillbrook, N.Y., on a cold Sunday morning provided a goal and coursefor the week's test drive. And, of course, the hosts, Betty andAbbott Smith, are ...
New Englanders leap over an extra day to celebrate
Mar 01, 1992; ... Yesterday was that freak of modern time-keeping, the day that putsthe leap in Leap Year. The quadrennial oddity was observed withaplomb in many parts of New England. In Windsor, Vt., Alton Kennedy Jr., 25, a logger from Farmington,Maine, and New Hamsphire cosmetologist Becky Foss, ...
LOTS & BLOCKS
Mar 01, 1992; ... Mirror mirror on the wall. Quickie quiz: Which real estatecompany is the largest, independently-owned firm in the state --Hunneman & Co. , DeWolfe New England, or Jack Conway & Co.? Answer: All of the above, if you ask them separately.Conflicting claims have ruffled feathers ...
Slayings in US add to unease in Japan Random murders, or rising malice?
Mar 01, 1992; ... NAGOYA, Japan -- Shock over the Feb. 18 slaying in Boston of IwaoMatsuda, the president of Chukyo University, has subsided, but anewer, darker fear of perceived American malice toward Japan hastaken its place -- a fear exacerbated by the murder of a Japanesebusinessman in California last ...
Analysts say glare may hurt Mavroules
Mar 01, 1992; ... of this article.Although the federal investigation of US Rep. Nicholas Mavroulesappears preliminary, analysts say the blitz of attention may havealready taken a toll within the realm of public opinion far harsherthan authorities will ever exact in a court of ...