The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from July 1994:
A neighborhood cafe comes to Brookline
Jul 01, 1994; ...What's new? Zuzuz. Or at least it will be soon, when therestaurant opens in mid-August in Brookline. Susan Chused Still andMaggie McNally, well-known for their former Venus Seafood in theRough on Northern Avenue, are returning to shore with an Americanneighborhood cafe on Harvard Street ...
No Maradona, no win for Argentina
Jul 01, 1994; ... DALLAS -- There were 22 men running around the Cotton Bowl lastnight, but the story of the game was the man who stayed in his hotel. Diego Armando Maradona, Argentina's captain and spiritual leader,was thrown out of the World Cup tournament yesterday after flunking apostgame ...
Lawmakers vote to nearly double arts funding
Jul 01, 1994; ...State lawmakers voted yesterday to increase arts funding from$6.3 million to $12 million, nearly doubling the budget of theMassachusetts Cultural Council. The final version of the $16.3 billion budget for fiscal year 1995marked a reversal of fortune for the state arts agency, ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jul 01, 1994 ... Q. What is the principal source of drinking water for the residentsof Cape Cod? M.J., BrooklineA. The entire layer of freshwater -- from lakes, ponds, rivers,streams and groundwater -- beneath Cape Cod is an aquifer, awater-bearing bed of permeable rock, sand or gravel capable ofyielding ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jul 01, 1994 ... Q. What's the name of Vanna White's new movie? J.G., CohassetA. That's "Gypsy Angels," in which she plays an Atlanta stripper whofalls in love with a stunt pilot, played by Gene ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jul 01, 1994 ... Q. What's this device called GreenPlug being sold in hardware storesto save money on operating air conditioners? G.D., MansfieldA. Steve Ehli, spokesman for GreenPlug's manufacturer GreenTechnologies in Boulder, Colo., said that his company has stoppedmanufacturing the GreenPlug model sold ...
ASK THE GLOBE
Jul 01, 1994 ... Q. My grandfather died in Brighton in 1872. How would I find alist of newspapers published in the Boston area that might havecarried his death notice? S.S., SpringfieldA. "United States Newspapers in the Boston Public Library,Massachusetts Newspaper Program" is a catalog of ...
ASK THE GLOBE THE ADDRESS BOOK
Jul 01, 1994 ... For M.C., Worcester -- Susan Sarandon, c/o International CreativeManagement, Attn: Sam Cohn, 40 West 57th St., New ...
`Baby's Day Out' chokes on its own formula
Jul 01, 1994; ... BABY'S DAY OUT Directed by: Patrick Read Johnson Screenplay by: John Hughes Starring: Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Haley, Cynthia Nixon, Fred Dalton Thompson, John Neville, Matthew Glave, Adam Robert Worton, Jacob ...
Berlandi registers early as lobbyist Weld fund-raiser adheres to new law
Jul 01, 1994; ... Gov. Weld's chief campaign fund-raiser said yesterday he hasregistered with the secretary of state's office as an executivebranch lobbyist for the Bechtel Corp., a major contractor on theCentral Artery/ Third Harbor Tunnel project.Peter J. Berlandi, a business consultant and ...
What's a kid to do during a divorce?
Jul 01, 1994 ... Dear Beth: My mother and stepfather have been married a year and a half.They fight over the stupidest things! They have threatened to getdivorced four or five times, but until now they always kissed andmade up and got back together. Now I think they really are going todo it. I'm ...
State's Catholic bishops renew opposition to capital punishment
Jul 01, 1994; ... Saying they were responding to "mounting pressure" from politicalleaders trying to reinstate the death penalty, the state's fourCatholic bishops yesterday urged lawmakers to defeat the proposal,saying it "will feed into the escalating cycle of violence which allof us ...
Taiwan buys Patriots
Jul 01, 1994; ... RAYTHEON CO. said that Taiwan will buy its Modified Air DefenseSystem, a standard Patriot package. Taiwan becomes is the seventhnation to buy Raytheon air defense equipment ....
Insurance firms sold
Jul 01, 1994; ... GE CAPITAL WILL acquire all the insurance businesses of HarcourtGeneral for $400 million cash under an agreement announced yesterday.The companies hope the sale, which is subject to regulatory approval,will be completed by the end of the year. GE Capital, a whollyowned subsidiary of ...
Digital to close plant
Jul 01, 1994 ... DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP. said it would close a plant in Westfieldthat made computer housings and lay off 340 workers. The decisionis part of a strategy to stop manufacturing some parts it can obtainfrom outside sources, said ...
Today . . .
Jul 01, 1994 ... Commerce Department releases leading indicators for May. Aprilfigures were unchanged, but analysts expect an 0.1 percent increasein May. Construction spending for May will be ...
Blue Cross may transform itself to for-profit firm
Jul 01, 1994; ... Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts is consideringtransforming itself from a nonprofit to a for-profit company in orderto stay competitive in a changing national health care scene. "We're thinking about it," William C. Van Faasen, the insurer'spresident, said yesterday. "In ...
He was heavy, he's my brother
Jul 01, 1994; ... BROTHER SAM The Short, Spectacular Life of Sam Kinison By Bill Kinison with Steve Delsohn Morrow, 256 pp., $22 Sam Kinison -- a short, round mound of bile 'n' vitriol, along-haired, beret-sporting, trenchcoat-wearing former evangelistturned ...
Man sought in stabbing of woman
Jul 01, 1994 ... Brockton police are searching for a 26-year-old man whodisappeared Wednesday night after allegedly stabbing a woman 30 timesin his bedroom. Gerald A. Gregory Jr. of Central Street jumped from his windowwhen his mother walked in at about 8:45 p.m., interrupting thestabbing, said ...
James Brown in the '90s is just like the '60s
Jul 01, 1994; ... JAMES BROWN At: Harborlights, Wednesday night I love the '90s: quirky morals, upended ideals, questionabletaste, and the decade hasn't even reached its midway point. In the'90s, you have hawkish Paula Jones -- allegedly propositioned by ourGigolo-in-Chief -- as the ...
Weld waves veto threat over welfare
Jul 01, 1994; ... Gov. Weld yesterday warned that he may try to veto severalwelfare reform measures in the fiscal 1995 budget legislators senthim because they could "water down the system, as opposed totightening it up."Weld said he liked measures banning extra benefits forrecipients who have ...
Justices rule death row inmates entitled to US legal aid
Jul 01, 1994; ... HOUSTON -- In a move that extends the right to counsel for deathrow inmates, the US Supreme Court ruled yesterday that stateprisoners are entitled to government-funded lawyers to petitionfederal courts to review their death sentences. The ruling offers new hope to hundreds of ...
CBS, QVC near deal; stocks up
Jul 01, 1994; ... CBS Inc. and QVC Network Inc. pulled in high ratings yesterday, asthe stocks of both companies soared on news that they were close to adeal that would combine QVC's cable expertise with CBS' broadcastexperience. Investors and securities analysts, many of whom had been ...
Mellencamp climbs back
Jul 01, 1994; ... Stone Temple Pilots. Ace of Base. All-4-One. Suddenly these arethe new household names on the charts. Making a splash this week,though, is the veteran John Mellencamp. His "Dance Naked" album hasone of the dumber titles in memory ("there's big bucks in dumbingdown," a colleague says), ...
The Three Tenors: a major production
Jul 01, 1994; ...The Three Tenors reunite July 16 in the Los Angeles DodgersStadium. The concert by Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and LucianoPavarotti is the final event of World Cup USA 1994. Promoter TuborRudas modestly refers to the concert as "one of the landmark eventsmarking the close of the ...
NO MORE STUDENTS' DIRTY LOOKS
Jul 01, 1994 ... It's not that Lorenzo Grady (left) can't stand the thought ofclasses ending yesterday at the William Russell School in ...
Specialists debate carrot-stick style of US diplomacy
Jul 01, 1994; ... Specialists in crisis diplomacy and nuclear proliferation say thatin the recent Washington policy furor over how to curb North Korea'snuclear program, administration strategists exaggerated the coercivepower of the sticks they brandished -- economic and militarysanctions -- and ...
Two voices are the talk of the game
Jul 01, 1994; ... This is the story of two soccer announcers who could hardly befurther apart in style. They have two things in common: Both aredevotees of the game, and both are on a publicity roll because oftheir link to the World Cup. They are Univision's Andres Cantor, whose shouts of ...
4 people unhurt in copter crash off R.I. coast
Jul 01, 1994 ... Four people aboard a helicopter escaped injury when it crashedabout 500 yards off the coast of Jamestown, R.I., last night, a CoastGuard official said. The helicopter crashed into the water off Fort Wetherill about7:40 p.m., ...
None hurt in copter crash off R.I. coast
Jul 01, 1994; ... Three people aboard a helicopter suffered no injuries when itcrashed about 500 yards off the coast of Jamestown, R.I., last night,a Coast Guard official said. The helicopter crashed into the Narragansett Bay off FortWetherill State Park shortly before 7:40 p.m. It was floating on ...
The little guys make it an even field In the first round, underdogs gain on lumbering Europeans
Jul 01, 1994; ... The Saudis are in and the Colombians are out. If you want to sumup the World Cup in one sentence, there it is. The minnows, insoccer jargon, are gobbling the sharks. The Americans, who were out of the last Cup before anybody buttheir mothers knew they were there, will be meeting ...
`In Custody': Merchant the director has the right touch
Jul 01, 1994; ... IN CUSTODY Directed by: Ismail Merchant Screenplay by: Anita Desai, Shahrukh Husain (novel: Desai) Starring: Shashi Kapoor, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Sushma Seth, Neena Gupta, Ajay Sahni, Tinnu Anand Playing at: Brattle Theatre ...
Hobson is walking along firing line
Jul 01, 1994; ... He has become the story. He never wanted it this way, but that'sthe way it is. At the moment these words are being typed, ButchHobson still is manager of the Red Sox, but that may change and itmay change very soon. In the newspapers and on the sportscasts, every Red Sox victory ...
Earnhardt finally captures a pole at Daytona
Jul 01, 1994; ... DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Dale Earnhardt, the defending Winston Cupchampion, won his first career pole at Daytona International Speedwayyesterday when he bumped rookie Loy Allen from the top starting spotfor tomorrow's Pepsi 400. Earnhardt, who was knocked off the pole for the 1994 ...
`Artists/Visions': DeCordova at its best
Jul 01, 1994; ... 10 ARTISTS/10 VISIONS 1994 At: the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, through Sept. 11 One reason the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln is among the mostsuccessful in New England is that its mission is clear: The DeCordovaexists to collect and show the work of contemporary artists of ...
It's official: Maradona banned from tournament World-famous star tests positive for five substances
Jul 01, 1994; ... Material from the Associated Press was used in this report. DALLAS -- The talented but troubled Diego Armando Maradona ofArgentina, perhaps the best-known soccer player in the world, wasejected from the World Cup tournament yesterday for failing a randompostgame drug ...
Ailing courthouse to be aired out
Jul 01, 1994; ... The state agency overseeing the renovation of the Suffolk CountyCourthouse said yesterday it will open windows and run elevators inthe building this weekend in an attempt to flush out stale air thatemployees contend is making them sick. The Division of Capital Planning and Operations ...
Expert says drug enables athletes to perform better
Jul 01, 1994; ... Michael Grunwald of the Globe staff contributed to this report from Dallas. The drugs detected in Argentine superstar Diego Maradona's dopetest are ingredients found in common over-the-counter decongestantsthat mimic amphetamines and therefore can boost athletic ...
Michael Drummey, 89 Retired North Andover salesman
Jul 01, 1994 ... A funeral Mass will be said today for Michael F. Drummey, aretired salesman for Proctor and Gamble, who died Monday in PrescottHouse in North Andover. He was 89. Born in Norwood, Mr. Drummey lived in North Andover for the last55 years. After graduation from Boston College, he ...
Low road on the Golan Heights
Jul 01, 1994 ... In one crucial place, the Middle East, the policy of the Clintonadministration has been consistent, resolute and relativelysuccessful. To persevere as a cultivator of negotiated settlementsin the region, President Clinton will have to resist the challenge toa US peacemaking role that has ...
Strange bedfellows in Japan
Jul 01, 1994 ...The Mutt-and-Jeff alliance that has produced Japan's newest primeminister virtually guarantees continuation of a surprising trend inJapanese political life: more turmoil. It is worth noting, however,that two predicted results -- a drop in Japanese stock market pricesand a further ...
Curbing the trash
Jul 01, 1994 ... The biweekly recycling of newspapers in Boston has been a sourceof frustration for even the greatest fans of the printed page. Butstarting today, residents can expect more manageable paper work. The city, on regular trash days, will now offer weekly, insteadof biweekly, curbside ...
Casualties close to home
Jul 01, 1994 ...When Melissa Herlihy died Wednesday, she became the 10thMassachusetts woman to die this year as a result of apparent domesticviolence. At 17 years old she was also the youngest. Herlihy was shot, allegedly by her boyfriend, on Sunday as shelay sleeping beside her infant daughter ....
Minehan called favorite for Fed job
Jul 01, 1994; ... The Federal Reserve Board of Governors is reviewing a slate ofcandidates for president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston thatpits the high-profile front-runner against two surprise contenders. Cathy Minehan, one of three candidates whose names were sent bythe Boston Fed to ...
FIFA STATEMENT
Jul 01, 1994 ... Text of FIFA's statement regarding the positive drug test of DiegoMaradona: The representation of the Organising Committee for the FIFA WorldCup USA 1994 has deliberated on the doping case in the matchArgentina vs. Nigeria on 25 June 1994 in Boston and has reached thefollowing ...
Condition of two injured firefighters is upgraded
Jul 01, 1994; ... The condition of two Boston firefighters injured in last week'swarehouse blaze in Charlestown was upgraded yesterday to satisfactoryand the men were moved from the intensive care unit to regular beds. Darrell Johnson, 33, of ...
Bus drivers' gamble should cost them their jobs, MBTA panel says
Jul 01, 1994; ... A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority administrative boardyesterday recommended the firing of three bus drivers for gambling onauthority property. The board charged the men with playing cards formoney at the Charlestown garage. The employees had been suspended without pay ...
Rose Troche reels in a winner with `Go Fish'
Jul 01, 1994; ... GO FISH Directed by: Rose Troche Screenplay by: Troche, Guinevere Turner Starring: Turner, V.S. Brodie, T. Wendy McMillan, Migdalia Melendez, Anastasia Sharp Playing at: Harvard Square Unrated Rose Troche's "Go Fish" is ...
Raising funds and blisters 100 holes of golf to benefit Boys & Girls clubs offers thrills, spills
Jul 01, 1994; ...STOW -- Our tale begins on the first tee of Stow Acres CountryClub, the warmth and promise of a summer day wafting in the earlymorning breeze, the dew still thick on the grass, the birds singingtheir favorite songs. It ends 10 hours later on the green of the 100th hole played, ...
Charles Greenstein, 66 Owned auto school in Revere
Jul 01, 1994 ... Charles Greenstein, owner of Pleasant Auto School in Revere, diedWednesday in his home in Saugus. He was 66. Mr. Greenstein was born in Winthrop. He graduated from RevereHigh School and attended the University of Rhode Island. With the motto "Pleasant drivers are better ...
Evans reviewing judge's ruling on police conduct
Jul 01, 1994; ... Boston Police Commissioner Paul F. Evans is reviewing a SuperiorCourt judge's finding that a veteran homicide detective, along with aformer prosecutor, distorted evidence to convince a grand jury toindict Tarahn Harris for his alleged role in the 1991 double murderof Korey Grant and ...
Panel OK's health bill like Clinton's Senate group rejects financing and partisan gloves are off
Jul 01, 1994; ... WASHINGTON -- In a major win for President Clinton yesterday,Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee hung together andjammed through a health bill similiar to the plan he favors, overangry Republican objections.But the victory was tempered by a defeat in the Senate ...
Brown strokes again Freshman boat handily defeats Yale at Henley
Jul 01, 1994; ... The Brown freshman crew, which has taken the Eastern Sprints andthe Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta titles while goingunbeaten in each of the last three seasons, had little difficulty inits first race in the Henley Royal Regatta yesterday, defeating theYale lightweights by 2 ...
Thomas Hinckley, 50 Self-employed photographer
Jul 01, 1994 ... Thomas Morse Hinckley, a photographer, died of complications fromAIDS last Friday in St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City. He was50. Mr. Hinckley was born in Boston and raised in Acton. He graduatedfrom the University of Vermont and taught English at Thompson Academyon ...
`Dark Symphony' of independence
Jul 01, 1994; ...My annual alternative message for Independence Day is the poem"Dark Symphony," by Melvin Tolson. Tolson, who lived from 1898 to1966, was elected four times as mayor of Langston, Okla., and was apoet laureate of Liberia. "Dark Symphony," written for the AmericanNegro Exposition in 1940, ...
Joan Jett's basic rock values
Jul 01, 1994; ...Don't worry. Joan Jett still loves rock 'n' roll, and she'dsurely put another dime in the jukebox, baby, if she could find onethat took dimes and played records. Times may have changed, but Jett, 34, remains Ms. Rock 'n' RollBasic Values. She's on a small-club tour now that will ...
`Das Barbecu' will skewer Wagner off-Broadway
Jul 01, 1994; ... A musical parody of Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung" soundsfunny to begin with; funnier still under the title "Das Barbecu."And here it comes. "Das Barbecu" was commissioned and premiered at the Seattle Operain 1991. Like Wagner's all-encompassing myth, the word spread ....
Kennedy plans major ad campaign Foes say senator is running scared
Jul 01, 1994; ... In a move that his supporters say indicates he is taking hisreleection seriously but his foes say is a sign of panic, US Sen.Edward M. Kennedy is preparing to air more than $600,000 worth oftelevision ads this month.Michael Kennedy, the senator's nephew and campaign ...
Richard G. Kenney, 23 Was Bradford College student
Jul 01, 1994 ... Richard George Kenney of Hampton, N.H., a student at BradfordCollege in Haverhill, died Wednesday in Portsmouth Regional Hospitalfrom injuries sustained when he was struck by lightning while surfingat Jenness Beach in Rye, N.H., Tuesday. He was 23. Mr. Kenney was born in Boston ....
7-year-old missing in Haverhill
Jul 01, 1994; ... The mother of a 7-year-old Haverhill boy who has been missing fortwo days is asking the public for help in finding him while policehave arrested and charged her boyfriend with kidnapping. Daniel Rodriguez was last seen by neighbors at 5 p.m. Wednesday athis Winter Street home, said ...
A high-energy Liza Minnelli sparkles at Harborlights
Jul 01, 1994; ... LIZA MINNELLI At: Harborlights with Billy Stritch through tonight. An entertainer of Liza Minnelli's stature has seen almost everyconcert hall of significance, yet she still stopped her show lastnight to exclaim, "I'm really glad to be here. It's beautiful!" Tothe left ...
Names: Rangers offer MacTavish $1.6 million
Jul 01, 1994 ...The New York Rangers are offering veteran forward Craig MacTavisha hefty raise to stay with the Stanley Cup champions and pass up achance to coach in the NHL. The New York Post reported yesterday theRangers had offered MacTavish $1.6 million over two years. He made$550,000 last season ....
Montross ready to become Celtics' center of attention
Jul 01, 1994; ... Even in a sport of giants, Eric Montross strikes an imposingpresence. Yesterday the Celtics unveiled their No. 1 draft pick tothe media, and it was almost as if Mayor Menino were christening askyscraper. Montross can go eye to eye with Robert Parish, but he outweighsthe ...
Duds blow it for `Blown Away'
Jul 01, 1994; ... BLOWN AWAY Directed by: Stephen Hopkins Screenplay by: Joe Batteer, John Rice Starring: Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker, Stephi Lineburg Playing at: Cheri, suburbs Rated: R (violence, some ...
Batman takes on Penguins
Jul 01, 1994; ... Material from Globe correspondent Ellen O'Brien, wire services and other sources was used in this column. The Pittsburgh Penguins selected actor Michael Keaton andConnecticut Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. to serve on an advisory boardthat will help plan the team's future ....