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2cde16fa7da515ecc2f6adb03035f47b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-17-mn-9989-story.html | Army Sergeant Is Cleared of All Charges of Sexual Abuse | Army Sergeant Is Cleared of All Charges of Sexual Abuse
An Army sergeant was cleared Monday of all charges in the latest court-martial linked to accusations of sexual misconduct at this military training base.
Judge Gregory Varo cleared Staff Sgt. George W. Blackley Jr. of charges that included failing to obey a genera... |
d37444e98f04bdb862eb79637d6b29de | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-19-fo-10446-story.html | L.A. Really Is a Breadbasket | L.A. Really Is a Breadbasket
In response to “Department of New Jerkies” (Cookstuff, Dec. 8), I cannot stand by and watch our indigenous California foods constantly being attributed to other cultures. There is a pervasive attitude here in the Southland that there is no local culture, and that is not true.
When I was a c... |
d83d4d876574cc9826825b32f5a74a9b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-21-ca-11174-story.html | Both Queen and Worker B | Both Queen and Worker B
“I’m just trying to stretch 15 minutes out to 20 minutes,” Toni Braxton says of her fame. The sultry soul singer has an endearing way of underplaying her enormous success, which long ago surpassed the 15-minute mark.
Braxton is one of the hottest female artists in the competitive pop galaxy. Her... |
857dbecec8334b5d3c5314f05e655a6b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-27-ca-12818-story.html | Can Artists Run Their Own Spaces and Find ‘True.BLISS.’? | Can Artists Run Their Own Spaces and Find ‘True.BLISS.’?
Have you heard of Bliss? Not many people have--inside the art world or out. An alternative exhibition venue in a residential neighborhood in Pasadena, Bliss has been a well-kept secret these past nine years.
Artist Kenneth Riddle and a changing cast of cohorts, m... |
294698febf69d77534d34d60a6f20b4c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-31-ca-14282-story.html | The Money’s Where the Action Is | The Money’s Where the Action Is
Another year, another record, with the 1996 domestic box office totaling $5.8 billion, almost 9% over 1995. Two special-effects-driven vehicles--"Independence Day” and “Twister"--dominated the year, heading a Top 10 list that, in contrast to 1995’s family-oriented mix, contained five big... |
f93e041f732e7fd03f6ff28d42d174af | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-31-mn-14172-story.html | William B. Walsh; Launched Project Hope in Hospital Ship | William B. Walsh; Launched Project Hope in Hospital Ship
William B. Walsh, a physician who founded the first peacetime floating hospital--which later became Project Hope, an international medical relief organization--has died. He was 76.
He died of cancer at his home in Bethesda, Md.
Walsh founded Project Hope, which s... |
be692a399cc379f839856bd41c9d6ee0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-01-ca-14352-story.html | James Woods Is So Good at Being Bad | James Woods Is So Good at Being Bad
James Woods has a wild craving for a cigar, and he has sent a publicist to the hotel suite of Alec Baldwin, his co-star in “Ghosts of Mississippi,” with this message: “Tell Alec . . . if he doesn’t have one I’ll come down and beat the [expletive] out of him.”
Woods is, of course, pla... |
e655479961091dbfc0d38f89a937b1d4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-01-fi-14382-story.html | Samsung Loses Attempt to Acquire Fokker | Samsung Loses Attempt to Acquire Fokker
Samsung of South Korea lost a chance to revive its failed bid to take over Dutch aircraft maker Fokker when other airplane makers rejected its offer to form a consortium. The three proposed partners--Hyundai, Hanjin and Daewoo--have notified the South Korean government that they ... |
53c61ce718e7d5915aa1bf2e05bdcf0a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-09-mn-16749-story.html | Rep. Becerra’s Trip to Cuba Hits a Nerve | Rep. Becerra’s Trip to Cuba Hits a Nerve
The selection of Rep. Xavier Becerra of Los Angeles as chairman of the House Hispanic caucus Wednesday immediately sparked a controversy, as two Cuban American lawmakers angrily resigned from the group to protest the Democrat’s recent meeting with Cuban President Fidel Castro in... |
c6ab17e8ac0a60a402dac37d6a6dae49 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-12-bk-17740-story.html | Short Book, Long Apology : A JOURNEY TO THE RIVERS: Justice for Serbia.<i> By Peter Handke</i> .<i> Viking: 83 pp., $17.95</i> | Short Book, Long Apology : A JOURNEY TO THE RIVERS: Justice for Serbia.<i> By Peter Handke</i> .<i> Viking: 83 pp., $17.95</i>
For all the divisions that became apparent between their nations once the former Yugoslavia descended into war in 1991, Western European and North American intellectuals were remarkably united ... |
3de9f5569ddadf4a69150b5cb54f4576 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-12-ca-17773-story.html | In Brief | In Brief
A cool, sweet, cocktail-pop confection that never feels like a cream puff? Yes, mainly because singer Nina Persson has taken over half of the writing duties on the Swedish outfit’s third release, a suave mix of bachelor-pad quirkiness and earnest love songs. Demure yet sharp-shooting, Persson begs for lies on ... |
60d639e83f12c8e74fae753d577b6e38 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-14-fi-18349-story.html | Teleport to Buy Internet Provider Cerfnet | Teleport to Buy Internet Provider Cerfnet
Teleport Communications Group Inc., which is owned by a group of cable TV companies, said it will buy Internet service provider Cerfnet from General Atomics and its affiliates in a stock deal worth $66.4 million. Under the deal, New York-based Teleport would acquire General Ato... |
f8060064b8f550dea36122e095468aa6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-23-mn-21242-story.html | N.C. Jury Orders ABC to Pay $5.5 Million in Hidden-Camera Case | N.C. Jury Orders ABC to Pay $5.5 Million in Hidden-Camera Case
In a verdict that could limit undercover investigations by the nation’s journalists, a North Carolina jury Wednesday awarded Food Lion Inc. $5.5 million in punitive damages for an ABC News expose on how the grocery chain sold tainted meat and fish to unwary... |
483cc539ca4febaf3e242e8afd501328 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-24-ca-21479-story.html | A Heart-Tugger With a Czech Twist | A Heart-Tugger With a Czech Twist
At the beginning of the beguiling “Kolya,” a middle-aged bassist (Zdenek Sverak) is slyly lifting the skirt of his colleague with his bow as she’s singing “The Lord’s Prayer.” They are part of a quintet of musicians who perform at funerals at Prague’s vast Art Deco municipal crematory.... |
83787351b7d780d6d89cef9793d29102 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-26-mn-22388-story.html | Rep.'s Son Charged With Trafficking | Rep.'s Son Charged With Trafficking
The Drug Enforcement Administration arrested the son of Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-San Diego) earlier this month for allegedly flying an airplane loaded with more than 400 pounds of marijuana into a small airport near Boston.
Todd R. Cunningham, 27, a San Diego bartender, pleade... |
5685004e5139ba45b936a9f6f95fe3b1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-02-02-ca-24522-story.html | A MAN OF ‘ACTION!’ | A MAN OF ‘ACTION!’
The Dan Ireland story is pretty darn romantic. One of four children born into a middle-class Portland, Ore., family, he got bit by the movie bug at the age of 5 when his parents took him to the drive-in to see “Them!,” a horror film about killer ants. “I was in awe,” he recalls.
Ten years later, Irel... |
50420aa46f1e17d7a9e534369519cd11 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-02-05-sp-25595-story.html | Baiul Is Fined for Speeding; Drunk-Driving Charge Dodged | Baiul Is Fined for Speeding; Drunk-Driving Charge Dodged
Oksana Baiul, the Olympic champion figure skater who was driving in a 97-mph car wreck on Jan. 12, escaped prosecution on a drunken-driving charge Tuesday and was fined $90 for speeding.
Baiul, a 19-year-old Ukrainian who lives in Simsbury, Conn., was admitted to... |
65fdcdde70921983de64524bb857d9d6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-02-06-me-25996-story.html | An Invalid Equation | An Invalid Equation
Sen. Dianne Feinstein thinks it would be a good idea to have a joint U.S.-China commission that would trace “the evolution of human rights in both countries over the last 20 or 30 years.” On the surface, there’s nothing wrong with that idea. It’s the example of what the commission might consider tha... |
f78a7f70cae62301ef71a3550939db91 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-02-11-me-27890-story.html | 10 Troubled Crossings | 10 Troubled Crossings
Midday can be deceptive at the worst intersection in Orange County.
Cars line up along Moulton Parkway and wait patiently for the light to turn green at Laguna Hills Drive. And on any quiet winter afternoon, barely a rude horn is sounded.
Come rush hour, though, this Dr. Jekyll of an otherwise nor... |
04bb56716f0ed1f3393993c2e9b4aaf4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-02-13-ca-28403-story.html | A New World | A New World
“This man endured what most men cannot even contemplate,” Sidney Poitier says of the indomitable South African leader Nelson Mandela.
Poitier stars as the man who became an international symbol of freedom in Showtime’s “Mandela and De Klerk,” which can be seen Sunday. Shot on location in South Africa last y... |
f2f22f34ed52cb063e3f432807998a94 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-02-14-ca-28469-story.html | An Education for the Teacher in ‘Roses’ | An Education for the Teacher in ‘Roses’
“The Ramona Roses” are the girls at Ramona High School--more exactly the girls who educate Janet Borrus in East L.A. life. In this one-woman show at Theatre of Note, Borrus introduces us to her girls, but so superficial is her presentation that we never really know them as anythi... |
6b36760374c8ab659d1b16e81afd4671 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-02-15-ca-28827-story.html | A Radiant ‘Emma’ Finds Its Purpose | A Radiant ‘Emma’ Finds Its Purpose
Nope, not dead yet. The homage to Jane Austen in movies and television continues on the A&E; network with “Emma,” Sunday’s swell, nifty rendering of a novel that remains cheery almost throughout, despite its confluence of misunderstandings and miscalculations that lead to fiascoes.
Bu... |
4e017d1035a51cbce5998a1a8ff7c2ac | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-02-17-mn-29690-story.html | Ex-Officials in Mexico Tied to Drug Lord, Report Asserts | Ex-Officials in Mexico Tied to Drug Lord, Report Asserts
U.S. investigators tracing more than $9 million they seized from the Texas bank accounts of a former Mexican deputy attorney general in 1995 have linked him and the family of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to a Mexican drug trafficker, a Mexico City m... |
2962d77ceef22bd4ac4e6686628e0c1b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-02-23-mn-31595-story.html | Elohim City on Extremists’ Underground Railroad | Elohim City on Extremists’ Underground Railroad
Up seven miles of bad road, past no-trespassing signs nailed to blackjack oaks, sits a major stop on the right-wing extremists’ underground railroad.
It looks more like a low-rent trailer park. Ramshackle mobile homes and polyurethane huts sit willy-nilly on this Ozark mo... |
1d83dffc498cd22a9a144c7471fbab55 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-01-mn-33700-story.html | David Doyle; Actor on ‘Charlie’s Angels’ | David Doyle; Actor on ‘Charlie’s Angels’
David Doyle, a popular character actor easily recognized nationwide after his long-running role as Bosley on “Charlie’s Angels,” has died. He was 67.
Doyle, who lived in Encino, died Wednesday night of a heart attack, his agent Ginger Lawrence said Friday.
For the past several y... |
46d2d6319b099689eb183d83ecad773d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-02-bk-33853-story.html | An Impenetrable Man : AMERICAN SPHINX: The Character of Thomas Jefferson.<i> By Joseph J. Ellis</i> .<i> Alfred A. Knopf: 365 pp., $26</i> | An Impenetrable Man : AMERICAN SPHINX: The Character of Thomas Jefferson.<i> By Joseph J. Ellis</i> .<i> Alfred A. Knopf: 365 pp., $26</i>
Over the past 25 years historians and pundits have attacked Thomas Jefferson on several fronts. They have criticized his stance on issues ranging from civil liberties to states’ rig... |
4bab59b3249a5e5add899554409bf073 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-07-mn-35658-story.html | Times Wins Polk Awards for Music Industry, Fund-Raising Stories | Times Wins Polk Awards for Music Industry, Fund-Raising Stories
Times staff writer Chuck Philips has won a George Polk journalism award for his detailed accounts of the inner workings of the music industry, and a team of Times reporters has won a Polk award for tracing funding from Asian sources to the coffers of the D... |
d3bb410029e0239623da94809b11ce26 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-08-mn-36013-story.html | Scientists Find Undersea World of Antony, Cleopatra | Scientists Find Undersea World of Antony, Cleopatra
Standing on the corniche of this elegant but faded city, it is easy to visualize an ancient panorama:
To the left, built on a small island in the harbor past the Temple of Poseidon, was the palace of the Ptolemaic queen, Cleopatra, who became known as history’s most f... |
b727238c6761a443185c9947733b16a5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-09-me-36481-story.html | Ben Raleigh; Grammy-Winning Lyricist | Ben Raleigh; Grammy-Winning Lyricist
Ben Raleigh, 83, pop lyricist who won a Grammy for the Lou Rawls’ hit “Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing.” Raleigh’s prolific songwriting career included such hits as “Wonderful, Wonderful” recorded by Johnny Mathis. He also wrote the Ray Peterson hit “Tell Laura I Love Her” and the words to ... |
5aad29c3b3909fad1d3a3520851d307b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-10-mn-36728-story.html | Coming Home, Coming Out : Poet and Native Son Frank Bidart Creates Stir in His Return to Bakersfield | Coming Home, Coming Out : Poet and Native Son Frank Bidart Creates Stir in His Return to Bakersfield
Nearly 40 years after he left behind his father’s potato fields to become one of America’s most-acclaimed poets, Frank Bidart came home to Bakersfield last weekend to make peace with the past.
His poetry reading Saturda... |
402a91b3e188abebd73400889ace829e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-11-mn-37025-story.html | Hanoi to Pay S. Vietnam’s Debts to U.S. | Hanoi to Pay S. Vietnam’s Debts to U.S.
The government of Vietnam has agreed to pay off debts to the United States left by the defeated South Vietnamese regime, a step that could clear the way for normal trading relations between Washington and Hanoi, a senior administration official said Monday.
“We believe it is the ... |
fe01c87a198621020fc1d6c7ebc1fbf3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-15-mn-38557-story.html | U.S. Agents Seize Smuggled Arms | U.S. Agents Seize Smuggled Arms
U.S. border agents have seized two truckloads of military assault rifles and grenade launchers that were mysteriously smuggled into this country through the Port of Long Beach and were addressed to Mexico City, officials said.
The Mexican consulate said diplomats have been told the ship ... |
9bc9ca0f5fc396ec356f656481bbeb49 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-18-mn-39500-story.html | Packaged Meal’s Salt Level Poses Blood Pressure Risk, Doctor Says | Packaged Meal’s Salt Level Poses Blood Pressure Risk, Doctor Says
Lunchables, a package of meat, cheese and crackers sold by the Kraft unit of Philip Morris Cos., contains enough salt to raise blood pressure in certain laboratory rats and may pose a health risk to some humans, a Wisconsin physician said Monday.
Lunchab... |
375bf38c9569a2405758a72c6ce864bc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-20-ca-40343-story.html | Sleater-Kinney Doesn’t Miss Beat | Sleater-Kinney Doesn’t Miss Beat
Post-Liz Phair, post-Bikini Kill, post-Hole, you’d think that the rock world would have gotten used to women in its ranks. But on Tuesday at the El Rey Theatre, as the Portland-based trio Sleater-Kinney opened for the headlining Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, someone was waiting with cult... |
08e6638880247a91446bd17e3336f4fb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-23-bk-41062-story.html | IN THE MEMORY OF THE FOREST.<i> By Charles T. Powers</i> .<i> Scribner: 384 pp., $23</i> | IN THE MEMORY OF THE FOREST.<i> By Charles T. Powers</i> .<i> Scribner: 384 pp., $23</i>
The dwindling band of American correspondents who tell us about the world falls roughly into two categories. There are the parachute artists, who buzz around the globe to give us a quick gloss on an election here, a famine there an... |
0a6ddafb94190e7a1df4bb9033c7685c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-28-ca-43043-story.html | Religious Experience | Religious Experience
Walking in the footsteps of Bach and Handel is nothing new for Rick Wakeman. As a member of the British progressive-rock band Yes during the early 1970s, he literally helped key a new way of rocking that incorporated the grand sweep and instrumental virtuosity of classical music.
In Yes, and in a s... |
0fb0180d8840a75251bb7ba338ecbe9a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-29-ca-43107-story.html | Call It Father of ‘Sling Blade’: Video Rides Oscar’s Coattails | Call It Father of ‘Sling Blade’: Video Rides Oscar’s Coattails
Billy Bob Thornton, who this week won an Oscar for his “Sling Blade” script, has seemingly revealed every last detail about his life and the story behind the movie, including his past heart problems, failed marriages and battles with studio executives.
But ... |
6e1c807029bf53ecbf5f553cfd7dd82d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-04-me-45412-story.html | Car Kills Ex-UTLA Chief Helen Bernstein | Car Kills Ex-UTLA Chief Helen Bernstein
Helen Bernstein, former Los Angeles teachers union president and a candidate for a City Charter reform panel, was struck by a car and killed Thursday night as she was crossing Olympic Boulevard on the way to speak to a neighborhood association, police said.
Bernstein, 52, was lat... |
6f42e36e5c07ee970ba1c1b584f97c20 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-06-ls-45822-story.html | Galanos Gowns Dress Up Exhibit Opening | Galanos Gowns Dress Up Exhibit Opening
There are 71 creations in the retrospective exhibition “Galanos” celebrating the 40-year career of American couturier James Galanos at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. And surely there were as many more on the women who walked the purple carpet for the museum’s Costume Counci... |
41e1a2e77fa91ed40b16953a3d1cf2f7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-06-op-45883-story.html | A Nation of Cults: The Great American Tradition | A Nation of Cults: The Great American Tradition
The cult’s charismatic leader called himself Matthias the Prophet and claimed he was the latest incarnation of the Holy Spirit--a descendant of the ancient Hebrew prophets and patriarchs, including Jesus Christ. He lived communally with about 20 of his disciples--men, wom... |
b7ee859107194dff5e808dd42c1b1987 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-07-ca-46202-story.html | ‘Selena’: A Symbol of Today’s Cultural Ties | ‘Selena’: A Symbol of Today’s Cultural Ties
My girlfriend loved Selena because the tejano star couldn’t quite roll her Rs in Spanish. I liked her because she wasn’t too proud to resort to English during Spanish-language interviews. “Como se dice cinnamon?” she once asked a Latin American TV reporter without a hint of e... |
6bf24b0c3db8e1391c6ec5a65760017c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-12-ca-47825-story.html | Disney Hall Is Dusted With Optimism | Disney Hall Is Dusted With Optimism
To borrow on the name of the latest major donor to downtown’s Walt Disney Concert Hall project, Ralphs/Food 4 Less Foundation, can Disney Hall be Built 4 Less?
A $15-million donation announced this week from the Ralphs/Food 4 Less and Ron Burkle, an executive of Yucaipa Cos., allowed... |
27e3ed300460624cd7b09a0dce844dd6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-12-mn-48029-story.html | Nixon Library Halts Plans for Honoring Benefactor | Nixon Library Halts Plans for Honoring Benefactor
Officials of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation in Yorba Linda, Calif., have halted preparations for construction of a $6-million building because of a controversy over anti-Semitic writings of its long-deceased namesake, Nixon benefactor Elmer H. Bobst... |
7e6c9c4175d5440e6ba897678aa6adac | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-18-ca-49816-story.html | ‘Licensed to Kill’ Looks at Murderous Evil | ‘Licensed to Kill’ Looks at Murderous Evil
What is most surprising--and most provocative--about “Licensed to Kill,” Arthur Dong’s strong and disturbing documentary on men who kill homosexuals, is the way it overturns our expectations. Nothing you’ve heard about the plague of violence against gay men will lessen the sho... |
68d44d4c677149fbf3b46aa60a2e1b73 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-22-mn-51145-story.html | French President Dissolves Parliament, Sets Election | French President Dissolves Parliament, Sets Election
Taking the biggest political gamble of his term, President Jacques Chirac on Monday night dissolved the National Assembly and asked the French to elect a new Parliament willing to impose more belt-tightening measures on an already restive nation.
“Our economy, our en... |
8856235ac9851852507ad8fd81c803f0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-03-ca-54869-story.html | Visiting a Model Neighborhood | Visiting a Model Neighborhood
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JIM QUEALY & THE NOISY NEIGHBORS
“Songs from the Stoop”
Mudfram Records
The cover photo for Jim Quealy’s new album captures the singer-songwriter seated on his front-porch steps, blowing his harmonica. It’s a perfect snapshot because Quealy projects the sense that he enjoys making musi... |
e87003adf7fbe68b236f7771ce55ca55 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-07-mn-56316-story.html | Did Hired Killer Go by the Book? | Did Hired Killer Go by the Book?
The triple murder that took place on this quiet, suburban cul-de-sac of Colonial brick homes makes for a gripping tale of money and evil.
An out-of-work Hollywood sound engineer named Lawrence Horn conspired to have his ex-wife and brain-damaged son killed so that he could inherit a $2-... |
46a2d2a465f9d8d7599b63069412c6d4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-14-mn-58674-story.html | Prominent Biology Nobelist Chosen to Head Caltech | Prominent Biology Nobelist Chosen to Head Caltech
Caltech, an introspective school known for its academic mastery of the physical sciences, announced Tuesday that Nobel laureate David Baltimore, one of the country’s most prominent and outspoken biologists, will lead the university into the next century.
The school’s tr... |
bc0f8aa8d0cd6ecfb8d21676d5dc2a4a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-15-me-58789-story.html | A Luminary of Science for Caltech’s Presidency | A Luminary of Science for Caltech’s Presidency
Caltech’s decision to name David Baltimore its next president is savvy and significant, for Baltimore has just the right background and talents to help the Pasadena institute retain its footing on the shifting terrain of academic science. The Nobel Prize-winning biologist ... |
45a55bac127b658b4a3571c0e1229ef4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-17-mn-59626-story.html | Nation Suffered as Dictator Drained Riches | Nation Suffered as Dictator Drained Riches
Mobutu Sese Seko may have given up his power, but during three decades the dictator who promised his impoverished African land that he would live on his soldier’s pay salted away a vast secret fortune often estimated at as much as $5 billion.
That huge sum would make him riche... |
72a0a3586a7b9a8fa8327b90223644d0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-18-mn-60152-story.html | Senator’s Wife Pulls Plug on Fire Hydrant | Senator’s Wife Pulls Plug on Fire Hydrant
Catsup heiress Teresa Heinz got her indoctrination into the rough-and-tumble of Massachusetts politics last year, when a newspaper published a picture of her car parked illegally in front of a fire hydrant.
The license plate--"HZ57,” for “Heinz 57"--was a dead giveaway.
Now som... |
030971dfdadfe98765e9748496989f34 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-19-ca-60345-story.html | The Sad, Strange Journey of Johnny Depp’s ‘The Brave’ | The Sad, Strange Journey of Johnny Depp’s ‘The Brave’
Without Johnny Depp, “The Brave” probably never would have become a movie and certainly wouldn’t have been one of the official selections in the International Film Festival this year.
The difficult idea underlying the film--about a man so desperate to help his famil... |
e10cf26f1cd2653dfa93ee1900f8e765 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-25-me-62290-story.html | Vegas Landscapers Betting on Palm Trees | Vegas Landscapers Betting on Palm Trees
Tom Chacon considers himself a recycler. He sends his “spotters” out across the West, counting on them to buy and uproot prized palm trees from people’s back yards and bring them to Las Vegas--a city that’s gone mad for palms.
“The palm tree business is a booming business in Vega... |
201364fe9af9460584c2935c2d2e4da9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-25-mn-62353-story.html | $1-Million Gift to City Focuses Attention on Nondescript Motel Dweller | $1-Million Gift to City Focuses Attention on Nondescript Motel Dweller
For the last three years, employees at the Leesburg, Va., Best Western Motel knew him merely as Irwin, a quiet, elderly gentleman who lived there with a large dog.
He usually wore a cap, soiled bluejeans and a jean jacket, and town residents often m... |
7c8423e3e9fe2754ea3be6afa44a3e10 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-26-ca-62611-story.html | Are Films Using Names in Vain? | Are Films Using Names in Vain?
There is a growing trend of using the names of great authors in the titles of films--"Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” “William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet” are examples. Sincethe authors are dead and can’t sue the socks off the producers, I can’t help feeling that someone should speak up on th... |
39f11b53b48d238db8b23ba19676f593 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-26-ls-62598-story.html | An Evening of Bob Dylan, a Tribute to Tolerance | An Evening of Bob Dylan, a Tribute to Tolerance
Jonathan Dolgen wanted Bob Dylan. Jonathan Dolgen got Bob Dylan.
Dolgen, chairman of Viacom Entertainment Group, received the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Humanitarian Award on Wednesday at the Beverly Hilton with Bob Dylan as the headline entertainment.
“I love Dylan,” Dolg... |
17343e01c412bd4c71b2d8afc96eb98a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-01-ca-64393-story.html | From ‘Boys Town’ to the God Squad, a Hollywood Life | From ‘Boys Town’ to the God Squad, a Hollywood Life
Bobs Watson seemed destined for a lifetime in pictures, moving or otherwise. He was the youngest of nine siblings, all of whom were child actors. He appeared in 125 films before he was 10; screen roles for the nine Watson children ultimately topped 1,000.
All of his f... |
2282b5e40e2136a780f6c969e106e5d3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-01-op-64514-story.html | Defend Against the Shadow Enemy | Defend Against the Shadow Enemy
The destruction of the federal building in Oklahoma City and the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York shocked Americans. But those tragedies would have been far worse if nuclear, biological or chemical materials had been involved. After cochairing a yearlong study for the govern... |
4afd3422b029905a1450e80485f58de9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-02-fi-64933-story.html | New Medium Is His Message | New Medium Is His Message
Roger Black, one of the most influential designers in print media, spent the 1970s and ‘80s shaping the looks of such magazines as Esquire, Rolling Stone and Newsweek.
But the 1990s delivered something previous generations of designers only dreamed about: a new medium that offers a new creativ... |
bb987bb55d28de4f4b7e5d14aa853a05 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-04-me-65483-story.html?_amp=true | Pico-Aliso Residents Fear Being Left Out of the New Mix | Pico-Aliso Residents Fear Being Left Out of the New Mix
The detailed architectural drawings and optimistic pronouncements of the city Housing Authority promise a new future for Los Angeles’ largest public housing project, a collection of fading apartments infamous as one of the city’s toughest and most violent neighbor... |
2f5df1879bee2b2ba96e59fa7ce07ddc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-05-ca-133-story.html | The Talk of L.A. en Espan~ol | The Talk of L.A. en Espan~ol
When Humberto Luna took his first job in radio, he worked in Los Angeles but the office was in Tijuana. So five days a week Luna would record his program here and the tapes would be driven across the border and played the next day in a Mexican studio that broadcast the show back to Southern... |
90c669692e8eb30f7a7087ba2ee7704e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-06-me-709-story.html | An A+ Flunks the Helms Test | An A+ Flunks the Helms Test
To almost all eyes, Massachusetts Gov. William Weld seems right for the job of U.S. ambassador to Mexico. He is a nationally important political figure and a dedicated free-trader, committed to NAFTA. Having built his public career as a prosecutor, he understands law enforcement and is sophi... |
a0979646be8958575c9b34042e464808 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-08-fi-1265-story.html | High Test Score Proves His Failing | High Test Score Proves His Failing
Robert Jordan is a little too smart for his own good.
He took an exam to become a New London police officer but wasn’t called back for an interview because he scored too high.
Yes, that’s right, too high.
He recently filed a federal lawsuit alleging discrimination based on intelligenc... |
61220525c5c1d4cdf449ed4f32cb8e09 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-12-me-2688-story.html | Fall Injures Alleged Tagger | Fall Injures Alleged Tagger
A 19-year-old fractured his spine after apparently jumping about 100 feet from a freeway pylon where he became stranded early Wednesday after painting graffiti, the California Highway Patrol said.
Daniel Supple of Woodland Hills plunged off the San Diego Freeway pylon and onto a steep embank... |
11031bbfd7a7b1a78e79bc338ab447bc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-14-me-3395-story.html | Church Rebuilding Project Shifts Focus | Church Rebuilding Project Shifts Focus
The National Council of Churches--which has taken the lead in assisting predominantly black churches burned in a spate of fires since 1995--is moving into the second phase of its Church Rebuilding Project.
The transition is being marked by a convocation of pastors of burned church... |
07453d074d348bffe04082bc74fdd47f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-15-mn-3689-story.html | Tears of Joy Flow as Pratt Is Reunited With Mother | Tears of Joy Flow as Pratt Is Reunited With Mother
This was the day that all of his neighbors here had prayed for, his supporters had fought for and that he never doubted would arrive.
On this day, as former Black Panther Party leader Elmer Gerard “Geronimo” Pratt returned home to the Louisiana bayou of his youth, he b... |
c2665ad59831c70219ae5016374716c1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-16-me-3899-story.html | Game Effort : Artificial Water Holes Bring Relief to Wildlife Left High, Dry in Forest | Game Effort : Artificial Water Holes Bring Relief to Wildlife Left High, Dry in Forest
How does somebody get a drink around here?
For humans, it’s just a short stroll to the refrigerator for a pitcher of iced tea or can of soda. Anyone living in this desert that is Southern California needn’t exert any more effort find... |
2d16f0ec11eca3130a2f5d4dc8e88eeb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-17-mn-4191-story.html | Girl Killed in Botched Holdup at McDonald’s | Girl Killed in Botched Holdup at McDonald’s
A gunman opened fire during a thwarted robbery at a McDonald’s restaurant Monday, killing a 9-year-old girl before an off-duty police officer mortally wounded him, authorities said.
The gunman entered the restaurant through the employees entrance about 3 p.m. and handed a not... |
b1300ba3282c8fdd8077317fc7b15f48 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-27-ca-7249-story.html | John Travolta and Nicolas Cage get under each other’s skin--literally--in John Woo’s return to form, ‘Face/Off’ | John Travolta and Nicolas Cage get under each other’s skin--literally--in John Woo’s return to form, ‘Face/Off’
John Woo is known for a cinema of violent delirium so breathtaking it plays like visual poetry, and “Face/Off,” though his third film in Hollywood, is the first to expose mainstream audiences to the master at... |
f3e37deda2217a4a0e2cf1efa2ada20f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-02-me-18769-story.html | The Rock ‘n’ Roll Doc Practices Medicine and Music | The Rock ‘n’ Roll Doc Practices Medicine and Music
Patients don’t fret if they have to wait for their appointment with Dr. Stephen Patt.
But they can if they want to.
All they have to do is walk from the doctor’s medical waiting room into his musical practice room.
That’s where they can finger the strings of a used Fen... |
9597167b90888bddf533dd5c83b8a64e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-03-bk-18833-story.html | VIRGINIA WOOLF.<i> By Hermione Lee</i> .<i> Random House: 867 pp., $39.95</i> : ART AND AFFECTION: A Life of Virginia Woolf.<i> By Panthea Reid</i> .<i> Oxford University Press: 570 pp., $35</i> | VIRGINIA WOOLF.<i> By Hermione Lee</i> .<i> Random House: 867 pp., $39.95</i> : ART AND AFFECTION: A Life of Virginia Woolf.<i> By Panthea Reid</i> .<i> Oxford University Press: 570 pp., $35</i>
To write a fresh and engaging new life of Virginia Woolf is no mean feat. For Hermione Lee to do so, the “official” biographe... |
b5a4a845511c531579aee492e63c3edc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-04-ca-19253-story.html | 90% of ‘187' Is Based on Schoolteachers’ Reality | 90% of ‘187' Is Based on Schoolteachers’ Reality
In Kenneth Turan’s review of “187" (Calendar, July 30), he says the most disheartening line in the film is the final disclaimer, which states, “a teacher wrote this movie.” I, for one, have to disagree, because I was that teacher. I wrote the screenplay for “187" two yea... |
acb961af0691df1055207f31bd862d3d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-06-fi-19780-story.html | Sunstone Buying Stake in 17 Hotels to Double Its Size | Sunstone Buying Stake in 17 Hotels to Double Its Size
Sunstone Hotel Investors Inc. said Tuesday that it planned to acquire a stake in 17 hotels, a deal valued at $322 million, which would more than double the size of the real estate investment trust.
“We think this deal will separate us from the smaller guys,” said Jo... |
0e6e3c1772465334e72fe07652d751f4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-12-me-21826-story.html | Tougher Rules for Teachers of Child Actors Applauded | Tougher Rules for Teachers of Child Actors Applauded
Ask any of those cute little tykes who grew up before our eyes on “Flipper” and “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father” and countless other TV series: Acting careers don’t last forever.
That’s why former child actors and leaders of the Screen Actors Guild were rejoicing Mo... |
5d68dfdc30c379816119fffd453d51e5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-13-mn-21959-story.html | Jeri Gray; Dancer and Actress in Films, TV | Jeri Gray; Dancer and Actress in Films, TV
Jeri Gray, 72, dancer and actress whose career ranged from Harlem’s Apollo Theater to television. Gray, whose real name was Jeruth Persson and who was often called “Ms. Jeri,” danced at several Eastern theaters in her youth, including Broadway appearances with Sammy Davis Jr. ... |
9a822efe90a4cd0acb43af76cac26d61 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-13-sp-21977-story.html | Favre: NFL Lied About Alcohol Ban Review | Favre: NFL Lied About Alcohol Ban Review
In his forthcoming book, quarterback Brett Favre details his addiction to painkillers and says the NFL lied at the Super Bowl by saying it was still reviewing his request to have his alcohol ban lifted.
In “Favre: For the Record,” the two-time most-valuable-player of the Green B... |
b9f8af2278102d388e3364986f471fef | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-16-ca-22880-story.html | ‘Subway Stories’ Doesn’t Quite Get There | ‘Subway Stories’ Doesn’t Quite Get There
In the bowels of New York’s subway system, a young woman, on the phone with her dying mother, breaks into a gospel tune. An itinerant sax player listens awhile, then improvises wailing accompaniment. As the woman leaves, a cantor enters, chanting reverently. The sax player adjus... |
798d7285b9ad20f4c952da9a1297d7af | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-17-me-23367-story.html | Next Best Thing to Graceland | Next Best Thing to Graceland
The distance between Northridge and Memphis can be calculated in measures other than miles.
But to the crowd that marked Saturday’s 20th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death by flocking to a quiet San Fernando Valley street to see a copy of the singer’s Graceland mansion, such details are b... |
c31b2fc3587cd08d985c030c994e21b1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-17-me-23369-story.html | Deadly Blast a Proving Ground for Live TV | Deadly Blast a Proving Ground for Live TV
Since the film industry moved west shortly after the turn of the century, Los Angeles has been on the cutting edge of what has come to be called the information age. And, though it is seldom recalled, the first convergence of live television and disaster--a staple of today’s TV... |
2be816cdd6326347aa930e2aeed82605 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-21-fi-24408-story.html | Gateway Overtakes Apple in Education Field | Gateway Overtakes Apple in Education Field
Gateway 2000 Inc. overtook Cupertino-based Apple Computer Inc. in the second quarter as the No. 1 provider of desktop and portable computers in the U.S. educational market, according to Computer Intelligence, a market research firm. North Sioux City, S.D.-based Gateway, which ... |
f7e3735ed4e0ba3ec257a9198f2a6425 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-24-me-25513-story.html | A Blow Against Bureaucracy : SPECIAL REPORT * A couple who built a small house with their own hands ended up with criminal records and a $1.5-million fine, but now they’ve won . . . | A Blow Against Bureaucracy : SPECIAL REPORT * A couple who built a small house with their own hands ended up with criminal records and a $1.5-million fine, but now they’ve won . . .
With the clarity of hindsight, it is easy to see that Kathleen Kenny blew it when she fashioned the little red house out of a dilapidated ... |
81bfeb2070b268f2f7c591c2b658f84f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-24-me-25614-story.html | Hubbard Textbooks | Hubbard Textbooks
* Rena Weinberg’s column (“Education Is the Real Issue,” Aug. 3) about L. Ron Hubbard’s textbooks had a serious error. The materials which Weinberg refers to were reviewed in July 1996 and did not pass legal compliance. Therefore the books should not be in use in any California public school.
During t... |
72df3c30828dd32cac47e5c2a147b145 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-25-mn-25772-story.html | Hoffa Calls for Carey to Quit Teamster Post | Hoffa Calls for Carey to Quit Teamster Post
With his seemingly revitalized union embroiled once again in controversy and allegations of corruption, Teamster President Ron Carey faced a demand Sunday from his defeated rival that he abandon his post.
Two days after a federal monitor said the union’s 1996 presidential ele... |
c60212ff092d52d0f01b4abfd266914c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-30-ca-27410-story.html | Blue Mama Plays Music With a Wink and a Smile | Blue Mama Plays Music With a Wink and a Smile
It’s not unusual to find an aspiring blues band playing with gritted teeth, as if strain and visible sweat, rather than ancestry, could vouch for its right to drawl and bend notes. One suspects that, if the members of Blue Mama ever grit their teeth, it would be to stifle t... |
2c763853f1253899e39ea1db5fea5e1c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-31-mn-27505-story.html | New Genetic Study Links Whale, Cow | New Genetic Study Links Whale, Cow
Cows are more closely related to whales than to pigs, says a genetic study that suggests a new place for whales in the evolutionary family tree.
Prior studies have indicated that whales, along with dolphins and porpoises, are rather closely related to hoofed mammals with an even numbe... |
eb76d4c72510fcdf5a9364a42e42fa3d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-02-fi-59640-story.html | National City to Buy First of America Bank | National City to Buy First of America Bank
Consolidation in the banking industry took another step forward Monday when National City Corp. said it will acquire First of America Bank Corp. in a stock swap worth $7.1 billion, a deal that would bring together two big Midwestern bank holding companies.
A definitive agreeme... |
5c88bfd2e43898b5eb32e06366d6cb18 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-02-mn-59755-story.html | Curfews Cited for Drop in Juvenile Crime Rate | Curfews Cited for Drop in Juvenile Crime Rate
As increasing numbers of American cities step up enforcement of youth curfews, more than 90% of cities surveyed find the controversial laws a useful tool for police officers, with several California cities reporting dramatic decreases in juvenile crime, according to a natio... |
f2fe6fa497c975c242cd11c6a0be0502 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-06-fi-61073-story.html | Wal-Mart, Kmart Remove ‘Smack’ Album | Wal-Mart, Kmart Remove ‘Smack’ Album
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation’s largest retailer, yanked a controversial album by the British rock act Prodigy from 2,300 stores on Friday because of objectionable lyrics contained in a song called “Smack My Bitch Up.”
This is apparently the first time Wal-Mart has pulled a recor... |
00684ed7157681ee163dd75660caa5d9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-10-fi-62414-story.html | Cycle of Success | Cycle of Success
Heads bowed and eyes closed, the cyclists sway from side to side, their legs pedaling madly as they visualize themselves sprinting down a mountain slope with a pack of other racers.
Leading the way is Johnny Goldberg, the founder of Spinning, the fitness craze that transformed the ho-hum stationary bik... |
89dccfa582412959d365feb9d7475161 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-12-ca-63148-story.html | ‘Hugo Pool’ Doesn’t Reflect Well on Downeys Jr. and Sr. | ‘Hugo Pool’ Doesn’t Reflect Well on Downeys Jr. and Sr.
We hate to hit a man when he’s down, but what a week for Robert Downey Jr.! On Monday, a judge orders him to jail for six months for violating probation on past drug offenses, and today, “Hugo Pool” opens, putting on public display one of the worst performances he... |
4e28d3347a4f35bb06bf0b6c0d7b8319 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-12-me-63344-story.html | Driver Charged With Murdering 2 in Crash | Driver Charged With Murdering 2 in Crash
His name is Kelly Dean Eastman. Her name was Kimberly Dawn Ellis. As horribly bad luck would have it, they ended up with more in common than their initials.
Eastman is the suspected drunk driver with a prior DUI conviction who authorities say killed Ellis and her Pepperdine Univ... |
ac1d3577530f392db76daa614f29de2a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-14-me-64014-story.html | Ex-Prosecutor Says Monroe Dumped Robert Kennedy | Ex-Prosecutor Says Monroe Dumped Robert Kennedy
Did Marilyn dump RFK? . . . Cher dumps her contractor. . . . Tamagotchis vs. Giga Pets
Before she died, Marilyn Monroe wasn’t heartbroken over being dumped by a Kennedy; she was the one doing the dumping.
So asserts John W. Miner, the former prosecutor who investigated th... |
dbaaec6987f88494448736a0208619a0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-17-fi-64925-story.html | NFIB Leads Effort on Tax Reform | NFIB Leads Effort on Tax Reform
Jack Faris, head of the National Federation of Independent Business, wants to junk the nation’s tax code, all 7 million confusing words of it, and start over.
Toward that end, Faris chose highly symbolic Independence, Mo., from which to launch a petition drive in September. He seeks sign... |
e442acb7764ddb20540dc98bbfcda603 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-18-mn-65497-story.html | Dam Destruction in N.C. Shaking Up Northwest | Dam Destruction in N.C. Shaking Up Northwest
At 11:19 a.m., the barrier began to give way with just the faintest clang of metal striking concrete. But in political terms, the sledgehammer that Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt took to the Quaker Neck Dam on Wednesday echoed clear to the Pacific Northwest.
Babbitt’s pred... |
6e44be2a0ffa399727037b26b4d8a622 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-19-mn-261-story.html | Surrender Ends Texas Day-Care Hostage Crisis | Surrender Ends Texas Day-Care Hostage Crisis
A gunman who took dozens of children and several adults hostage at a day-care center released his last two captives--his son and stepson--Thursday night, then surrendered, ending the 30-hour siege.
No one was hurt.
James Monroe Lipscomb Jr., 33, gave up shortly after 9 p.m. ... |
c324b2c1f13646c08e509b995d227e27 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-21-ca-853-story.html | It Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This | It Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This
In the often cloistered world of architecture, two gargantuan events momentarily held the public’s attention in 1997: the long-anticipated opening of Los Angeles’ $1-billion Getty Center and the stunning success of Frank O. Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. And both grew o... |
cf630affa90f2236ef397b8dc291f652 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-23-fi-1359-story.html | MGM Says It Was Outbid for Film Library | MGM Says It Was Outbid for Film Library
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. said it didn’t buy a film library with about 1,000 titles from Consortium de Realisation SAS because it was outbid by PolyGram NV, which bought the library early this month. Craig Parsons, an MGM spokesman, said the Santa Monica-based film studio had offe... |
d863378ffa6b52141bfdae366979fd44 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-28-me-2937-story.html | James M. Nabrit Jr.; Rights Leader | James M. Nabrit Jr.; Rights Leader
James M. Nabrit Jr., an educator and leader in the civil rights movement who argued and won one of the country’s landmark desegregation cases and later served as president of Howard University, died Saturday. He was 97.
A son, James M. Nabrit III, said Nabrit had been under treatment ... |
cd273067993d9c5d5a20ad8ec6a69174 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-01-ca-8496-story.html | The Outer Limits of Fun : ‘Men in Black’ takes the alien theme, twists it in hip directions and adds some cool sight gags. | The Outer Limits of Fun : ‘Men in Black’ takes the alien theme, twists it in hip directions and adds some cool sight gags.
Go ahead, admit what you’ve always suspected: A certain percentage of people met in daily life are so strange, so out-and-out weird, they have to be aliens from another universe. Now, at last, come... |
e2d2bb1fa9f59bc832bd355f4edfaa0b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-01-sp-8649-story.html | Struggles Continue for Seles | Struggles Continue for Seles
Monica Seles’ sad trek through a sport she used to happily dominate took another wrenching turn Monday when she lost in the third round on a cold, sunless day.
Sandrine Testud of France defeated second-seeded Seles, 0-6, 6-4, 8-6, thwarting Seles’ attempt to win the one Grand Slam tournamen... |
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