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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-28-mn-7890-story.html
Clinton Open-Minded on Social Security Privatization
Clinton Open-Minded on Social Security Privatization President Clinton said Monday he is open-minded about proposals to invest Social Security funds in the stock market and other private investments, although he warned that “we also have to ask the hard questions” about the risks involved in such a move. As political m...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-29-ca-7980-story.html
Happily Trapped
Happily Trapped The premise couldn’t be less plausible, but who has ever cared? Since it came out in 1961, “The Parent Trap” has been an embraceable fantasy, a sugarplum vision of a world where parents are perfect though apart and children are the only ones with the sense and savvy to bring them together again. Beloved...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-03-me-56173-story.html
Carona Edges Past Walters in Sheriff’s Race
Carona Edges Past Walters in Sheriff’s Race In a bitter contest between two former friends, county Marshal Mike Carona led Santa Ana Police Chief Paul M. Walters by several points in the race to succeed longtime county fixture Brad Gates and become the first new Orange County sheriff in 24 years. With about half the pr...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-04-sp-56506-story.html
This Isn’t Only Passionate Time for Shanahan
This Isn’t Only Passionate Time for Shanahan It’s a warm and humid Saturday afternoon in early August 1997 in Toronto. The sky is cloudy. Weathermen are talking about the possibility of thunderstorms. But for Brendan Shanahan, it is the most peaceful time he has spent in months. The fun-loving Red Wings left winger has...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-09-mn-58211-story.html
Wells Fargo and Norwest to Merge in $32-Billion Deal
Wells Fargo and Norwest to Merge in $32-Billion Deal Wells Fargo & Co., a California banking powerhouse for nearly 150 years, unveiled plans Monday to merge with Minneapolis-based Norwest Corp. in a $32-billion stock deal that will create the nation’s seventh-largest bank, with branches across 21 states in the West and...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-10-ca-58273-story.html
On the Upswing
On the Upswing If a twister could talk it probably would sound very much like Ally Sheedy. It’s only 9 in the morning, and she hasn’t even had a cup of coffee, but Sheedy is already whirling around her L.A. hotel room, smoking up a storm (constantly dispelling the smoke with sharp flicks of the wrist). In a stream-of-c...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-17-mn-60786-story.html
Garlic Pills Called Useless for Cholesterol
Garlic Pills Called Useless for Cholesterol Contrary to the widespread belief that garlic pills are nature’s very own cholesterol buster, an unusually rigorous clinical study made public today found that the supplements did not lower blood cholesterol levels at all. The research, published in the Journal of the America...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-23-ca-62561-story.html
A Novice Auteur Makes His Stand
A Novice Auteur Makes His Stand The mystery began with the June 11 issue of Daily Variety, which carried a full-page ad quoting the John Lennon lyric: “Everybody’s hustlin’ for a buck and a dime, I’ll scratch your back and you knife mine.” The same day, an ad ran in the Hollywood Reporter with a quote from Edmund Burke...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-24-mn-63160-story.html
China’s Eternal Parade Ground
China’s Eternal Parade Ground As public spaces go, it’s not a pretty sight: a vast plain of concrete bounded by a mishmash of architecture, including a mammoth Stalinist government building and a three-story Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet. But as symbols go, Tiananmen Square is one of the most recognizable on Earth, 100...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-27-mn-64148-story.html
Serial Killer Eludes Texas’ Death Chamber
Serial Killer Eludes Texas’ Death Chamber Gov. George W. Bush on Friday spared the life of a death row inmate who once claimed to have killed 600 people, commuting Henry Lee Lucas’ sentence to life in prison after doubts about his guilt in the so-called “orange socks” slaying were raised. Bush issued the reprieve on th...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-29-he-64603-story.html
Exercise in Awareness
Exercise in Awareness Staying fit into the millennium may mean working out less for your money. That’s because after doing an ATM class, your body will move as smoothly as the slide of a debit card. But ATM in this case stands for Awareness Through Movement, and the classes are part of the Feldenkrais Method, which man...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-08-ls-26691-story.html
Murder From Beyond the Grave
Murder From Beyond the Grave More than 40 years after her death, Dorothy L. Sayers has a new Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel out this month. “Thrones, Dominations” (St. Martin’s Press) becomes the 12th Wimsey book, thanks to the imagination and humility of British novelist Jill Paton Walsh, who turned a rough bag of no...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-10-mn-27361-story.html
A Growing Faith--and Outrage
A Growing Faith--and Outrage In the predawn darkness, the floodlit cathedral looms like a snow-covered mountain over this poor neighborhood. Inside, 15,000 faithful have been waiting for two hours, but they show no sign of fatigue. They are expecting their Moses. Suddenly, a pudgy preacher in a brown suit strides up th...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-16-me-29454-story.html
‘Titanic’ Refuses to Sink, Passes ‘Star Wars’ as Top Moneymaker
‘Titanic’ Refuses to Sink, Passes ‘Star Wars’ as Top Moneymaker It’s loyalists like Selena Phanara who helped the blockbuster maritime disaster epic “Titanic” steam its way past George Lucas’ “Star Wars” this weekend to become the highest-grossing film of all time. Six times, the Burbank artist and teacher has seen the...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-18-mn-30074-story.html
Netanyahu Turns to Evangelicals in U.S. for Support
Netanyahu Turns to Evangelicals in U.S. for Support Beset by growing friction with the Clinton administration and splits in the U.S. Jewish community, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has turned for grass-roots U.S. support to what might seem an unlikely source: Christian fundamentalists. Israeli officials say...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-21-sp-31288-story.html
Martin Signs Jet Offer Sheet
Martin Signs Jet Offer Sheet Curtis Martin of the New England Patriots, one of only seven players in NFL history to begin a career with three 1,000-yard rushing seasons, signed an offer sheet with the New York Jets on Friday. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but ESPN reported that Martin had an option of $4 m...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-22-bk-31341-story.html
SLAVE COUNTERPOINT: Black Culture in the Eighteenth Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. <i> By Philip D. Morgan</i> .<i> University of North Carolina Press: 674 pp., $49.95</i> : SLAVES IN THE FAMILY.<i> By Edward Ball</i> .<i> Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 504 pp., $30</i>
SLAVE COUNTERPOINT: Black Culture in the Eighteenth Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. <i> By Philip D. Morgan</i> .<i> University of North Carolina Press: 674 pp., $49.95</i> : SLAVES IN THE FAMILY.<i> By Edward Ball</i> .<i> Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 504 pp., $30</i> American history offers no more complex, peculiar a...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-22-me-31613-story.html
Ski Slopes for the Southland
Ski Slopes for the Southland From palm trees to Ferraris, Los Angeles has always had more than its share of exotic imports. But for sheer novelty, few have rivaled Joseph “Sepp” Benedikter, the daredevil Austrian ski racing champion who established a ski school in a town where snowflakes are as rare as waiters without ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-23-mn-31918-story.html
Clinton Allegations Dividing Feminists
Clinton Allegations Dividing Feminists Women’s rights advocates broke ranks Sunday over allegations that President Clinton groped a female volunteer in the White House, reflecting a fundamental struggle to determine what constitutes sexual harassment and whether a popular Democratic president engaged in it. At issue is...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-24-sp-32091-story.html
Cloud of Uncertainty Over Karros
Cloud of Uncertainty Over Karros On the eve of the regular season, Dodger first baseman Eric Karros could be sidelined indefinitely after an examination Monday revealed that he must undergo arthroscopic surgery on his injured left knee. Team physician Ralph Gambardella will perform the surgery today at 1 p.m. at Centin...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-26-sp-33052-story.html
David Greenwood’s Past Is Good Model for Present, Future
David Greenwood’s Past Is Good Model for Present, Future David Greenwood’s plan for returning Verbum Dei to glory appears to be ahead of schedule. Greenwood, a Southern Section player of the year at Verbum Dei in 1975 who starred at UCLA and played in the NBA, guided the Eagles to the state Division IV basketball champ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-28-mn-33486-story.html
Japan Sowed Seeds of Its Pollen Problem
Japan Sowed Seeds of Its Pollen Problem What on earth is ailing the weeping, sniffling, miserable Japanese seen on every street corner these days? Not the nation’s worsening recession, its political dithering, the Asian economic crisis or even the Hong Kong avian flu. No, chances are the culprit is Cryptomeria japonica...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-mar-31-sp-34674-story.html
Tennessee Women Have a Dynasty in the Making
Tennessee Women Have a Dynasty in the Making When Vice President Al Gore called to congratulate the Lady Vols for winning their third straight NCAA title Sunday night, Tennessee star Chamique Holdsclaw took the receiver from Coach Pat Summitt and, according to Summitt, asked Gore: “Are you going to get tired of seeing ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-03-ca-45751-story.html
A True Renegade Cavorts on Amos’ ‘Choirgirl Hotel’
A True Renegade Cavorts on Amos’ ‘Choirgirl Hotel’ Is she a high-boil Kate Bush rip-off or a true renegade--a singer-pianist unafraid to cavort with fairies and howl with wolves? Sometimes Amos is simply both, someone capable of terrific, swooping highs and ungodly, muck-wallowing lows, a woman whose fever either mesme...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-03-sp-46047-story.html
Angels Put On a Show Come Hell or High Water
Angels Put On a Show Come Hell or High Water His name: Joshua Hutchings. His title: Geyser control. His job description: “I throw a whole bunch of water in the air.” He’s the Geyser Guy, the man who runs the “Outfield Extravaganza” at Edison Field. Actually there are three people who have this job. That’s one of life’s...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-06-ls-46952-story.html
Sparks in the Darkness
Sparks in the Darkness Carrying doughnuts, a bowl of fresh vegetables and a stack of homework assignments, a tall woman in a silky skirt made her way down the long concrete path of L.A.'s Central Juvenile Hall. Even balancing this awkward load, Karen Mezek Leimert moved with ease and confidence, as if she were in a cou...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-06-sp-46977-story.html
Belle Cleared of Betting on Baseball
Belle Cleared of Betting on Baseball An investigation into the gambling habits of Chicago White Sox slugger Albert Belle found no evidence he bet on baseball. Kevin Hallinan, baseball’s executive director of security and management, spent about 14 months investigating Belle, who has admitted betting on other sports. Pl...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-09-mn-47941-story.html
3 Men Sought in Death of Former Beauty Queen
3 Men Sought in Death of Former Beauty Queen Investigators were searching Friday for three men seen leaving a motel with a former beauty queen the night before police found her body in a muddy field six weeks ago. Jill Ann Weatherwax, 27, a onetime Miss Hollywood, was found stabbed to death behind an animal shelter Mar...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-10-bk-48197-story.html
Ralph Ellison in Tivoli
Ralph Ellison in Tivoli Some 40 years ago I came into a small legacy and with it I bought a house in Tivoli, N.Y. “House” is not the word for it; it was, or once had been, a Hudson River mansion. It had a Dutch cellar kitchen of flagstones and a kitchen fireplace. There was a dumbwaiter to the vanished dining room abov...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-10-sp-48358-story.html
Thanks to Spike Lee, Ray Allen Has Got Game and Movie Fame
Thanks to Spike Lee, Ray Allen Has Got Game and Movie Fame Ray Allen doesn’t look like a movie star. Comfortable in baggy black jeans, a rumpled white V-neck T-shirt and white athletic socks on shoeless feet, he barely resembles an NBA millionaire, either. But director Spike Lee didn’t want a star to play Jesus Shuttle...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-12-me-48840-story.html
Police Commission President Defends Panel’s Oversight of Chief
Police Commission President Defends Panel’s Oversight of Chief In response to growing criticism of its job performance, Los Angeles Police Commission President Edith Perez said Monday that the panel has not shirked its oversight responsibilities. “The absence of public dissent between the board and Chief of Police Bern...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-16-ca-50143-story.html
‘Seinfeld’s’ Finale Ends Up in Sixth Place of All Time
‘Seinfeld’s’ Finale Ends Up in Sixth Place of All Time After all the hype, the last “Seinfeld” may have proved a letdown for many viewers, but the show didn’t disappoint NBC in the ratings department, as the raw numbers rivaled other historic television events. The national audience was on the low end of projections th...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-17-mn-50593-story.html
Cooling Trend Predicted for Mount Vernon
Cooling Trend Predicted for Mount Vernon Mount Vernon, one of the hottest attractions--literally--in the Washington, D.C., area, is about to get a cooling off. Air-conditioning is finally coming to George and Martha Washington’s 18th century mansion. This is bound to be glad tidings to the million or so tourists who fl...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-17-mn-50846-story.html
Woman Finds Partially Buried Newborn Baby
Woman Finds Partially Buried Newborn Baby A woman jogging with her dog in Altadena on Saturday night found a partially buried newborn boy with his umbilical cord still attached, according to Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, who responded to the call for help she made from a cellular phone. The woman, who runs eve...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-18-ca-50939-story.html
For Women in Sitcoms, It’s the Next Generation
For Women in Sitcoms, It’s the Next Generation I am woman. Hear me roar--right off the air. Murphy Brown couldn’t keep a secretary, sang Aretha Franklin songs badly but with abandon and told off Dan Quayle (in a vintage moment of art imitating life when life believed the art was real). Cybill, the fortysomething Hollyw...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-18-me-51136-story.html
Boy Found in Grave Is Expected to Survive
Boy Found in Grave Is Expected to Survive A newborn baby found buried alive in a shallow grave in Altadena remained hospitalized in serious condition Sunday but was expected to survive, authorities said. “The baby has shown remarkable recovery,” said Dr. Ricardo Liberman, the neonatal medical director at Huntington Mem...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-19-fi-51197-story.html
French Tycoon to Buy Christie’s for $1.2 Billion
French Tycoon to Buy Christie’s for $1.2 Billion French tycoon Francois Pinault agreed to buy Christie’s International in a deal that values the auction house at $1.2 billion, both sides said Monday. Pinault, a top retailer and avid art collector, has been a regular customer of Christie’s and, by purchasing the auction...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-20-ca-51551-story.html
A Bidding War Over an Orphan
A Bidding War Over an Orphan The battle to buy the first commercial discovery of the 1998 Cannes International Film Festival began quietly enough. No one had seen “Waking Ned,” a comedy made with no movie stars by a British first-time writer-director, before its first screening on Monday afternoon. The 33-year-old film...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-24-ca-52984-story.html
Assessing the Demise of Drama-Logue
Assessing the Demise of Drama-Logue Drama-Logue is about to die. The weekly trade newspaper will be swallowed by its young competitor, Back Stage West, next month. The L.A. theater community is talking about what that will mean. For years, Drama-Logue was the unofficial newsletter of the L.A. theater scene--"an icon fo...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-24-me-53072-story.html
Wedded Bliss? Channing Says Otherwise
Wedded Bliss? Channing Says Otherwise News of the blond, the beautiful and the O.J.-adjacent Gentlemen may prefer blonds, but Carol Channing says her husband of 41 years preferred the company of his friends, especially Beverly Hills glamour photographer Wallace Seawell. The frothy-haired stage and screen actress claims...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-28-me-54090-story.html
Thomas J. D’Andrea; Actor, Fixture in Comedy
Thomas J. D’Andrea; Actor, Fixture in Comedy Longtime Thousand Oaks resident Thomas J. D’Andrea, a fixture in the Hollywood movie, radio and stand-up comedy scene for three decades, died May 14 at his home in South Port Square, Fla. He was 88. D’Andrea was laid to rest Tuesday in a ceremony at sea, his family said. D’A...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-30-me-54748-story.html
Possible Suspect in Tupac Shakur Death Killed in Shootout
Possible Suspect in Tupac Shakur Death Killed in Shootout Orlando Anderson--once named by police as a suspect in the Las Vegas slaying of rap star Tupac Shakur--was killed Friday in a gang shootout in Compton that also claimed the life of another man, sources close to the case said. Police withheld formal identificatio...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-31-ca-54954-story.html
Outsize and Outrageous
Outsize and Outrageous Trying to fit Niki de Saint Phalle’s work into one of the art world’s standard categories is a bit like stuffing your cat into a cage for a trip to the vet. Just as you think you have the cute little fellow under control, he bites your finger, pokes out a paw and stops you from closing the door, ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-nov-01-mn-38174-story.html
‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ Disaster Haunts Pollsters
‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ Disaster Haunts Pollsters Political pollsters quite accurately boast of the reliability of their science, but polling’s biggest ever goof remains alive 50 years later in a headline seared into America’s collective memory: “Dewey Defeats Truman.” Fifty years ago this month, all major polls predict...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-nov-02-fi-38584-story.html
More Struggling Companies Slipping Off Nasdaq’s List
More Struggling Companies Slipping Off Nasdaq’s List For a troubled small company, it can nail the coffin shut. It’s called a delisting--meaning the company’s stock is removed from the market it trades on--and it’s a growing risk for an increasing number of small companies. Tougher listing rules adopted this year by th...
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Kagwe Wins Close Finish in New York Marathon
Kagwe Wins Close Finish in New York Marathon With only yards remaining in the New York Marathon on Sunday, one thing was certain--a Kenyan would win. John Kagwe ran away from countryman Joseph Chebet to win the marathon by three seconds, the second-closest finish in the race’s 29-year history. “Last year, I felt it was...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-nov-04-mn-39324-story.html
GOP’s Kuykendall in Lead for South Bay Representative
GOP’s Kuykendall in Lead for South Bay Representative Rep. Loretta Sanchez’s apparent victory over challenger Robert K. Dornan set the tone for what looked to be a strong night for congressional incumbents in California. Despite a roller-coaster election season, most California congressional incumbents were safe from c...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-nov-06-fi-39986-story.html
Massachusetts’ ‘Burma Law’ Struck Down
Massachusetts’ ‘Burma Law’ Struck Down A federal judge has struck down a Massachusetts statute banning state purchases from companies doing business in troubled Myanmar, saying the law interferes with the federal government’s power to regulate foreign affairs. The ruling by Chief U.S. District Judge Joseph L. Tauro, wh...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-nov-16-ca-43273-story.html
Fox’s ‘World’s Funniest’ Hits Below the Belt
Fox’s ‘World’s Funniest’ Hits Below the Belt An advertisement in some editions of TV Guide made it look as though an entire hour of the Fox series “World’s Funniest” was going to be devoted to home videos of men getting hit in the groin. Yes, really. In the ad for the “World’s Funniest” that aired Nov. 8, a cartoon of ...
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Northridge Temblor Set Off Surge in Family’s Glass-Repair Business
Northridge Temblor Set Off Surge in Family’s Glass-Repair Business When Joseph Rattay reopened his crystal repair shop one month after the Northridge earthquake, customers began lining up two hours before he even got to work. And they continued to come, even after he warned them that it might be up to two years before ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-nov-25-mn-47702-story.html
FDA Issues New Warnings on Hazards of Viagra Use
FDA Issues New Warnings on Hazards of Viagra Use The Food and Drug Administration is adding serious new health warnings to the label on bottles of Viagra, the wildly popular anti-impotence drug that has been prescribed for 3 million men since it was approved for general use in April. In expanded labels, the government ...
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Historic Tunic Goes Home to Lakota Sioux
Historic Tunic Goes Home to Lakota Sioux After a century of exile, Glasgow’s famous “ghost shirt” is going home to Wounded Knee. A mixed band of spectators, some in kilts and some in cowboy boots, burst into applause earlier this month as the City Council of this industrial center agreed that a bloodstained Indian tuni...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-02-fi-28500-story.html
Boeing to Pay $10-Million Sea Launch Fine
Boeing to Pay $10-Million Sea Launch Fine Boeing Co. has agreed to pay a $10-million civil penalty to get its commercial space venture in Long Beach, known as Sea Launch, back on track after allegedly disclosing sensitive information to its Russian and Ukrainian partners. The settlement will allow Boeing to reinstate a...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-02-mn-28649-story.html
U.S., N. Korea Open Talks on Missile Issue
U.S., N. Korea Open Talks on Missile Issue After a 16-month interval, U.S. and North Korean negotiators in New York on Thursday resumed high-stakes talks that a jittery West hopes will rein in the hermit nation’s growing missile development and export programs. The two-day session comes a month after the Communist regi...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-04-ca-29046-story.html
‘The Wind’ and the (Young) Lions
‘The Wind’ and the (Young) Lions If things had gone according to plan, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s season opener would have featured a collaboration between director Renny Harlin and composer Graeme Revell, as the second installment of the orchestra-commissioned Filmharmonic movies-and-music series. But Harlin had t...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-07-fi-30014-story.html
Universal Studios Shows Beijing the Business
Universal Studios Shows Beijing the Business With the opening of Universal Studios Experience Beijing last month, residents of the Chinese capital got their first taste of a Hollywood entertainment complex. But visitors relishing the prospect of theme parks and thrill rides may find themselves hungry for more satisfyin...
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Sequel Rubs Film’s Experts Wrong Way
Sequel Rubs Film’s Experts Wrong Way “This material has resisted sequels for almost 60 years,” says Aljean Harmetz. As far as she’s concerned, things should have stayed that way. She’s talking about “Casablanca.” Not only is it her favorite film. The former New York Times reporter is a “Casablanca” scholar, having writ...
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Firefighters Hit Roof Over Speed Bumps
Firefighters Hit Roof Over Speed Bumps They give peace of mind to traffic-weary residents and jolt the bones of rogue motorists whizzing down the street. But as speed bumps become more popular on the American road, they have found a new enemy in firefighters and paramedics who say the devices slow their response to eme...
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The Man Behind the ‘Great Experiment’
The Man Behind the ‘Great Experiment’ That whole thing about the cherry tree? Forget that. And the wooden teeth? Nonsense. The stuffy old guy pictured on the $1 bill? That’s hardly the real George Washington. A slightly different image of America’s first president emerges from a new exhibit at the Huntington Library, A...
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Feinstein Recommends Mayorkas for U.S. Attorney in L.A.
Feinstein Recommends Mayorkas for U.S. Attorney in L.A. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has recommended to President Clinton that he nominate Alejandro Mayorkas, a 10-year veteran prosecutor, to become the next U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, The Times has learned. If Clinton nominates him, which is highly likely, and the Senate a...
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COLLEEN ATWOOD / COSTUME DESIGNER
COLLEEN ATWOOD / COSTUME DESIGNER Jonathan Demme and Tim Burton are very different directors, but they both rely on Colleen Atwood to design the costumes for nearly every movie they do, from Burton’s fanciful “Edward Scissorhands” to Demme’s new austere period film, “Beloved.” Atwood, 48, won an Oscar nomination for he...
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Actor Fails to Shoot Down Gun Lawsuit
Actor Fails to Shoot Down Gun Lawsuit Plus, death to “Lawyers” . . . No contest . . . John Doe’s lawsuit. Did actor Christian Slater cause a rookie police officer severe emotional distress by reaching for the officer’s gun last year during that infamous biting brouhaha? A judge in Santa Monica has left it up to a jury ...
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Operational Ethics
Operational Ethics Surgeons and ethicists are pondering a host of questions in the aftermath of an unprecedented hand transplant conducted in France three weeks ago. An international team of surgeons at Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon took the hand and lower arm from a man who died in an accident and grafted them onto...
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Chinese Martial-Art Form Sports Less Threatening Moves
Chinese Martial-Art Form Sports Less Threatening Moves Nearly 10,000 demonstrators converged Thursday on Tiananmen Square in one of the biggest rallies since the prodemocracy protests of 1989. But there wasn’t a dissident in sight. Instead, the masses were participating in a huge display of China’s graceful art of tai ...
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An Alternative Universe
An Alternative Universe The afternoon of her 51st birthday, Octavia Butler is speaking of parasites. Of leeches, grubs, maggots and botflies, specifically. Street poets, feminist authors, college professors and civil servants on lunch hour have gathered this summer day at Sisterspace bookstore in Washington, D.C., to h...
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Their Aim Is True
Their Aim Is True “Somehow I never imagined I’d be playing this guitar while wearing this tuxedo,” Elvis Costello joked during his Universal Amphitheatre performance with Burt Bacharach on Tuesday, indicating the electric guitar he used to accompany an orchestrated version of his 1977 ballad “Alison.” “You never know w...
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The Improbable Success of ‘Life Is Beautiful’
The Improbable Success of ‘Life Is Beautiful’ When the narrator of the surprising “Life Is Beautiful” says, “This is a simple story but not an easy one to tell,” he’s speaking of the tale he’s introducing. But the thought applies as well to the challenges facing co-writer, director and star Roberto Benigni, who set him...
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‘Soldier’ Takes No Prisoners
‘Soldier’ Takes No Prisoners “Soldier,” a potent comic-book-style action-adventure fantasy, envisions a not-too-distant intergalactic future when warriors will be selected at birth by the government and trained to become human fighting machines. Over the years. Kurt Russell’s Todd has become the best of these warriors,...
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MGM Agrees to Acquire PolyGram Movie Library
MGM Agrees to Acquire PolyGram Movie Library Capping weeks of negotiations, Kirk Kerkorian’s Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. has agreed to acquire most of the movie library of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment from Seagram Co. for $235 million in cash. With the addition to its existing catalog, MGM’s library of 5,200 movies will ...
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The Mystery of the Missing Film
The Mystery of the Missing Film George Hjorth’s orders that June morning 54 years ago were mysterious: After parachuting into occupied France with his three cameras, he was to hide in front of the German lines at Normandy and film whatever happened on the beach. It was before dawn on June 6, 1944, and Hjorth was in the...
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Authority of LAPD Watchdog Is Cut Back
Authority of LAPD Watchdog Is Cut Back Los Angeles Police Commission President Edith Perez has restricted information on misconduct complaints available to the panel’s inspector general, a step both the civilian watchdog and police reform experts regard as a sharp reduction of the position’s powers. The new definition ...
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Sibling Rivalry May Ring In a Sumo Revival
Sibling Rivalry May Ring In a Sumo Revival There’s a heavyweight battle simmering in Japan’s center ring, an anything-but-friendly rivalry between sumo’s two most popular stars, Takanohana and Wakanohana--who happen to be brothers. But brotherly love apparently has degenerated into family feud, inciting a national sumo...
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Barred From World He Loved, Just Getting By Is a Trial
Barred From World He Loved, Just Getting By Is a Trial The name sounded familiar, but I couldn’t place Irving Kanarek. Even after several calls and letters, imploring me to air his gripe with the State Bar of California, the name still didn’t register. His grievance was too esoteric and I put him off--but his passion a...
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A Public-Housing Policy That Says Fewer Units Is More
A Public-Housing Policy That Says Fewer Units Is More Why, in the midst of a severe shortage of affordable housing, is Los Angeles demolishing badly needed public-housing units and replacing only two-thirds of them? According to the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), Mayor Richard Riordan and Andrew ...
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‘Inishmaan,’ on Closer Inspection
‘Inishmaan,’ on Closer Inspection Martin McDonagh has been riding the luck of the Irish for two years now. Just 28, the playwright shot to nearly instant fame in 1996 when his dark comedies, set in western Ireland, first hit London. Hailed as the heir to the John Millington Synge tradition, his lucky streak continued w...
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3 Men Held in Loansharking at Card Casinos
3 Men Held in Loansharking at Card Casinos Three men accused of targeting Asian American gamblers at Los Angeles-area casinos and offering loans at exorbitant rates were charged Tuesday with loan sharking and extortion. Authorities arrested the three men Friday and Saturday because of concerns that they may have been p...
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Exclusive Club Gains Two More
Exclusive Club Gains Two More If Bronswell Patrick and Eric Plunk had it to do over, they would put their pitches just a little further out of Sammy Sosa’s reach. Instead, the two Milwaukee Brewer relievers will go down as the guys who gave up home runs No. 61 and 62 to Sosa. “I’m not much of a sports fan,” said Plunk,...
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Seuss Rights Sold for Up to $9 Million
Seuss Rights Sold for Up to $9 Million In one of Hollywood’s biggest book auctions ever, Universal Pictures has agreed to pay as much as $9 million for the rights to two of Dr. Seuss’ classics: “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and “Oh, the Places You’ll Go.” The company negotiated the deal with the widow of Theodor Gei...
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Doctor Who Falsified Drug Tests Sentenced
Doctor Who Falsified Drug Tests Sentenced The president of a Whittier Research Company was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison Tuesday for falsifying results of human drug tests submitted to the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Robert A. Fiddes, 53, of Palos Verdes, pleaded guilty to a charge of making false stat...
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Problem Is on Paper
Problem Is on Paper This letter is a response to the article about the film “Disturbing Behavior” (“When Buzz and Test Scores Aren’t Good,” by Patrick Goldstein, Sept. 18). I am a film writer and director, having co-created the “Child’s Play” series. Having been involved in the production of four films, both as writer ...
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U.S. Considered ’64 Bombing to Keep China Nuclear-Free
U.S. Considered ’64 Bombing to Keep China Nuclear-Free Amid the utmost secrecy, top aides of President Lyndon B. Johnson agonized during the early months of 1964 over a single, preoccupying national security issue: Should the United States bomb China to stop it from becoming a nuclear power? “I’m for this,” scrawled Jo...
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County Pays Family Injured by Deputies in Cerritos Melee
County Pays Family Injured by Deputies in Cerritos Melee We know who Arthur Dole hopes won’t be dropping by when he hosts a big party celebrating the $25-million payment his family shared Tuesday: Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies. The last time deputies attended a Dole family get-together they came waving batons a...
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Renowned and in the Red, Marin Library in Danger of Closing
Renowned and in the Red, Marin Library in Danger of Closing An elderly Frank Lloyd Wright stood on a hillside in 1957 and envisioned government offices anchored by a cavernous domed library symbolizing a center of knowledge. Three decades later, Marin County is considering closing its main library, the center of the fa...
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Film Pioneer Ince’s Death Was Stuff of Movies
Film Pioneer Ince’s Death Was Stuff of Movies Over the past century, Hollywood has spun out at least three times as many legends as it has movies. But few are stranger than the myth of the murder that wasn’t, and the way in which fiction more titillating than fact ultimately subsumed the reputation of a pioneering film...
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Keeping Her Father’s Legacy Alive
Keeping Her Father’s Legacy Alive Tiffany Ward sees herself as caretaker of her father’s legacy and a stickler for detail. “It’s my responsibility to see that the ideals of the family are carried on,” said Ward, executive producer of “The Rocky & Bullwinkle Movie.” “That the look and feel remain true to the spirit of m...
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Grimsley Uncorks Confession in Case of Belle’s Missing Bat
Grimsley Uncorks Confession in Case of Belle’s Missing Bat The mystery of Albert Belle’s missing corked bat has been solved. Former Cleveland pitcher Jason Grimsley, now with the New York Yankees, crawled through the bowels of Comiskey Park five years ago to replace the corked bat of then-teammate Belle. The bat was be...
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‘Brownie Mary’ Rathbun Dies; Advocated Medical Marijuana
‘Brownie Mary’ Rathbun Dies; Advocated Medical Marijuana “Brownie Mary” Rathbun, the gray-haired rebel whose arrests for giving marijuana-laced brownies to dying AIDS patients bolstered the medicinal marijuana movement, died Saturday of a heart attack in a San Francisco nursing home. She was 77. Rathbun became a fixtur...
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Helen Lundeberg; Artist, Pioneer of the New Classicism Movement
Helen Lundeberg; Artist, Pioneer of the New Classicism Movement Painter Helen Lundeberg, a seminal figure in Los Angeles art history who in 1933 co-founded the New Classicism art movement, died here Monday of complications from pneumonia. She was 91. New Classicism, also known as Post-Surrealism, fused the fantastical ...
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California’s ‘Dead Sea’ Teems With Life
California’s ‘Dead Sea’ Teems With Life It’s one of the grand landscapes of the American West--an ancient lake cradled by volcanoes, glacier-carved canyons and snowy peaks. Visitors marvel at the eight-mile-long (north to south) and 13-mile-wide lake and its unusual tufa towers, remarkable limestone creations that rise...
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Inland Pacific, State Street Troupes Put Fresh Spin on Classic Themes
Inland Pacific, State Street Troupes Put Fresh Spin on Classic Themes Two 6-year-old dance companies--Inland Pacific Ballet, under artistic director Victoria Koenig, and State Street Ballet of Santa Barbara, led by Rodney Gustafson--are proving against all odds and naysayers that ballet is alive and kicking in Southern...
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Irvine-Based Continuus Plans Public Stock Offering
Irvine-Based Continuus Plans Public Stock Offering Continuus Software Corp., which makes programs to help companies utilize business-management software and develop Web sites, is planning an initial public offering that could raise as much as $40.5 million. The Irvine-based company plans to sell an unspecified number o...
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Rory Calhoun; Handsome Actor Starred in 1950s Westerns, TV Series
Rory Calhoun; Handsome Actor Starred in 1950s Westerns, TV Series Rory Calhoun, the handsome, lanky actor, producer, writer and rancher best remembered for his 1950s Western films and television series “The Texan,” died Wednesday. He was 76. Calhoun had been hospitalized for the last 10 days with advanced stages of emp...
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Mr. Judge Judy Gets a Show of His Own
Mr. Judge Judy Gets a Show of His Own It was not the typical ruling that Judge Judy Sheindlin is asked to make when her husband, jurist Jerry Sheindlin, asked if she’d mind yet another TV competitor. The New York State Supreme Court judge had been approached about picking up the gavel for “The People’s Court.” “She is ...
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Cue the Composer
Cue the Composer At the age of 5, Jerry Goldsmith sat in the last row of the Hollywood Bowl, listening to Jascha Heifetz and the Los Angeles Philharmonic play Brahms’ violin concerto. This week, he’s a lot closer to the action, conducting the Philharmonic in an evening of his own music--scores from such films as “L.A. ...
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9 Skydivers, Pilot Die When Plane Crashes in Michigan
9 Skydivers, Pilot Die When Plane Crashes in Michigan A plane carrying nine members of a skydiving group that was holding its annual camp-out crashed shortly after takeoff Saturday, killing all the passengers and the pilot, authorities said. The plane, a twin-engine Beech King Air 200, came down at 8:20 a.m. in a grass...
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Can’t Get Enough of Barrym Babe
Can’t Get Enough of Barrym Babe The voice is instantly recognizable--a rich, raspy, rumbling bass. It’s a voice that has become almost synonymous with seduction, and when Barry White smiles and says he’s happy to meet you, it’s easy to understand the reason why. Sitting in his Manhattan hotel suite, White looks like an...
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Zedillo Key to End of Prop. 187, Villaraigosa Says
Zedillo Key to End of Prop. 187, Villaraigosa Says California Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa thanked President Ernesto Zedillo here Tuesday for helping defuse Proposition 187, saying the Mexican leader played a key role in scuttling the controversial state measure that denied benefits to illegal immigrants. “As ...
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Film of JFK Assassination Brings Family $16 Million
Film of JFK Assassination Brings Family $16 Million The U.S. government was ordered Tuesday to pay the heirs of amateur filmmaker Abraham Zapruder $16 million for seizing one of the nation’s most macabre artifacts--the 26-second film capturing President John F. Kennedy’s final moments. An arbitration panel charged with...
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Sports Bras Are a Bust for Some
Sports Bras Are a Bust for Some Two women runners created the first one in 1977 by sewing together two jockstraps. One woman soccer player focused worldwide attention on the newest one by showing off her buff cups at the 1999 World Cup. In just over two decades, the sports bra has come a long way. Not since 19th centur...
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Speculation Grows on Rift Between Key Vanguard Group Executives
Speculation Grows on Rift Between Key Vanguard Group Executives Vanguard Group, the nation’s second-largest mutual fund company, suddenly is facing mounting speculation about a clash in its executive suite. Published comments by Vanguard’s founder and senior chairman, John C. Bogle Sr., suggest rising tension between B...