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e6aaeaa84af5bad024a1b5fc87b5428c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-07-ca-1574-story.html | TV Reviews : ‘Imagining America’: Four Riffs on a Common Theme | TV Reviews : ‘Imagining America’: Four Riffs on a Common Theme
Until this year’s “New York Stories,” one might have thought the anthology film was dead. Yet just as that movie revived the genre cinematically, “Imagining America,” which airs tonight at 9 on Channel 15 and at 10:35 on Channel 28, reinvigorates the format... |
c6528d3e533532593d00bff5a1e8a893 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-08-mn-2143-story.html | ENTERTAINMENT : Martin and Lewis Together Again | ENTERTAINMENT : Martin and Lewis Together Again
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, America’s most famous duo in the 1940s and 1950s, had a poignant reunion on a Las Vegas stage Wednesday night.
“Here’s to 72 years of joy you’ve given the world and why we broke up, I’ll never know,” Lewis told Martin as he presented him with ... |
45cbebcef9a944d6795cfa6026a2b30d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-09-ca-1504-story.html | TOGETHERNESS | TOGETHERNESS
Dean Martin got an unexpected birthday present Wednesday night in Las Vegas--a surprise visit from his old partner, Jerry Lewis. “Here’s to 72 years of joy you’ve given the world and why we broke up, I’ll never know,” Lewis told Martin as he walked on stage at the end of Martin’s performance at Bally’s Hot... |
5bf61a215e4dfaf753172a6da9777f3a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-11-mn-3189-story.html | T.A. Francois; Rights Lawyer, Ex-S.F. Supervisor | T.A. Francois; Rights Lawyer, Ex-S.F. Supervisor
Terry A. Francois, a civil rights lawyer who became the first black to sit on the city’s Board of Supervisors, died Friday of cancer. He was 67. Francois, who died at his San Francisco home after a five-year battle against cancer, served on the board for 14 years before ... |
e8075a787d915b47ae2f373af2baba35 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-11-mn-3235-story.html | Death Row Violence Part of Gang Power Struggle, San Quentin Officials Say | Death Row Violence Part of Gang Power Struggle, San Quentin Officials Say
While gang wars raged on the streets of Los Angeles, a little noticed though violent series of attacks broke out among members of the Crips gang imprisoned on San Quentin’s Death Row, prison officials say.
The battle reached its height last Octob... |
e2c4ad11c41df472f378219816562d07 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-14-me-1997-story.html | ‘Fame’ Actor Gets 28-Month Sentence for Driving Drunk | ‘Fame’ Actor Gets 28-Month Sentence for Driving Drunk
A co-star in the former television series “Fame” was sentenced Tuesday to 28 months in prison for felony drunk driving stemming from an accident in which a Studio City man and his two sons were seriously injured.
Kenneth C. Swofford, 55, who played a high school pri... |
8d8b8e83a3e1cb39c7de9d7cb7a6d047 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-15-ca-2638-story.html | Miles Davis to Get Intimate in San Juan’s Coach House | Miles Davis to Get Intimate in San Juan’s Coach House
Miles Davis, who over the decades has filled great auditoriums from here to Tokyo, will be facing a more intimate crowd tonight, at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano.
He doesn’t see anything remarkable in this. “I’ve worked there before,” he said. “There’s noth... |
1f75b14926ddcf2ba9c30d24a18eae90 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-16-fi-2184-story.html | Searle to Settle Some Copper-7 IUD Suits | Searle to Settle Some Copper-7 IUD Suits
G. D. Searle & Co. has agreed to settle all claims and lawsuits over alleged injury from the use of its Copper-7 contraceptive device that were brought by a law firm representing more than 100 such clients, a company spokeswoman said Thursday.
Searle spokeswoman Kay Bruno said t... |
a1624ceb9e25972868d3cbaab8a08cb7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-17-mn-1592-story.html | Tampa Experiment : Black Crime: Taking a Look Inward | Tampa Experiment : Black Crime: Taking a Look Inward
The scene had the lazy, easy mood of a Norman Rockwell painting: A 9-year-old, hooky-playing black boy climbing noiselessly in a tree in the early afternoon of a glaring, baked day in Tampa.
But down below, the mood was deadly serious for 42-year-old Wali Shabazz. Wh... |
9adcf896da5e9a3652a75268103313fd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-17-mn-1622-story.html | U.S. Vows to Lift 30-Year Veil of Secrecy at Weapons Plants | U.S. Vows to Lift 30-Year Veil of Secrecy at Weapons Plants
Facing a massive criminal investigation at its Rocky Flats facility, the Department of Energy vowed Friday to end more than 30 years of secrecy and silence cloaking its nuclear weapon plants and to place “environment, safety and public health” above production... |
b03263ed749afeb635ae12b6ff7ae0ee | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-21-mn-2392-story.html | Plundering the Pacific : Gill-Netters Churn Up an Outcry | Plundering the Pacific : Gill-Netters Churn Up an Outcry
In the South Pacific, they call it simply “the Wall of Death.”
Every evening at sunset during the summer fishing season, boats from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan unfurl spidery nets up to 35 miles long and 25 feet deep. In the morning, the nets are hauled in with... |
ea1f335657171d5edc5205dd56c8d843 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-23-mn-2683-story.html | Male Prostitute Who Killed 2 Homosexuals Executed | Male Prostitute Who Killed 2 Homosexuals Executed
Sean P. Flanagan, a male prostitute who turned to killing homosexuals, was executed by lethal injection early today, mouthing his last words, “I love you,” to the district attorney who prosecuted him for two murders.
Flanagan, 28, a homosexual foamer Marine, sang hymns ... |
09a49c6de22a8e9e15c9033898b54f26 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-25-mn-6438-story.html | Turmoil In China : Crackdown on Dissent : Jiang Zemin: Urbane but Hard-Line Technocrat | Turmoil In China : Crackdown on Dissent : Jiang Zemin: Urbane but Hard-Line Technocrat
Jiang Zemin, the Shanghai politician selected Saturday as the new head of the Chinese Communist Party, seemed for a few days this spring to have badly mishandled a controversial case of censorship.
As student-led pro-democracy protes... |
af05305e0727fca820da4d3a34f211f6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-29-sp-3793-story.html | Coach Denies Yugoslav Will Join Celtics : But Lakers’ Pick Will Be Permitted to Play in NBA | Coach Denies Yugoslav Will Join Celtics : But Lakers’ Pick Will Be Permitted to Play in NBA
Dino Radja, a center on Yugoslavia’s national basketball team who was drafted by the Boston Celtics on Tuesday, will not be allowed to join the NBA, his Yugoslav coach said today. But newspaper reports said Yugoslav center Vlade... |
9109be7e1b48a8c925c1e2f935017a51 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-30-sp-3091-story.html | Calling for safeguards against NBA raids on... | Calling for safeguards against NBA raids on...
Calling for safeguards against NBA raids on its players, a Yugoslav basketball team denied center Dino Radja permission to play for the Boston Celtics, who drafted him earlier this week.
Bozidar Maljkovic, Radja’s coach on the Jugoplastika team, said, “It would be a catast... |
2f4698ec3fd2cf325a070ceb4fe2a96d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-07-02-bk-4656-story.html | COUNT D’ORGEL’S BALL <i> by Raymond Radiguet translated by Annapaola Cancogni (Eridanos Press: $20; 174 pp.) </i> | COUNT D’ORGEL’S BALL <i> by Raymond Radiguet translated by Annapaola Cancogni (Eridanos Press: $20; 174 pp.) </i>
Raymond Radiguet produced two novels and a collection of poems before his death in 1923 at the age of 20, having already established acquaintance with some of the leading artists working in Paris at the tim... |
7ebcbb77b59bde7efaccf762cdcb34ea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-07-09-ca-5205-story.html | ‘Broccoli . . . Cubby Broccoli’ : How a Long Island vegetable farmer became the man who produced all of the real James Bond movies | ‘Broccoli . . . Cubby Broccoli’ : How a Long Island vegetable farmer became the man who produced all of the real James Bond movies
“Seventeen-eighteen years old, I was a fan of Lindbergh,” says Cubby Broccoli, the producer of 16 James Bond pictures, the most popular film series of all time. The one-time teen-aged truck... |
0224f6b98b6eb0bc2bcc17a21d3d64a0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-07-14-ca-3849-story.html | MOVIE REVIEWS : Revenge . . . and Romance : ‘Licence’: A Darker Version of Bond | MOVIE REVIEWS : Revenge . . . and Romance : ‘Licence’: A Darker Version of Bond
Time marches, age withers and everything falls into decay . . . except James Bond, still spruce and deadly after all these years.
The series has been with us since 1962 and, like many another old timer, tends to repeat itself. Yet, every on... |
46dadc75897850742d9ba9bd8beb3ac7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-07-16-we-5520-story.html | Nothing’s Permanent : Fairfax Beauty Shop Closing After 43 Years | Nothing’s Permanent : Fairfax Beauty Shop Closing After 43 Years
The Leader Beauty Shop, a Fairfax Avenue institution where ladies of a certain age have been getting their hair and nails done since 1946, is closing its doors in September.
No longer will clients sit for hours and gab in curlers under rows of cone-shaped... |
2f1df52237070cb461541a093edb09f7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-07-20-mn-5179-story.html | Horror Stories of War in Afghanistan Related by Soviet Veterans | Horror Stories of War in Afghanistan Related by Soviet Veterans
A Soviet newspaper this week published two Soviet veterans’ accounts of Red Army soldiers beating prisoners, trading submachine guns for Soviet turncoats and barely surviving attacks by their own helicopters.
The daring weekly Moscow News carried the war s... |
22b548b3b3869ff5d579c91c7335b7b8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-02-sp-704-story.html | THE SIDELINES : Boston Celtics Sign Dino Radja | THE SIDELINES : Boston Celtics Sign Dino Radja
The Boston Celtics, taking the view that 6-foot-10 Dino Radja was an amateur with his former Yugoslavian basketball club, have signed him to a one-year contract in the very professional National Basketball Assn.
“I feel very nice now,” said Radja after his first official N... |
41ee12a981d60f7efb4f2d8f53f00f01 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-05-mn-433-story.html | Vicious ‘Red Command’ : The Gang That Taught Terror to Rio | Vicious ‘Red Command’ : The Gang That Taught Terror to Rio
The apartment house holdup on Sorocaba Street was typical of the notorious Red Command, the gang that changed Rio de Janeiro.
Springing a flimsy lock on the building’s heavy glass door at 5 a.m. on July 9, eight gunmen barged in and quickly took charge of the g... |
0a955f7bb2a2cf994d5d1e5497ae96c0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-06-sp-366-story.html | SAFER AT ANY SPEED : Many of the Dangerous Risks in Indy Car Racing Are Eliminated by Design | SAFER AT ANY SPEED : Many of the Dangerous Risks in Indy Car Racing Are Eliminated by Design
Shorty Cantlon was going about 100 m.p.h. when he swerved to avoid Bill Holland’s spinning car in 1947 and rammed the concrete wall at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The car remained upright, spun around and smacked the wall agai... |
0fc02b131b14f69870ca9ae926356977 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-10-mn-23-story.html | Morris Shenker, 82; Hoffa Attorney, Ex-Dunes Owner | Morris Shenker, 82; Hoffa Attorney, Ex-Dunes Owner
Morris Shenker, an attorney best known for representing Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa, and a former owner of the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas has died, it was reported Wednesday.
A spokesman for his firm said Shenker, 82, who had recently undergone heart surgery and who wore a... |
f40e13bc2f52a18d3ef0f9d4a7158cfd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-10-sp-312-story.html | Big East Approves Six-Foul Rule | Big East Approves Six-Foul Rule
The Big East Conference will allow basketball players six fouls instead of five next season in an experiment that critics say will hurt underdogs by making it harder to get other teams’ star players out of games.
The six-foul rule and the proposed use of the 45-second clock rather than a... |
9eb6fe1021b83b7419e0468115069935 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-14-mn-369-story.html | Controversial Nobel Laureate Shockley Dies | Controversial Nobel Laureate Shockley Dies
Nobel Prize-winning physicist William B. Shockley--whose breakthrough work on the electronic transistor was overshadowed by his inflammatory views that blacks are genetically inferior to whites--has died at his home on the Stanford University campus, university officials annou... |
a65ebb3260e1a7f839a56c2d64740245 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-15-mn-469-story.html | Night Stalker Juror Fatally Shot at Home : Killing, Apparently in Domestic Quarrel, Is Not Tied to Serial Murders; Effect on Trial Unclear | Night Stalker Juror Fatally Shot at Home : Killing, Apparently in Domestic Quarrel, Is Not Tied to Serial Murders; Effect on Trial Unclear
A juror in the Night Stalker trial was found shot to death in her Carson apartment Monday, the apparent victim of a domestic quarrel unrelated to the serial-murder case now being de... |
bbe91d8e2f7dc1d1459ad58d65efafa9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-16-mn-545-story.html | Chinese Airliner Falters on Takeoff, Plunges Into Shanghai River; 18 Die | Chinese Airliner Falters on Takeoff, Plunges Into Shanghai River; 18 Die
A Chinese passenger plane faltered during takeoff Tuesday and plunged into a river near the Shanghai airport, killing 18 people, the official New China news agency reported.
Television news said the Antonov-24, a twin turboprop of Soviet design, c... |
26bb342ccf260e7905401382ac89ec97 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-16-vw-680-story.html | For Some, Dolphins Bring Spiritual Inspiration | For Some, Dolphins Bring Spiritual Inspiration
To a secluded beach in Kauai, Swiss Yoga teacher Kutira Decosterd leads the faithful as if to Mecca. They bring their “oceanic Tantra” rituals, their drums, their Australian aborigine dolphin-calling sticks.
Off the Orange County coast, Bob Dennis, a former director of fan... |
b9829e010f01c8c89ce96aa1ddb50ce9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-17-ca-948-story.html | Jazz Drummer Tony Williams: A Lifetime of Risky Riffs | Jazz Drummer Tony Williams: A Lifetime of Risky Riffs
“Every time I go on stage to play, I’m risking,” declared jazz drummer/bandleader Tony Williams. “That’s part of my job and part of my makeup. That’s what I do best and it’s part of the way I play.
“I recently got into the stock market and it’s a hobby now. The stoc... |
fc9e58e1142d18f00e01ee217e57a027 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-18-ca-437-story.html | MOVIE REVIEW : DePalma’s Dark Victory | MOVIE REVIEW : DePalma’s Dark Victory
In the late ‘60s, TV coverage of the Vietnam War gave it the repetitiveness of a bad dream. That’s probably what Brian DePalma is after in “Casualties of War” (citywide): a nightmare, reeking with blood, tears and cold sweat.
Taken from a real-life incident, DePalma’s movie turns i... |
b27a677a2453e617a80d1bb4c7295165 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-18-sp-808-story.html | Dallas Green Is Out, Bucky Dent Is In as Manager of Yankees | Dallas Green Is Out, Bucky Dent Is In as Manager of Yankees
George Steinbrenner fired Dallas Green today and hired Bucky Dent, the 17th time the owner has changed managers since buying the New York Yankees in 1973.
Green took over the team at the start of the season and was given a two-year contract. But with the Yanke... |
a0f664aa2754fec6f04399e8cae67267 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-19-me-448-story.html | Bardo Illegally Extradited, His Lawyer Charges | Bardo Illegally Extradited, His Lawyer Charges
A defense attorney for the man accused of murdering actress Rebecca Schaeffer asked Friday that the case against his client be dropped, charging that Robert John Bardo was illegally extradited from Arizona to Los Angeles.
Deputy Public Defender Stephen E. Galindo argued th... |
8e512a6c3a566af5a2d338e6894230c2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-20-ga-1180-story.html | Aspirants Sign Up for School Board Races | Aspirants Sign Up for School Board Races
Filing for Nov. 7 school board elections in the San Gabriel Valley closed last week with three districts--Hacienda La Puente, Mountain View and South Pasadena--tying for the biggest field of candidates, drawing eight candidates each.
In South Pasadena, where there was a brief te... |
1eb2092712de073707e02d0d1f92bba8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-20-me-1216-story.html | Applications Hit Record Highs for U.S. Law Schools : Increase Attributed to Impact of Television Hit ‘L.A. Law’ | Applications Hit Record Highs for U.S. Law Schools : Increase Attributed to Impact of Television Hit ‘L.A. Law’
For the first time in more than 15 years, law school applications in the United States are breaking records.
At the California Western School of Law in San Diego the expectation of a record number of first-ye... |
1a7f238288175544cc3d43ab4a48cfe1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-22-vw-1071-story.html | Pastor’s Wife: Arsenic and Old Lace? | Pastor’s Wife: Arsenic and Old Lace?
She seemed a perfect bride for the minister: pretty, friendly, outgoing and at age 56, she had a sweet voice for hymns.
So it came as a shock when police said that she had poisoned the pastor with arsenic as soon as they got back from their honeymoon. The pastor, the Rev. Dwight W. ... |
baa938a77f618eff321d2f7c2a3f1307 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-24-vw-1458-story.html | Welcome to Seattle--Now Go Home : California Emigres Meet New Hostility in Idyllic Northwest | Welcome to Seattle--Now Go Home : California Emigres Meet New Hostility in Idyllic Northwest
Mt. Rainier wears a permanent skirt of smog. Developers are turning the Seattle suburbs into a replica of Orange County.
And every time there’s a multivehicle smashup on the Evergreen floating bridge, commuters trapped in their... |
cb51dbc811b1ac5feb35c7e9b4e0a300 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-25-me-1130-story.html | Bill to Ban Guards at Polls Goes to Governor | Bill to Ban Guards at Polls Goes to Governor
The state Senate on Thursday gave final approval to a bill, inspired by a controversial Orange County election, that would make it a felony to post uniformed security guards within 100 feet of polling places.
The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Milton Marks (D-San Francisco), ... |
725f96c5e34ae57556d88db7e9fa7dc5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-27-ca-1594-story.html | ELTON JOHN “Sleeping With the Past.” MCA ** 1/2: <i> Albums are rated on a scale of one (poor) to five (a classic) stars.</i> | ELTON JOHN “Sleeping With the Past.” MCA ** 1/2: <i> Albums are rated on a scale of one (poor) to five (a classic) stars.</i>
While they dedicate this album to soul music pioneers, Elton John and Bernie Taupin are still sleeping comfortably in the cushiony, well-constructed bed of their accustomed uptown-pop digs inste... |
626606d9018f621cde27aa7566ed42ba | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-30-ca-1435-story.html | 2 Joffrey Dancers Hail Ballet Pacifica Date as Challenge | 2 Joffrey Dancers Hail Ballet Pacifica Date as Challenge
One of the dangers of being in a repertory company is that you can get typecast. Tina LeBlanc and Edward Stierle--members of the Joffrey Ballet--for instance, have reputations for speed, virtuosity and persuasive characterization.
No one associates them with the ... |
e3bb6b298ea22ca9ac98e885710879fe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-30-mn-1310-story.html | Scars of War Linger on People, Land : Poland 50 Years Later: Enduring Sense of Loss | Scars of War Linger on People, Land : Poland 50 Years Later: Enduring Sense of Loss
The marker stands, like a gravestone, on the corner of a grimy back street lined with auto repair yards and machine shops. Its inscription says that on this spot, in August, 1944, 150 Poles were killed fighting “soldiers of Hitler’s arm... |
a8de674abd9dbb85c54deb20a4698332 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-31-vw-1627-story.html | Behind the Scenes of ‘Old House’ Cleaning | Behind the Scenes of ‘Old House’ Cleaning
For countless gentrifiers saddled with sagging roofs and warped floors, Bob Vila, host of the Public Broadcasting Service’s series, “This Old House,” is a hero.
He was, as the August-September issue of Boston Business magazine puts it, “the Superman of do-it-yourself TV, swoopi... |
049bcfc3deb42cb9c43a66f36ce29fd9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-09-mn-1567-story.html | Woman’s Killing a Mistake, IRA Says | Woman’s Killing a Mistake, IRA Says
The outlawed Irish Republican Army said Friday that a British soldier’s wife was shot and killed in the mistaken belief that she was a member of the British armed forces.
Thursday night’s slaying was the third IRA attack in two weeks but the first killing of a woman civilian in years... |
1ed5b28471e7029bc6266a3567735bfb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-10-tm-2498-story.html | Hazardous Duty : Lifeguards Take Cover With Sunscreens, Shirts and Shades | Hazardous Duty : Lifeguards Take Cover With Sunscreens, Shirts and Shades
ASK SANTA Monica State Beach lifeguard Jackie Burke about her skin-care routine and she starts spouting off SPF numbers. “A 40 on my lips, 30 on my face, 15 on my arms and chest and 6 on my legs,” says the blue-eyed blonde just before ripping off... |
3feb221d413eca61b18811fb45a9ed5b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-15-li-399-story.html | Voices From the ‘Nadir’ of Black History | Voices From the ‘Nadir’ of Black History
The years between 1877 and 1915, as UC Irvine Prof. Dickson D. Bruce Jr. points out in his new book, was a period of such rancorous white racism that one historian labeled it the “nadir” of black American history.
The period from the end of Reconstruction to World War I was a ti... |
105888bb43c4a7e26ee84d1a61b8f55c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-21-me-1003-story.html | Bookstore Fights Claims That It Attracts Hustlers | Bookstore Fights Claims That It Attracts Hustlers
Its admirers hail Circus of Books as being among the few places on the Westside where one can go to buy a novel, a foreign newspaper or even a Bible during the wee hours.
Others have long insisted that the 24-hour West Hollywood book store, which also offers a back shop... |
da6af96fc2fcecfc5dfc80b7c81abfb6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-21-mn-1148-story.html | NAMES IN THE NEWS : Exhausted Streep Quits ‘Evita’ Film | NAMES IN THE NEWS : Exhausted Streep Quits ‘Evita’ Film
Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep has withdrawn from the film version of “Evita,” citing exhaustion, and the film has been postponed until a new star is found, the producers said today.
Director Oliver Stone said Wednesday: “I still want very much to see ... |
96800481cc3b503b7e40e2e187d68c43 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-22-mn-711-story.html | Judge’s Fitness for Ethics Post Questioned | Judge’s Fitness for Ethics Post Questioned
A fundamentalist Baptist leader who was President Bush’s choice to head the Office of Government Ethics may be eliminated from consideration because of unspecified ethics problems uncovered by an FBI background check, Administration officials confirmed Thursday.
Results of the... |
7a02f0d3b5dacb83dc49fe05a7f8d7be | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-24-sp-453-story.html | Big Eight Roundup : Nebraska Buries Minnesota, 48-0 | Big Eight Roundup : Nebraska Buries Minnesota, 48-0
Ken Clark ran 18 times for 100 yards and two touchdowns Saturday night as No. 3 Nebraska avoided a slow start for the first time this season and beat Minnesota, 48-0, at Minneapolis.
Clark has rushed for 398 yards in three games and has 2,239 career yards, moving him ... |
54798732bc277fd92d3d5a3fc81b3661 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-24-tm-0-story.html | Cocktails and Conga Lines - Hostess Jean Howard’s Party Shots Caught Hollywood Off Guard in a More Glamorous Age | Cocktails and Conga Lines - Hostess Jean Howard’s Party Shots Caught Hollywood Off Guard in a More Glamorous Age
THE LOW, SPRAWLING Spanish-style house, hidden by tall hedges along Coldwater Canyon, has been the scene of some of Hollywood’s most glamorous parties. The stars who passed through its doors included Tyrone ... |
0401de5ad06b9acfb98e8d0927588cda | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-26-sp-374-story.html | U.S. Court Bars Yugoslav Star From Joining Celtics | U.S. Court Bars Yugoslav Star From Joining Celtics
A federal judge today barred Yugoslav basketball star Dino Radja from playing for the Boston Celtics, accusing the U.S. team of “contract poaching.”
U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock granted an injunction sought by Jugoplastika, the 1988-89 Yugoslav and Europe... |
58af11883dbe93a95558fcfb8a485d48 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-28-fi-409-story.html | ANALYSIS : Biggest Failure Pushed Sony to Latest Success | ANALYSIS : Biggest Failure Pushed Sony to Latest Success
Sony Corp., the company that came so triumphantly to Hollywood on Wednesday, shelling out $3.4 billion to buy Columbia Pictures, is now a $16-billion (sales) giant in two industries, entertainment and electronics. It’s both the world’s largest record producer and... |
5e620a3ebbea9a7dcb077d53c46f77fa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-29-me-216-story.html | More Than 1,600 Artworks Seized : Suspected Fakes Confiscated in Raids on Galleries, Homes | More Than 1,600 Artworks Seized : Suspected Fakes Confiscated in Raids on Galleries, Homes
It is believed to be one of the largest confiscations ever of suspected fraudulent art, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates said Thursday after detectives seized more than 1,600 art prints and other works in a series of raids... |
0677c94c4a097296f19a49847adfaa08 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-05-me-740-story.html | “Hey, big deal. Death always went with... | “Hey, big deal. Death always went with...
“Hey, big deal. Death always went with the territory. . . . I’ll see you in Disneyland.”
Convicted “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez, commenting Wednesday moments after a jury recommended that he die in San Quentin’s gas chamber for his savage crimes.
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381ed4026575522fa05d775d66f78f05 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-07-mn-635-story.html | Lebanon’s Long Civil War Has Robbed Beirut’s Children of Their Youth | Lebanon’s Long Civil War Has Robbed Beirut’s Children of Their Youth
Rima Torbay is 24. She never was a teen-ager.
“I was 11 years old when the war began,” Torbay explained, recalling the fighting that severed Beirut at the outset of the Lebanese conflict in 1975-76. “We lived on the demarcation line. There the shootin... |
83b3a2f5ff57e85bd6d08c4b38c07f07 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-07-sp-585-story.html | Sun Devils Figure to Get a Few Kicks From Their Australian | Sun Devils Figure to Get a Few Kicks From Their Australian
If UCLA really is more than two touchdowns better than Arizona State, as oddsmakers would have us believe, the most interesting aspect of tonight’s game at the Rose Bowl might be the punting of Arizona State’s Brad Williams.
Maybe it will be, anyway.
Williams, ... |
def020a9a0687c7af0f4c29c4f01363d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-08-ca-70-story.html | Byrne Solos for a New Family of Man : DAVID BYRNE “Rei Momo.” Fly/Sire *** 1/2 | Byrne Solos for a New Family of Man : DAVID BYRNE “Rei Momo.” Fly/Sire *** 1/2
The most telling title on Byrne’s first conventional (at least by Byrne standards) solo album is “Don’t Want to Be Part of Your World.” The song’s call for retreat from the everyday horrors of our world--reminiscent of Steely Dan’s claim tha... |
cc4b30f7ddfc19cf401b13539db56079 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-08-mn-331-story.html | Argentina Pardons ‘Dirty War’ Figures | Argentina Pardons ‘Dirty War’ Figures
President Carlos Saul Menem, saying he wanted to heal lingering wounds, announced pardons Saturday for 39 military and police commanders charged in the killings of thousands of civilians in Argentina’s “dirty war” against left-wing subversion in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Menem als... |
75596842ca8af01700838c3c11d95f77 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-08-sp-435-story.html | Upper-Deck Home Run Doesn’t Measure Up for Canseco | Upper-Deck Home Run Doesn’t Measure Up for Canseco
In describing it, others seemed to do a better job than Jose Canseco, who launched a monster home run in the third inning of Saturday’s fifth American League playoff game.
For instance, Billy Beane, the Oakland A’s reserve first baseman, shook his head and said: “That ... |
87ce26c67cf6a465baf408a11a85ad58 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-12-mn-545-story.html | NATION : Accidental Shelling Kills Officer | NATION : Accidental Shelling Kills Officer
An officer was killed and a sailor was injured when a Navy vessel was accidentally shelled by another ship during gunnery exercises in the Atlantic 80 miles off the Virginia coast.
Shells from the amphibious cargo ship El Paso struck the flight deck and bridge of the amphibiou... |
f75ae31beed2d1b98351d75601f682fd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-13-ca-317-story.html | Now Hard Rockers, Rappers Spread AIDS Warning Too | Now Hard Rockers, Rappers Spread AIDS Warning Too
The older, mainstream contingent of the pop world--including Dionne Warwick, Elton John and Stevie Wonder--has been active in raising public awareness of AIDS, but the hard-core rock community has been slow to speak out.
That’s why a Music Against Aids memorabilia aucti... |
b7417d6f176d2f0575c00f13bc1dfb2b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-13-sp-229-story.html | Rowe Charged With Cocaine Possession | Rowe Charged With Cocaine Possession
Former UCLA basketball player Curtis Rowe has been charged with possession of cocaine after police said they saw him and a companion throw packets of drugs on the ground.
Rowe, 40, faces an Oct. 24 preliminary examination on the charge, which carries a maximum sentence of four years... |
26deaa90bdf2531136204d874054d506 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-15-bk-140-story.html | Of Noah and the Worm : A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 1/2 CHAPTERS <i> by Julian Bonds (Alfred A. Knopf: $18.95; 309 pp.) </i> | Of Noah and the Worm : A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 1/2 CHAPTERS <i> by Julian Bonds (Alfred A. Knopf: $18.95; 309 pp.) </i>
Are there as many worlds as there are people? Something like 4 billion? You wouldn’t say so riding a New York subway or oozing tectonically along the Ventura Freeway. You would say there was only... |
08b951ba3ef388daa1488050ebdc4510 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-16-me-16-story.html | Police Power Magnifies Harm of Lying : Law: Police do commit perjury, and neither their superiors nor the courts seem to care much. But lying by keepers of the law perverts justice. | Police Power Magnifies Harm of Lying : Law: Police do commit perjury, and neither their superiors nor the courts seem to care much. But lying by keepers of the law perverts justice.
A Los Angeles Police Department Board of Rights found an officer guilty this summer of making false statements in an affidavit used to obt... |
ebea45099977a0a6ddcaf6992427d401 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-16-me-99-story.html | SCIENCE / MEDICINE : Intestinal Parasites Plague Third World : Health: A little-recognized problem is considered a roadblock to progress in developing nations. | SCIENCE / MEDICINE : Intestinal Parasites Plague Third World : Health: A little-recognized problem is considered a roadblock to progress in developing nations.
The Third World is faced with numerous health and economic problems, but there is one little-recognized scourge that represents a significant roadblock to futur... |
bac938b8d474e675d886fbe7421f6075 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-17-me-191-story.html | PLACENTIA : Scouts Aid Landlocked Surf Team | PLACENTIA : Scouts Aid Landlocked Surf Team
Surfers in the sleepy, inland city of Placentia can almost hear the waves--long before the sun comes up--when they rise to head for the beach.
Almost--the nearest beach is 24 miles away. But that has not daunted a small group of dedicated surfers at El Dorado High School who ... |
450ed5400706ef80fb6397433e6a6c39 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-20-ca-252-story.html | STAGE REVIEW : ‘Ideal’: A Tour de Force From Ayn Rand | STAGE REVIEW : ‘Ideal’: A Tour de Force From Ayn Rand
A heretofore unproduced play from the bin of Ayn Rand, of all people, has opened at the Melrose Theatre. Rand was 29 and a struggling novelist in Hollywood in 1934 when she wrote “Ideal,” a play about a movie star and her hypocritical fans.
The production is an ambi... |
7431304888f1b1b30539b684c71f25db | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-20-la-et-stones1989-story.html | 1989: Still the Greatest | 1989: Still the Greatest
The winner and still champ: the Rolling Stones.
On a night when rock ‘n’ roll’s most celebrated survivors played with such passion and fire at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum that they looked as though they could go on convincingly for another 10 years, Guns N’ Roses, the young Los Angeles ro... |
628aa5f037899eaef1316f7002c29e77 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-20-mn-142-story.html | BAY AREA QUAKE : Inspectors Had Rated Nimitz Sound : Safety: Regular checks had turned up cracks and chips in the concrete pillars, but a Caltrans aide says they did not contribute to the freeway’s collapse. | BAY AREA QUAKE : Inspectors Had Rated Nimitz Sound : Safety: Regular checks had turned up cracks and chips in the concrete pillars, but a Caltrans aide says they did not contribute to the freeway’s collapse.
Regular state inspections of the section of the Nimitz Freeway that collapsed in Tuesday’s earthquake found the ... |
9d89a861a8072983c5138e9ef94eb0ca | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-22-ca-1125-story.html | John Clifford Is Eyeing a Comeback | John Clifford Is Eyeing a Comeback
These days, John Clifford travels a lot, both as a free-lance choreographer and as an official representative of the George Balanchine Trust.
He has lately been in Milan, Italy, staging Balanchine works on the La Scala Ballet. This week, following a fortnight of heavy Balanchine activ... |
9529d4f069b0765d4fac7c38e0a17d9f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-22-op-723-story.html | Latino Leaders Should Decide Who Has Claim to Their Allegiance : Health: Beer and cigarette makers give big bucks to groups that shill for them. The community will pay a cost later. | Latino Leaders Should Decide Who Has Claim to Their Allegiance : Health: Beer and cigarette makers give big bucks to groups that shill for them. The community will pay a cost later.
The next time you attend a Cinco de Mayo ceremony, or practically any other public Latino celebration, don’t be surprised if you think you... |
5822debfc0cd031367c7690c934e6702 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-23-fi-379-story.html | Unocal’s Geothermal Projects Are Gaining Steam | Unocal’s Geothermal Projects Are Gaining Steam
Unocal Corp. has given a new meaning to the term steaming jungle.
Amid the rain forests of the Philippines, the company has tapped into a source of energy more primordial than oil or natural gas: the heat of the earth’s crust itself, manifested in super-hot water and billo... |
0bbdf77e9817a5cff8525dbdd6ac69c4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-28-mn-690-story.html | WORLD IN BRIEF : IRELAND : IRA Kills British Airman, Daughter | WORLD IN BRIEF : IRELAND : IRA Kills British Airman, Daughter
The outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the killing of a British airman and his 6-month-old daughter in West Germany. In a statement issued in Dublin, the guerrilla group expressed regret for the infant’s death and said its members were... |
e564c8a05d62a191ad43d17fd36d6bba | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-29-fi-568-story.html | Millions Burned as Real Estate Partnerships Fizzle : Investment: All those people who benefited from depreciation now find those huge write-offs coming back to haunt them in the form of higher taxes. | Millions Burned as Real Estate Partnerships Fizzle : Investment: All those people who benefited from depreciation now find those huge write-offs coming back to haunt them in the form of higher taxes.
Real estate limited partnerships, the sizzling tax-shelter investment strategy of the early 1980s, are leaving millions ... |
c58b1dade47b6f78894f889afe1dc1cc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-29-sp-393-story.html | PACIFIC 10 ROUNDUP : Justin and Fair Lead Arizona State, 44-39 | PACIFIC 10 ROUNDUP : Justin and Fair Lead Arizona State, 44-39
Paul Justin completed 33 of 47 passes for a school-record 534 yards and four touchdowns and Ron Fair had a school and conference-record 19 catches for 277 yards and three touchdowns as Arizona State upset No. 23 Washington State, 44-39, in a Pacific 10 game... |
146af3ee173e08919c3d7cb01c8c7481 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-05-ca-1727-story.html | Hopper’s Odyssey--From Hell to Texas : Dennis Hopper has experienced acting success, druggy exile, psychiatric wards and now he’s directing ‘Hot Spot’ | Hopper’s Odyssey--From Hell to Texas : Dennis Hopper has experienced acting success, druggy exile, psychiatric wards and now he’s directing ‘Hot Spot’
A fake sawmill is perched in the middle of a cow pasture in the middle of Texas in the middle of the night. Lights bounce off the foggy blackness, the eerie glow attract... |
bde8fe15b4fed8707b430ebeee1b19d3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-05-tm-1172-story.html | THE $64,000 QUESTION : HOW DID THE ‘50s QUIZ-SHOW SCANDAL ENSNARE A TENNESSEE MINISTER? | THE $64,000 QUESTION : HOW DID THE ‘50s QUIZ-SHOW SCANDAL ENSNARE A TENNESSEE MINISTER?
IT WAS THE best and worst of times, the age of wisdom and folly, the epoch of “The $64,000 Question” and “The $64,000 Challenge.” It was the season of “Twenty-One,” the spring of “Tic Tac Dough,” the winter of “Dotto.”
We had excite... |
2126dfa15341fe9ad7dc2949bb299b51 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-10-vw-1231-story.html | Cowboys Get Cool by Design : Fashion: Designer Manuel Cuevas and country-Western singer Dwight Yoakam team up to cash in on the demand for stylish Western wear. | Cowboys Get Cool by Design : Fashion: Designer Manuel Cuevas and country-Western singer Dwight Yoakam team up to cash in on the demand for stylish Western wear.
In his showroom of sequins and serapes, Manuel Cuevas--the clothier of cowboy cool--flips through color glossies of duded up Dwight Yoakam, the country-Western... |
935fed825c6c3dc8c33d6172b2c5b1af | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-12-me-2344-story.html | Values and Victories : Family: Christina and Michael Shea say traditional values, not prejudice, motivated their leadership of Measure N. The momentum of victory and a possible political race are clearly on their minds. | Values and Victories : Family: Christina and Michael Shea say traditional values, not prejudice, motivated their leadership of Measure N. The momentum of victory and a possible political race are clearly on their minds.
Two days after the election, Emmet Davis walked across Whistling Isle, a street of nearly identical ... |
65c5e444f8650eee46301e1a531f3b9c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-13-mn-1004-story.html | Pro-Choice Advocates Rally Coast-to-Coast : Abortion: Hundreds of thousands gather in 120 cities. Politicians are put on notice for coming elections. | Pro-Choice Advocates Rally Coast-to-Coast : Abortion: Hundreds of thousands gather in 120 cities. Politicians are put on notice for coming elections.
From the Lincoln Memorial to the Golden Gate Bridge, abortion rights advocates rallied Sunday by the hundreds of thousands, warning politicians that they will be holding ... |
622d97ecfb7de83dbe3396f66de90367 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-13-mn-1068-story.html | Pro-Choice Rally Draws Thousands : Abortion: Rancho Park gathering features dozens of politicians and Hollywood celebrities, including Jesse Jackson. | Pro-Choice Rally Draws Thousands : Abortion: Rancho Park gathering features dozens of politicians and Hollywood celebrities, including Jesse Jackson.
Pro-choice activists flocked by the thousands to Rancho Park on Sunday for a star-studded rally that featured dozens of politicians and Hollywood celebrities--from the ca... |
73524c995ec3745c120a5d9360551a3c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-15-ca-1886-story.html | Cable Comedy--Will HBO Have the Last Laugh? : Television: The 24-hour Comedy Channel premieres tonight, but Viacom has plans to launch its own comedy channel, HA!, in the spring. | Cable Comedy--Will HBO Have the Last Laugh? : Television: The 24-hour Comedy Channel premieres tonight, but Viacom has plans to launch its own comedy channel, HA!, in the spring.
Did you hear the one about the two cable comedy channels? They’re trying to beat each other to the punch-line.
Home Box Office tonight launch... |
292638ab7a2780b3bee4a62c13c46982 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-20-fi-193-story.html | Hardly Playing Games : Toys: It’s serious business as Nintendo’s Game Boy goes head to head with Atari’s Lynx. The products differ, but both firms hope to expand beyond the traditional teen male market. | Hardly Playing Games : Toys: It’s serious business as Nintendo’s Game Boy goes head to head with Atari’s Lynx. The products differ, but both firms hope to expand beyond the traditional teen male market.
Two consumer electronics companies are vying to make video games more alluring than ever this Christmas by introducin... |
f5f5fa9561f601f1000cc1538fb90c44 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-25-ca-299-story.html | Rush Limbaugh Gives Liberals the Business, Gets Plenty Himself : Radio: The conservative talk-show host, whose program is nationally syndicated, is a major commercial enterprise. | Rush Limbaugh Gives Liberals the Business, Gets Plenty Himself : Radio: The conservative talk-show host, whose program is nationally syndicated, is a major commercial enterprise.
One moment he claims to be “on the cutting edge of societal evolution,” and the next he assures his radio listeners that he is “your epitome ... |
b41efeb2da867a2ed169870abaf2ed4f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-26-sp-392-story.html | Miami Exacts Its Revenge, 27-10 : Hurricanes: Seventh-ranked squad ends Notre Dame’s winning streak and reign as top-ranked team. | Miami Exacts Its Revenge, 27-10 : Hurricanes: Seventh-ranked squad ends Notre Dame’s winning streak and reign as top-ranked team.
At last, Lou Holtz has a real reason to whine about his Notre Dame team.
In the course of an evening, Notre Dame (11-1) bid farewell to its No. 1 ranking, its 23-game winning streak (the nat... |
0e184b50afc96f77a58604e7434cb062 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-02-mn-351-story.html | Obituary : Alvin Ailey Jr., 58; Founder of Famed Modern Dance Company | Obituary : Alvin Ailey Jr., 58; Founder of Famed Modern Dance Company
Alvin Ailey Jr., founder of the internationally renowned modern dance company that bears his name, died Friday in a New York City hospital of a blood disorder, said a spokeswoman for the dance company. He was 58.
Ailey, who died about 4:55 p.m. at Le... |
0fc1fe8e45922c025db509a9b0cb7ac7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-03-mn-406-story.html | Rare S. Africa Case: Parents of Victim Prosecute Police | Rare S. Africa Case: Parents of Victim Prosecute Police
Operation Spookvoertuig--Ghost Vehicle--was simple. A soldier and seven policemen armed with Beretta pump-action shotguns hid in crates on a flatbed truck and trolled slowly through the volatile township, waiting for someone to throw the first stone.
Sure enough, ... |
6b7882082daad7cc208dbb919ecc55ab | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-04-ca-289-story.html | Prince Wins Court Appeal on ‘U Got The Look’ Lyrics | Prince Wins Court Appeal on ‘U Got The Look’ Lyrics
Rock star Prince won a legal battle today as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to revive a copyright-infringement lawsuit over his hit song “U Got The Look.”
The court, without comment, let stand decisions dismissing claims by Prince’s half-sister, Lorna Nelson of Minnea... |
008f27707a186285009f95ab82479f04 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-04-ca-296-story.html | SHORT TAKES : ‘Back to Future’ Falls Off; Still Leads Box Office Pack | SHORT TAKES : ‘Back to Future’ Falls Off; Still Leads Box Office Pack
Universal’s “Back to the Future Part II,” which toppled box-office records last weekend with a five-day holiday opening of $43 million, fell more than 70% this weekend but led the box office with an estimated $12.1 million, according to Exhibitor Rel... |
d3480888a0a32a09f343121d481a830d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-05-me-331-story.html | The ‘Anybody But Cory’ Coup : Philippines: A convergence of President Aquino’s weakness and the strength of her rivals has come within a hairbreadth of toppling her government. And she may not last. | The ‘Anybody But Cory’ Coup : Philippines: A convergence of President Aquino’s weakness and the strength of her rivals has come within a hairbreadth of toppling her government. And she may not last.
Col. Gregorio (Gringo) Honasan, the populist right-wing leader of the catastrophic and nearly successful uprising here, d... |
68f9553412888c1ee63f30d8538ca507 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-08-ca-396-story.html | Big F Turns Back on Heavy Metal Fashion Mode | Big F Turns Back on Heavy Metal Fashion Mode
It is hard to say which Southern California institution is the most scandalously bankrupt: Lincoln Savings, or Hollywood Heavy Metal.
The pages of photo ads in the pulp music magazines that chronicle the L.A. hard rock scene tell a story of creative and imaginative collapse ... |
599cbf13b3c917b7b3959c8d7abe0836 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-08-ca-50-story.html | MOVIE REVIEW : Outmanned Finns vs. Russian Invaders in Epic ‘Talvisota’ | MOVIE REVIEW : Outmanned Finns vs. Russian Invaders in Epic ‘Talvisota’
“Talvisota,” Finland’s official entry into the Oscar sweepstakes (AMC Century 14), is a classic war picture, at once intimate and epic, majestic and numbing, that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Finns’ brave stand against Russian invaders,... |
45f689c1b2ffb991147ef0e9e5d8ddcb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-08-fi-243-story.html | Trans-Soviet Fiber-Optic Venture to Include US West | Trans-Soviet Fiber-Optic Venture to Include US West
The Soviet Union, US West Inc. and seven other telecommunications companies plan to form a venture to develop a fiber-optic line linking Japan, the Soviet Union and Europe, it was announced Thursday.
The 12,000-mile line would be the longest fiber-optic line in the wo... |
f415e041dd34006a6daa7aa933b8b6eb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-12-vw-377-story.html | NAMES IN THE NEWS : ‘Doogie’ Prescription: Grow Up | NAMES IN THE NEWS : ‘Doogie’ Prescription: Grow Up
“Doogie Howser, M.D.,” a TV series about a 16-year-old physician, is even more improbable than most shows, say officials at two of the country’s top medical schools.
Dr. Doogie, played by Neil Patrick Harris, is just too far ahead of his time, said Helen Rakin, a Harva... |
e86f84a7ded9b6a8d0f770c322e8eb30 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-13-me-242-story.html | Lindsay Crosby Suicide Laid to End of Inheritance Income | Lindsay Crosby Suicide Laid to End of Inheritance Income
Lindsay Crosby, the youngest son of Bing Crosby from the famed crooner’s first marriage, shot himself to death in a Las Virgenes apartment after learning that the inheritance he relied on to support his family was gone, a family spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Just 11 ... |
e9eb67838151a540edfdd3830911a1f9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-13-vw-253-story.html | From Mouths of Babes, Insights : Psychology: Lois Barclay Murphy has been a star in exploring the emotional life of infants and children. Now 87, she is still hard at work. | From Mouths of Babes, Insights : Psychology: Lois Barclay Murphy has been a star in exploring the emotional life of infants and children. Now 87, she is still hard at work.
In 1938, child psychologist Lois Barclay Murphy and her family drove from New York to California.
At the Kansas border, they took a detour. Their 6... |
33b04c34262e8aa780925e32cee440d0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-14-vw-120-story.html | What It Takes to Succeed as a Composer : Music: Without self-promotion and business savvy, “talent” doesn’t mean success for music composers. | What It Takes to Succeed as a Composer : Music: Without self-promotion and business savvy, “talent” doesn’t mean success for music composers.
So you want to be a composer?
It’s not easy, but it is possible, and even a bit easier these days, to make a career of writing music, a profession for which there is essentially ... |
9918d7f4a6439c12759ea97089135cc1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-15-fi-121-story.html | Defense Firm Will Build on 60-Acre Site : Aerospace: General Dynamics, the county’s biggest industrial employer, is not saying what its plans are for the property west of Rancho Bernardo. | Defense Firm Will Build on 60-Acre Site : Aerospace: General Dynamics, the county’s biggest industrial employer, is not saying what its plans are for the property west of Rancho Bernardo.
In what shapes up as one of the largest San Diego County land acquisitions by an industrial user in recent years, aerospace manufact... |
66d78e8851170a0a89a8a12f4626e08d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-17-me-1425-story.html | Christmas Is Everywhere but It’s Not for Everyone | Christmas Is Everywhere but It’s Not for Everyone
A red-suited Santa Claus, evergreens with tinsel and lights, festive music, brightly wrapped gifts--all are a part of this holiday season. But as festivities get into high gear this week, it is well to remember something easily forgotten: Christmas is not for everyone. ... |
62362d678306534833ee69ef4a75899c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-17-mn-1678-story.html | Skyscraper Prompts an Environmental Uproar : Kenya: The furor over the proposed high-rise in Nairobi is unusual for two reasons: Progress is rarely opposed, and political debate is almost non-existent. | Skyscraper Prompts an Environmental Uproar : Kenya: The furor over the proposed high-rise in Nairobi is unusual for two reasons: Progress is rarely opposed, and political debate is almost non-existent.
When the plans were first unveiled last month for what was to be the tallest skyscraper in Africa, few voices question... |
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