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04e57be7571512a2bfee7eeea3bf9739 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-12-fi-4262-story.html | The Stussy Style : Irvine Clothier Heightens Hype by Playing Hard to Get | The Stussy Style : Irvine Clothier Heightens Hype by Playing Hard to Get
Miles Siggens has gotten used to offers from style-conscious Londoners wanting to buy the shirt right off his back. They also want his jacket, his pants and his hat.
But the 27-year-old distributor of Stussy Inc. in the United Kingdom refuses, no ... |
1889b8d074f6b12010dc5dcceaef4ae3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-12-we-4343-story.html | Henshey’s, the Westside’s First Department Store, Falls Victim to the Economy After 67 Years. : All Sales Final | Henshey’s, the Westside’s First Department Store, Falls Victim to the Economy After 67 Years. : All Sales Final
It’s the end of an era, the death of a business credo, the extinction of a 67-year-old Santa Monica tradition.
Henshey’s, the Westside’s first department store when it opened in 1925, is closing at the end of... |
a9c80ed2f018e5946d1e227b93445c2e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-17-mn-3671-story.html | ‘92 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION : CLINTON TEXT: ‘I Still Believe in a Place Called Hope’ | ‘92 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION : CLINTON TEXT: ‘I Still Believe in a Place Called Hope’
Here is the prepared text of the acceptance speech Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton gave Thursday to the Democratic National Convention:
Tonight I want to talk with you about my hope for the future, my faith in the American p... |
e63580bc42c97c53e01f1578fa520b7e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-19-ca-4407-story.html | COVER STORY : The Voices of Rap--Politics or Just Music? | COVER STORY : The Voices of Rap--Politics or Just Music?
Stanley Crouch, author of “Notes of a Hanging Judge,” would like to put the noose around the neck of rap music.
Crouch, a jazz critic for the Village Voice whose book features essays on Spike Lee, James Baldwin and others, doesn’t find rap terribly entertaining, ... |
c94a0c9c3f166ace4c870080e5ea0bdd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-19-mn-4763-story.html | Tobacco Company Hires Margaret Thatcher as Consultant | Tobacco Company Hires Margaret Thatcher as Consultant
The Philip Morris tobacco company is hiring former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a nonsmoker, for $1 million to serve as its international political consultant, the Sunday Times said.
The paper said Philip Morris, the world’s largest tobacco company, will seek h... |
035a982f77df5f961f4da4d4ef8008aa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-20-mn-3972-story.html | Mollie Parnis; Dress Designer for the Famous | Mollie Parnis; Dress Designer for the Famous
Mollie Parnis, whose wearable, durable and distinctively American clothes were seen on the backs of First Ladies and entertainment stars, is dead.
The daughter of poor Austrian immigrants, who with her late husband crafted a multimillion-dollar empire of style from a simple ... |
826dd2a75dc375e95f5f1e5ece5ab9c8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-23-hl-4174-story.html | Lynwood Deputies Cited for Brutality in Kolts Report : Law enforcement: Norwalk and Lakewood stations also criticized. But leaders of all three are praised for trying to eradicate problems. | Lynwood Deputies Cited for Brutality in Kolts Report : Law enforcement: Norwalk and Lakewood stations also criticized. But leaders of all three are praised for trying to eradicate problems.
An investigation of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department pointed to the Lynwood station as an example “of what can happen w... |
d2bd299402f92700b76207a71490dfae | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-27-ca-4382-story.html | An Unlikely Trio: Merchant, Ivory and Disney : Movies: The ‘Howards End’ team agrees to a three-year deal that will give their artful fare wider distribution. The studio will also release ‘Sarafina!’ | An Unlikely Trio: Merchant, Ivory and Disney : Movies: The ‘Howards End’ team agrees to a three-year deal that will give their artful fare wider distribution. The studio will also release ‘Sarafina!’
The New York-based team of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, known in the film industry for artful, low-budget movies, is... |
f9d7b1c2682f43040080bc85e000e54d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-27-sp-4286-story.html | BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS : DAILY REPORT : TRACK AND FIELD : Rosa Mota Pulls Out of Marathon Field | BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS : DAILY REPORT : TRACK AND FIELD : Rosa Mota Pulls Out of Marathon Field
Injury-plagued Rosa Mota, the 1988 Olympic women’s marathon champion, said she would not compete in Barcelona. In a statement sent to national news agency Lusa, the Portuguese runner said she is not fit enough to train.
Mota... |
e6e6baaf7578236fa02a83e97c1ca385 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-29-sp-4576-story.html | BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS : DAILY REPORT : SHOOTING : China’s Zhang Breaks Ground by Breaking Targets for Gold | BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS : DAILY REPORT : SHOOTING : China’s Zhang Breaks Ground by Breaking Targets for Gold
Zhang Shan of China won the gold medal Tuesday in skeet shooting, becoming the first woman to win top honors in open Olympic shooting competition. And unless the International Shooting Union has a change of heart... |
66da67c5318e83d21ee806f21ad44efc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-31-vw-4328-story.html | For Some Adoptees, a Time to Be Courageous | For Some Adoptees, a Time to Be Courageous
In most respects, Ben Cable-McCarthy’s search for his birth mother was not that unusual.
Although he was adopted and raised by loving parents, he began to have strong feelings as a teen-ager about the woman who gave him up.
Who was she? Where was she? What does she look like? ... |
f6284e86fd3f1e3dc47c61a43a42a31a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-02-vw-5881-story.html | House Fit for Framing : Collector’s Home Reflects His Interests | House Fit for Framing : Collector’s Home Reflects His Interests
For a guy with a $50-million art collection, Joe Price sure has some bare walls in his home. Of course, with a crib like this, who needs art?
Filled with secret staircases and hidden doors and walls of voluptuously swirling wood, his oceanfront masterpiece... |
47a8e1659efa3b8980e109c2635c8f87 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-03-me-4549-story.html | Joe Shuster, Co-Creator of Superman, Dead at 78 | Joe Shuster, Co-Creator of Superman, Dead at 78
Joe Shuster, who changed the dimension of comic books 54 years ago when he helped create the invincible Superman, yet had to watch through failing eyes as others reaped huge profits from the Man of Steel, is dead.
A county coroner’s spokesman said the artist was 78 and ha... |
08eff4d2f43729acb501f54ed79c104b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-06-sp-5202-story.html | BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 12 : Cuban Machine Rolls to Gold : Baseball: Taiwan overwhelmed, 11-1, in historic championship game. | BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS / DAY 12 : Cuban Machine Rolls to Gold : Baseball: Taiwan overwhelmed, 11-1, in historic championship game.
The Cuban entourage along first base kept banging the drums. They danced, smoked cigars and drenched each other with beer. Several Cuban players showered each other with champagne on the pi... |
6e27b45205ba670fb5f8a63614c91b9c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-08-me-4631-story.html | LAGUNA NIGUEL : 11 Candidates Enter City Council Race | LAGUNA NIGUEL : 11 Candidates Enter City Council Race
Three incumbents and eight other candidates have entered the race for the three Laguna Niguel City Council seats up for election in November.
Mayor Thomas W. Wilson and councilmen Paul M. Christiansen and Larry A. Porter filed papers with the city clerk’s office by ... |
b8f19bea4dccc1a5c442a81460f71822 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-09-ca-6127-story.html | COVER STORY : Toontown Terrors : Two twisted characters and their anarchistic animator have made cable’s ‘Ren & Stimpy’ a ready-for-prime-time phenomenon | COVER STORY : Toontown Terrors : Two twisted characters and their anarchistic animator have made cable’s ‘Ren & Stimpy’ a ready-for-prime-time phenomenon
Behind the thick-framed black glasses, the salt-and-pepper beard and the shock of swept-back hair, John Kricfalusi has the rugged, squared-off looks of his idol, Kirk... |
d470c9c6f14a039b1e9ffd986cd8b456 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-09-sp-6402-story.html | Easy Target : Battle-Scarred Monica Seles Is Still Reeling From Her Experiences in a War Zone Called Wimbledon | Easy Target : Battle-Scarred Monica Seles Is Still Reeling From Her Experiences in a War Zone Called Wimbledon
The World According to Monica:
Your peers think you sound like the exhaust from a cement mixer; the world’s most important tournament does everything but sell hunting licenses and declare you in season, and th... |
fc227c032a404f1819f1ea8824ef6aaf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-10-me-4992-story.html | San Diego History : Garra’s Uprising | San Diego History : Garra’s Uprising
Chief Antonio Garra of San Diego County’s Cupeno Indians was angry. On a summer day in 1851, Gara’s son rode into Old Town to make a partial payment on county taxes that Sheriff Agoston Haraszthy demanded Chief Garra pay. Should Garra fail in this, he was told, all of his cattle, ho... |
17cb921f116f15b433efbb9a91307362 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-11-ca-5422-story.html | Weekend Box Office : ‘Unforgiven’ Boosts Summer Sales | Weekend Box Office : ‘Unforgiven’ Boosts Summer Sales
Good business across the nation on Sunday lifted earlier box-office estimates for the weekend slightly higher, and the final total for the week broke a four-week downward trend that had begun after July 4. The top-grossing movies totaled $63.7 million for the seven-... |
ee47047e91fa9c7329d84aabe76542cf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-13-me-5748-story.html | A Ring of Admirers : Olympics: De La Hoya, who won a gold medal in boxing at Barcelona, returns to a hero’s welcome at airport and in his Boyle Heights neighborhood. | A Ring of Admirers : Olympics: De La Hoya, who won a gold medal in boxing at Barcelona, returns to a hero’s welcome at airport and in his Boyle Heights neighborhood.
Oscar De La Hoya, the clean-cut, quick-fisted boxer who had promised an Olympic gold medal to his dying mother, returned to Los Angeles in triumph on Wedn... |
b5ea382f6da2a3011425e2048f231c97 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-15-me-4773-story.html | A First Lady Breaks Her Silence : Departing from her image, Barbara Bush speaks out on abortion on GOP convention eve | A First Lady Breaks Her Silence : Departing from her image, Barbara Bush speaks out on abortion on GOP convention eve
Like many Americans, First Lady Barbara Bush believes abortion is a matter of “personal choice.” Her views contradict the anti-abortion position advocated for the last 12 years by her husband. It’s fair... |
da176d313e839ca7650ca61d24960c68 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-19-sp-5695-story.html | LARRY BIRD RETIRES : It Was Just a Hate-Love Relationship : Basketball: The Lakers wanted to kill the mocking Bird, until they got to know him. Then they just wanted to beat him. | LARRY BIRD RETIRES : It Was Just a Hate-Love Relationship : Basketball: The Lakers wanted to kill the mocking Bird, until they got to know him. Then they just wanted to beat him.
If you want to know what the Lakers thought of retiring all-time basketball superstar Larry Bird, it’s simple.
They hated his trash-talking, ... |
7c619a5ce56cb9de1688f59e52789ccb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-20-vw-6473-story.html | Peach Corps : Activism: Breast cancer has afflicted her grandmother, sister and daughter, so Charlotte Haley is urging people to wear ribbons to ‘wake up’ America. | Peach Corps : Activism: Breast cancer has afflicted her grandmother, sister and daughter, so Charlotte Haley is urging people to wear ribbons to ‘wake up’ America.
Bob Haley looked around the living room-turned-beehive of his family’s Simi Valley home one day earlier this month and took inventory: a constantly ringing ... |
e19cecf3d6a9d0a0d930834a1f114fee | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-23-tm-6990-story.html | JOYS IN THE ‘HOOD : Where Gunshots and Sirens Pierce the Calm, There Are Still Reasons to Stay | JOYS IN THE ‘HOOD : Where Gunshots and Sirens Pierce the Calm, There Are Still Reasons to Stay
It is 8 o’clock, and the light has started to fade as I sit on the floor of my apartment staring at the spot where the rain not so much dripped as oozed from the doorjamb a couple of months ago, swelling the wood and leaving ... |
d86950140ec2186c1ef0be9730fe8528 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-25-sp-6257-story.html | Long Memories for Long Homers | Long Memories for Long Homers
Watch them. See one of them point to some distant corner of the arena or beyond and then re-enact, in slow motion, the swing that propelled the baseball to that faraway destination. Watch the others smile and shake their heads, either in awe or disagreement. Then hear them argue: “Nah, I s... |
69e7a8744f9f8c14247e69019f1a129f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-26-mn-5918-story.html | Hurricane Rips Into Louisiana : Weather: The storm hurls tornadoes as it hits Morgan City, 75 miles southwest of New Orleans. Residents from Alabama to Texas flee. | Hurricane Rips Into Louisiana : Weather: The storm hurls tornadoes as it hits Morgan City, 75 miles southwest of New Orleans. Residents from Alabama to Texas flee.
Hurricane Andrew slammed into the Louisiana bayous Tuesday night like a fist from the sea, scattering possibly a million residents of this state as well as ... |
11212978e3100e66f1933e7aaf7c235a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-30-bk-8596-story.html | Gross Profit : FATAL SUBTRACTION: The Inside Story of Buchwald v. Paramount, <i> By Pierce O’Donnell and Dennis McDougal, With an introduction by Art Buchwald (Doubleday: $25; 527 pp.)</i> | Gross Profit : FATAL SUBTRACTION: The Inside Story of Buchwald v. Paramount, <i> By Pierce O’Donnell and Dennis McDougal, With an introduction by Art Buchwald (Doubleday: $25; 527 pp.)</i>
“Buchwald v. Paramount” wasn’t about plagiarism. Or about Art Buchwald versus Eddie Murphy. Or about whether the film “Coming to Am... |
8d3993bda7d69ef521cfb8180d6bb523 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-30-ca-8260-story.html | TOO SHORT : Rapper Is Long on Controversy | TOO SHORT : Rapper Is Long on Controversy
On his past albums, Oakland rapper Too Short’s favorite activity appeared to be dissing women. And we’re not talking mild, good-natured jabs. This is heavyweight battering, using the foulest gutter lingo.
So why has he toned down his act on the new album “Shorty the Pimp”?
“The... |
9b2fc9e1b4334473b7903fd621a4d6f9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-30-re-8294-story.html | Disney’s Jungle : How They Built It 40 Years Ago and How You Can Build One Now in Your Own Back Yard | Disney’s Jungle : How They Built It 40 Years Ago and How You Can Build One Now in Your Own Back Yard
Almost 40 years ago, landscape architect Bill Evans began what he now calls “the best darn jungle this side of Costa Rica.” He is, of course, exaggerating, but the lush vegetation that envelops the Jungle Cruise at Disn... |
2707daced0e18140fa8e8e56faf713e2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-01-sp-6722-story.html | Dupree Goes Out of Style : Rams: Knox says one-back offense can’t use a straight-ahead runner and lets leading rusher of exhibition season go. | Dupree Goes Out of Style : Rams: Knox says one-back offense can’t use a straight-ahead runner and lets leading rusher of exhibition season go.
Turning his back on exhibition performances, popular sentiment and the power-football philosophy he used to personify, Ram Coach Chuck Knox on Monday waived Marcus Dupree, the t... |
a675ecdd3a1c66dd65937c4c929b6c90 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-03-gl-7040-story.html | Long-Lost Tribute to Environmental Movement Is Back : Monuments: Miss American Green Cross, lost for two decades and newly restored, will be dedicated today in Brand Park. | Long-Lost Tribute to Environmental Movement Is Back : Monuments: Miss American Green Cross, lost for two decades and newly restored, will be dedicated today in Brand Park.
Once lost for two decades and later damaged during years of neglect, the restored Miss American Green Cross monument will be dedicated today in Bran... |
015972d977984002ca2d1241b0c3fb56 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-03-mn-7289-story.html | Tracking the Tragedies | Tracking the Tragedies
1948--Furiously driven by Lavrenty P. Beria, head of the secret police, the Soviet Union’s crash program to build an atomic bomb scores its first real success when production of radioactive isotopes starts in a secret complex near the Ural Mountains city of Chelyabinsk.
Aug. 29, 1949--Test of the... |
663353d7c0b53bebfb544471649ac934 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-08-mn-233-story.html | Canada to Send Hurricane Relief Team | Canada to Send Hurricane Relief Team
Canada will dispatch a team of military engineers and a naval destroyer to help rebuild parts of Florida devastated two weeks ago by Hurricane Andrew, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announced Monday.
The 90 military engineers will work to restore electrical lines and rebuild hospital... |
d6f66903d0eb7a3898a22cb69d46d0db | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-10-sp-229-story.html | COLLEGE FOOTBALL / GENE WOJCIECHOWSKI : Arkansas’ Broyles Bears Down Early, Boots Coach Crowe | COLLEGE FOOTBALL / GENE WOJCIECHOWSKI : Arkansas’ Broyles Bears Down Early, Boots Coach Crowe
Oh, how we long for the days when Frank Broyles was confined to an ABC television booth on Saturday afternoons and his impact on college football was limited to breathless and inane pronouncements such as, “Gracious sakes aliv... |
1391dac143088fc27a70ab0133cb5fd1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-11-me-154-story.html | Fueled by the Flames : Revolutionary Communist Party Sees L.A. Riots as an Opening to Be Seized | Fueled by the Flames : Revolutionary Communist Party Sees L.A. Riots as an Opening to Be Seized
It was one of the more eye-catching newspaper headlines to appear after the riots.
“Wanted!” it declared in bright red print. “Frontline Revolutionary Fighters to Go to L.A. This Summer.”
Inside the June 14 issue of Revoluti... |
cb3888bb6c8271238779db4006cce5d4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-13-tv-1120-story.html | Preview ’92 : Talkin’ Whoopi : Goldberg joins late-night arena to enlighten <i> and</i> entertain | Preview ’92 : Talkin’ Whoopi : Goldberg joins late-night arena to enlighten <i> and</i> entertain
“I want to know--is a bigot born?” mused Whoopi Goldberg, referring to white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon Tom Metzger, one of Goldberg’s early guests on her new late-night talk show.
She leaned forward ... |
5c2056c843a75e1b28f1be03e450f188 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-14-vw-651-story.html | Another Tradition: Mourning for Money | Another Tradition: Mourning for Money
In addition to professional body watchers, there also is a long tradition of professional grievers--from ancient Greeks to George Bush.
Among the earliest prototypes were wailing women placed in Roman and Greek funeral processions. Their role was to appease departed spirits upset o... |
9366be39403d5838074547eedf001b57 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-15-me-724-story.html | * Hans F. Koenekamp; Retired Cinematographer | * Hans F. Koenekamp; Retired Cinematographer
Hans F. Koenekamp, a pioneer cinematographer whose career started in the silent film era, has died at his Northridge home. He was 100.
Koenekamp died Saturday of complications of his advanced age, said his son-in-law Dale Reed.
Born in Denison, Iowa, Koenekamp came to Califo... |
61b8c04358b97873f17d72c14397a883 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-16-ca-973-story.html | Friendly Enemies : Two Comedy Veterans Face Off in Competing Prime-Time Sitcoms | Friendly Enemies : Two Comedy Veterans Face Off in Competing Prime-Time Sitcoms
Jerry Seinfeld and Tim Allen, two of the nation’s hottest comedians headlining two of television’s most admired sitcoms, will square off at 9 tonight when NBC’s “Seinfeld” and ABC’s “Home Improvement” premiere with new fall episodes.
It’s t... |
6d80644ab18516db13ebd4dd4e081958 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-18-fi-759-story.html | Figure Set on the Sale of N.Y. Daily News : Media: Magazine owner Mortimer Zuckerman agrees to pay $18 million for the ailing newspaper. | Figure Set on the Sale of N.Y. Daily News : Media: Magazine owner Mortimer Zuckerman agrees to pay $18 million for the ailing newspaper.
U.S. News & World Report owner Mortimer Zuckerman moved a step closer to buying the bankrupt Daily News on Thursday, agreeing in principle to pay $18 million for the tabloid.
Zuckerma... |
0fcb9ee49ea41483d84b53c0bc5962b7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-18-mn-701-story.html | Judge Hastings’ Impeachment by Senate Panel Is Overturned | Judge Hastings’ Impeachment by Senate Panel Is Overturned
A federal judge on Thursday overturned the impeachment of former U.S. District Judge Alcee L. Hastings on grounds that he did not receive a fair trial by the Senate.
U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin said Hastings’ 1989 ouster was unfair because a 12-member Se... |
9f7149238560a2b8ce1c7e6730d37dc9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-21-ca-781-story.html | Shubho Shankar Dies After Long Illness at 50 | Shubho Shankar Dies After Long Illness at 50
Musician and composer Shubho Shankar, son of renowned sitar player Ravi Shankar, has died of pneumonia. He was 50.
Shankar, who had been ill for the last several months at his home in Garden Grove, died Tuesday at Los Alamitos Medical Center, his family announced Sunday.
A m... |
7faf84d27e24331a76d5e8daa5003d14 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-21-mn-832-story.html | Gasoline Tankers Seen as ‘Rolling Bombs’ of the Road : Transportation: Imperfect, top-heavy design and thin tanks contribute to the potential for disaster. | Gasoline Tankers Seen as ‘Rolling Bombs’ of the Road : Transportation: Imperfect, top-heavy design and thin tanks contribute to the potential for disaster.
On a peaceful morning in February, 1991, a fiery gasoline-tanker crash jolted this Sacramento suburb like a terrorist car bomb.
Residents awakened about 3:15 a.m. t... |
a23bd7e4583fa868d27a96f178f7e0bf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-22-mn-958-story.html | Gladwin Hill; War, Environment Reporter | Gladwin Hill; War, Environment Reporter
Gladwin Hill, an inveterate World War II combat correspondent who spent much of his later years as the New York Times’ first Los Angeles bureau chief and then as a pioneer in environmental reporting, is dead.
His wife, Carole, said Monday that Hill, a heavy smoker, was 78 when he... |
108480e10ac2a7948e18eb0960a37f91 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-22-mn-998-story.html | After 125 Years, Vatican, Mexico Restore Ties | After 125 Years, Vatican, Mexico Restore Ties
Ending more than a century of official estrangement punctuated by revolution and suppression, the Vatican on Monday formally resumed diplomatic relations with Mexico, one of the world’s largest Roman Catholic countries.
“An old anachronism has been overcome,” Vatican spokes... |
62d511bf42ed841fca6b4d1c4d2da1f3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-26-mn-863-story.html | Magic Johnson, in Rebuke to Bush, Quits AIDS Panel | Magic Johnson, in Rebuke to Bush, Quits AIDS Panel
In a stinging rebuke to President Bush, Earvin (Magic) Johnson resigned Friday from the National Commission on AIDS, complaining that the Administration has “utterly ignored” the panel’s work and saying the epidemic “cannot be fought with lip service and photo opportun... |
a190bfb38f418fa8a2a6a78275f465b2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-28-me-206-story.html | Criminals Prey on Vendors : Violence: Street merchants are increasingly being robbed and beaten. Authorities say many assaults go unreported, primarily because sellers do not trust police. | Criminals Prey on Vendors : Violence: Street merchants are increasingly being robbed and beaten. Authorities say many assaults go unreported, primarily because sellers do not trust police.
For a $15-a-day job, Julian Dorantes, a 29-year-old ice cream vendor peddling his wares in South-Central Los Angeles, lost his life... |
892fde5eb013355e455ccd80e5554f55 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-30-fi-329-story.html | IRS Targets Those Who Fail to File : Agency Reassigns 2,000 Auditors to Track Down 10 Million Delinquent Taxpayers | IRS Targets Those Who Fail to File : Agency Reassigns 2,000 Auditors to Track Down 10 Million Delinquent Taxpayers
In its biggest effort yet to crack down on the 10 million individuals and businesses that fail to file tax returns, the Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that it will redeploy more than 2,000 agents fr... |
627bcbbf5e0a121eb685ea12708f0c2a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-01-me-41-story.html | ‘Killer’ Show : Ice-T Defiantly Performs Song--And Nothing Happens | ‘Killer’ Show : Ice-T Defiantly Performs Song--And Nothing Happens
Controversial singer Ice-T angered police but thrilled concert-goersWednesday when he defied promoters and sang his much-ballyhooed anthem “Cop Killer” with as much on-stage defiance and in-your-face fanfare as he could muster.
The bare-chested singer s... |
c4f0ce8d47cbe2a27aea5a0a851888e1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-02-ca-103-story.html | Real ‘Beauty’ Laser Out in ’93 | Real ‘Beauty’ Laser Out in ’93
When Disney’s animated feature “Beauty and the Beast” is released on laser disc, it won’t be the same version that appeared in theaters--or that’s coming out on video Oct. 30. The theatrical version won’t be out on laser until next September.
Laser disc dealers aren’t happy about the situ... |
38b7c881a218a4d3e9d809f7dd91cffe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-02-sp-157-story.html | Syracuse Gets Lighter Penalty Than Expected : College basketball: Sanctions include a ban from NCAA tournament this season and two years’ probation for the school’s athletic program. | Syracuse Gets Lighter Penalty Than Expected : College basketball: Sanctions include a ban from NCAA tournament this season and two years’ probation for the school’s athletic program.
The long-awaited NCAA sanctions against the Syracuse basketball program came down Thursday, lighter than expected because of the school’s... |
82a68205d3562684c5415c1c3fd43460 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-06-mn-432-story.html | General Dynamics Sells a Third San Diego Unit : Aerospace: Purchaser says it has no plans to eliminate jobs or move Electronics Division. | General Dynamics Sells a Third San Diego Unit : Aerospace: Purchaser says it has no plans to eliminate jobs or move Electronics Division.
General Dynamics announced Monday the sale of its Electronics Division to Carlyle Group of Washington, D.C., its third divestiture of a major San Diego operation over the past year.
... |
f03f50b7378287be053e9f9f5268eb98 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-08-mn-826-story.html | Fred Otash; Colorful Hollywood Private Eye and Author | Fred Otash; Colorful Hollywood Private Eye and Author
Fred Otash, legendary Hollywood vice cop and private eye once known affectionately as “Mr. O,” has died at the age of 70.
The colorful Otash, who had just completed a book titled “Marilyn, Kennedy and Me” about the death of Marilyn Monroe, died Monday in his West Ho... |
2ee35f65238b8f773f5a4a39b076144b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-08-we-921-story.html | Call Them the Fab Four of Santa Monica : Colleges: Corsair water polo program gets an unexpected a boost from four women. | Call Them the Fab Four of Santa Monica : Colleges: Corsair water polo program gets an unexpected a boost from four women.
Wesley Rogers did not know what to expect when he rejoined the Santa Monica College water polo team this season.
After sitting out a year, Rogers knew he would have new teammates, but he was surpris... |
2b0c534b6c5f1d4e0debb8ebfc5b10e2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-10-ca-753-story.html | Facts of the ‘Mohicans’ : A Historian Is Impressed by the Details in the Movie but Sees Inaccuracies in the Depiction of Frontier Life | Facts of the ‘Mohicans’ : A Historian Is Impressed by the Details in the Movie but Sees Inaccuracies in the Depiction of Frontier Life
As director Michael Mann’s movie version of “The Last of the Mohicans” proves, the quest for authenticity when re-creating American frontier life has become nearly as important as the s... |
0f5af3e10276a50f842245939ec39022 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-11-bk-66-story.html | Get Real : NOTHING BUT BLUE SKIES, <i> By Thomas McGuane (Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence: $21.95; 349 pp.)</i> | Get Real : NOTHING BUT BLUE SKIES, <i> By Thomas McGuane (Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence: $21.95; 349 pp.)</i>
Tom McGuane’s work has always been vibrant with the pleasures of ironic language, play and chase, and quick with the kind of brokenhearted humor that mirrors large-scale fracturing inside our society. We ca... |
897d00c6d4892daa8e238a04710bc6b2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-12-mn-163-story.html | A Violent Confrontation Ends Man’s Colorful Life : Raid: Reclusive millionaire Don Scott was killed by a drug task force looking for marijuana plants at his ranch. The search came up empty; his lawyer says a wrongful death lawsuit will be filed. | A Violent Confrontation Ends Man’s Colorful Life : Raid: Reclusive millionaire Don Scott was killed by a drug task force looking for marijuana plants at his ranch. The search came up empty; his lawyer says a wrongful death lawsuit will be filed.
Shortly before he was fatally gunned down by members of a law enforcement ... |
ec58d74a9b34c6f7ebe372bf1ed04ce6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-18-ca-681-story.html | MOVIES : Leaps of Faith : Harvey Keitel’s search for God often involves confronting his darker self; case in point: ‘Reservoir Dogs’ | MOVIES : Leaps of Faith : Harvey Keitel’s search for God often involves confronting his darker self; case in point: ‘Reservoir Dogs’
In 1968, 29-year-old actor Harvey Keitel introduced himself to the movies by starring in “Who’s That Knocking at My Door?,” the first film by his pal, director Martin Scorsese. Set agains... |
0d0b4bd58720448c1a8a80a114217ac1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-20-mn-668-story.html | Rose Zamaria, a Key Player in the President’s ‘Inner Circle’ | Rose Zamaria, a Key Player in the President’s ‘Inner Circle’
In the context of the question--which was, “Why are there no women in your inner circle?"--she could hardly be described as the President’s right-hand man .
But Rose Zamaria has worked for Bush as his “right hand” for many years, starting when Bush served in ... |
572313688172dee5d105a1f640a9d6fd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-24-mn-715-story.html | French Convict 3 in Case of AIDS-Tainted Blood : Scandal: Government doctors knowingly gave the infected blood products to hemophiliacs, 256 of whom died. | French Convict 3 in Case of AIDS-Tainted Blood : Scandal: Government doctors knowingly gave the infected blood products to hemophiliacs, 256 of whom died.
A French court on Friday convicted three former government doctors, including the director of the National Blood Transfusion Center, of knowingly distributing AIDS-i... |
211d98f5e257000087612c60695282f2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-25-ca-1095-story.html | ON LOCATION : Re-Enter the Dragon : A film biography of kung fu king Bruce Lee, who died almost 20 years ago, weaves martial arts action with an interracial love story | ON LOCATION : Re-Enter the Dragon : A film biography of kung fu king Bruce Lee, who died almost 20 years ago, weaves martial arts action with an interracial love story
In the garish, lantern-hung cha-cha palace created within Kowloon’s Mongkok Neighborhood Centre, the fearful dancers have ceded the floor to five burly,... |
b21bc4b65afa8fcb8a0848d6eede6952 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-29-mn-931-story.html | CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS : The Strategists in the Herschensohn-Boxer Battle : Republicans: Kenneth Khachigian has more influence than most campaign managers. His conservative roots are similar to his candidate’s. | CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS : The Strategists in the Herschensohn-Boxer Battle : Republicans: Kenneth Khachigian has more influence than most campaign managers. His conservative roots are similar to his candidate’s.
For Bruce Herschensohn and Kenneth L. Khachigian, it has been a match made in political heaven.
Herschensohn, t... |
af1d5fce74c5fe8b79510887e6f3d177 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-29-we-956-story.html | In the Genes : Sabertooth a Relative of Modern-Day Big Cats, DNA Tests Show | In the Genes : Sabertooth a Relative of Modern-Day Big Cats, DNA Tests Show
Fourteen thousand years ago a saber-toothed cat got stuck in the treacherous asphalt of the La Brea Tar Pits.
Now, for the first time, scientists have succeeded in stripping away the asphalt and reading some of the genetic information hidden in... |
c3c82ee9a9987b5654882332ad7c8043 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-31-mn-747-story.html | Cuban-American Bloc May Be Splitting : Politics: Powerbroker’s kind words for Clinton have caused an uproar. Some say shift away from GOP has been under way for some time. | Cuban-American Bloc May Be Splitting : Politics: Powerbroker’s kind words for Clinton have caused an uproar. Some say shift away from GOP has been under way for some time.
A statement issued by Cuban-American powerbroker Jorge Mas Canosa after a meeting earlier this week with Democrat Bill Clinton has caused a furor am... |
404aae9b3e7e375f46d8b3f573ce7280 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-04-mn-1354-story.html | Lawyers Quit ABA Over Abortion Stand : The Bar: Critics say association compromised its nonpartisan status by endorsing women’s right to the procedure. Group urges the 3,000 dissidents to reconsider. | Lawyers Quit ABA Over Abortion Stand : The Bar: Critics say association compromised its nonpartisan status by endorsing women’s right to the procedure. Group urges the 3,000 dissidents to reconsider.
More than 3,000 lawyers have resigned in protest from the American Bar Assn. after the controversial endorsement of the ... |
5c4ba2bad728b107fefa36813b62a79c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-05-mn-1371-story.html | Hanya Holm; Choreographer for Broadway Musicals | Hanya Holm; Choreographer for Broadway Musicals
Hanya Holm, a Broadway choreographer who created the dances for such classic musicals as “My Fair Lady,” “Camelot” and “Kiss Me, Kate,” has died. She was 99.
Miss Holm, who also designed modern dance masterworks such as the 1937 “Trend,” died Tuesday of pneumonia in a New... |
113477bd1469cf0bbee94c158bd3b921 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-15-ca-662-story.html | COMMENTARY : A Shtick Through the Heart : Francis Ford Coppola’s sympathetic Count Dracula is a radical departure from previous versions. It’s enough to scare horror-film traditionalists | COMMENTARY : A Shtick Through the Heart : Francis Ford Coppola’s sympathetic Count Dracula is a radical departure from previous versions. It’s enough to scare horror-film traditionalists
Authors strive to create immortal characters; movie actors long to play them. And what film character achieves immortality quite like... |
9306bf1102bfe2708c5c3f8be5590217 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-17-mn-694-story.html | O.C. Poll Guard Case Ends in Settlement by State GOP | O.C. Poll Guard Case Ends in Settlement by State GOP
Closing the final chapter of a landmark civil rights case, officials with the California Republican Party said a settlement was reached Monday with five Orange County plaintiffs who had accused the GOP of placing uniformed guards at polling places in 1988 to deter La... |
f64493f3f2b73d46accc561de4abc0a6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-19-vw-605-story.html | Banker Gets Big Pat on the Back | Banker Gets Big Pat on the Back
Looking anything but a stuffy banker, Richard M. Rosenberg, chairman and CEO of BankAmerica Corp., acted more like David Letterman as he accepted his Exemplary Leadership in Management Award Tuesday evening at the Beverly Hilton before 800 business tycoons and students of the John E. And... |
9a624608e4def55188459e7b07975cb5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-21-sp-515-story.html | Padres Promote Sherman, Prospects | Padres Promote Sherman, Prospects
The Padres promoted outfielder Darrell Sherman and six other prospects to their 40-man roster that was submitted Friday to the National League office.
Sherman, projected to be the Padres’ opening-day left fielder after the Colorado Rockies claimed Jerald Clark in the expansion draft, j... |
2decc2a41d430a78aec93cd9990cc586 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-23-mn-664-story.html | Diane Varsi; Actress Was Oscar Nominee for 1st Role | Diane Varsi; Actress Was Oscar Nominee for 1st Role
Diane Varsi, an actress nominated for an Academy Award after only her first screen appearance but who soon abandoned Hollywood, saying that she found acting “personally destructive,” has died.
Miss Varsi, probably best known for her Oscar-nominated role as Lana Turner... |
9a2204058e28ab8a078fcff806927bf0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-23-mn-749-story.html | Killing, Threats Cause Concern in Mexico | Killing, Threats Cause Concern in Mexico
The recent murder of a regional newspaper editor and repeated death threats against a leading human rights worker have renewed concerns about rights abuses in Mexico, where dozens of journalists and activists have been assassinated.
Journalists and human rights monitors are urgi... |
b146de4fd0fdcb89605eac525a10d91a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-25-mn-1035-story.html | The Queen Looks Back in Anguish at ‘Horrible Year’ : Sovereign: In rare personal tone, Elizabeth II asks media to back off from the embattled Royal Family. | The Queen Looks Back in Anguish at ‘Horrible Year’ : Sovereign: In rare personal tone, Elizabeth II asks media to back off from the embattled Royal Family.
On the 40th anniversary of her accession to the throne, Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday branded 1992 a “horrible year” and, adopting a rare personal tone, called for ... |
ec37caf9596f252bbd96631b053dc06e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-25-mn-1060-story.html | Founder of Guardian Angels Confesses to Hoaxes | Founder of Guardian Angels Confesses to Hoaxes
Curtis Sliwa said Tuesday that he faked his 1980 kidnaping and five other exploits to help the Guardian Angels survive its early years as a volunteer crime-fighting group.
“I was wrong, but we were in a sprint for survival,” Sliwa said. “We were just little people trying t... |
a58a81fde48d386fcdd03afb4e1cfbbd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-30-me-1036-story.html | It was a flourishing health spa and... | It was a flourishing health spa and...
It was a flourishing health spa and resort in the 1920s, but it is all but forgotten today. All that remains of White Point Hot Springs, a cove tucked under the bluffs near the foot of Western Avenue in San Pedro, are the sea-battered concrete foundations of a saltwater swimming p... |
dc8d85b241aeeb894bd7b37e142354b4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-03-mn-1885-story.html | Fission Tests 50 Years Ago Fueled Excitement, Relief | Fission Tests 50 Years Ago Fueled Excitement, Relief
As students hustle past Henry Moore’s abstract sculpture “Birth of the Atomic Age” on the University of Chicago campus, many are weighed down only with books.
But at this spot 50 years ago, a much heavier burden faced an elite group of physicists: how to conquer Adol... |
242cd32506e2959e9d59cb5af9f976d3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-04-me-1381-story.html | Cutting a Bad Deal : Yuletide: A man who illegally sawed down a Christmas tree in Angeles National Forest gets trimmed for $400 when he is caught by rangers. | Cutting a Bad Deal : Yuletide: A man who illegally sawed down a Christmas tree in Angeles National Forest gets trimmed for $400 when he is caught by rangers.
‘Tis the season and as thoughts turn to the holidays, some fix their gaze on finding the perfect Christmas tree in a national forest. But as a Pasadena man learne... |
f720b5d63f287586abec402279e39cb7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-04-mn-1437-story.html | China Said to Sell Pakistan Dangerous New Missiles | China Said to Sell Pakistan Dangerous New Missiles
In what appears to be a dramatic setback for American arms-control policies and for Sino-American relations, U.S. intelligence officials have gathered evidence that China recently exported to Pakistan dangerous new missiles that it repeatedly has promised the Bush Admi... |
19d800caad1ed774fc92b872636c83cc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-05-mn-1132-story.html | Nureddin Atassi; Ex-President of Syria, Toppled in Coup | Nureddin Atassi; Ex-President of Syria, Toppled in Coup
Nureddin Atassi, 63, ousted former president of Syria who spent 22 years in jail. Atassi was president from 1966 to 1970, when he was toppled in a coup by Hafez al-Assad, his former ally and the current president of Syria. Assad, who had Atassi placed under house ... |
943656e6828b9eda4f09370e77f162a7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-09-mn-1697-story.html | Marines Go Ashore in Somalia : Troops Unopposed in Mission to Aid Starving : Famine: Forces secure the airfield and port in the capital of Mogadishu. TV crews wait for arrival and light up Marines. Some Somalis appear to surrender and are turned over to U.N. peacekeepers. | Marines Go Ashore in Somalia : Troops Unopposed in Mission to Aid Starving : Famine: Forces secure the airfield and port in the capital of Mogadishu. TV crews wait for arrival and light up Marines. Some Somalis appear to surrender and are turned over to U.N. peacekeepers.
A strike force of 1,800 Camp Pendleton-based U.... |
27d76eea1412f94c4da6c43c8b018c15 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-11-ca-1517-story.html | MOVIE REVIEW : Two of the Best ‘Men’ : Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise star in an old-fashioned military courtroom drama that is a tribute to pure star power. | MOVIE REVIEW : Two of the Best ‘Men’ : Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise star in an old-fashioned military courtroom drama that is a tribute to pure star power.
“A Few Good Men” takes you back. Way back. A brisk and familiar courtroom drama of the old school, as pleasant to watch as it is predictable, “Men” more than anyth... |
3dbd49ccc472f0f6cf025bdf2199d4d4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-13-mn-4179-story.html | Espy Appointment Would Be a Break From Tradition : Cabinet: Agriculture front-runner from Mississippi scribbled his resume for Clinton on the back of an envelope. | Espy Appointment Would Be a Break From Tradition : Cabinet: Agriculture front-runner from Mississippi scribbled his resume for Clinton on the back of an envelope.
Sitting on a wooden milk crate behind Washington’s cavernous Union Station, Rep. Mike Espy scribbled on an envelope 10 reasons why President-elect Bill Clint... |
a75ddace5f9cb6b7279c3e9369474288 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-14-ca-1590-story.html | ‘Unforgiven’ Corrals Top Critic Picks : Movies: Clint Eastwood’s Western is the best of 1992 in the annual L.A. awards. Eastwood also wins as best director and best actor. | ‘Unforgiven’ Corrals Top Critic Picks : Movies: Clint Eastwood’s Western is the best of 1992 in the annual L.A. awards. Eastwood also wins as best director and best actor.
Hollywood’s annual film awards marathon got under way during the weekend as the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. selected Clint Eastwood’s Western “Un... |
439f1e84b5d04cab450c07e7ceb04e78 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-14-ca-1594-story.html | Paying Tribute to Toto’s Jeff Porcaro : Pop music: Four months after the drummer’s death, his brother Mike faces up to loss at tonight’s benefit. | Paying Tribute to Toto’s Jeff Porcaro : Pop music: Four months after the drummer’s death, his brother Mike faces up to loss at tonight’s benefit.
Mike Porcaro takes a deep breath before discussing his feelings about tonight’s Universal Amphitheatre concert tribute to his late brother and fellow Toto band member, drumme... |
a6653acd905a9e3907ee8f02dacd5a53 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-16-ca-1824-story.html | POP MUSIC REVIEW : A Rip-Roaring Tribute to Toto’s Jeff Porcaro | POP MUSIC REVIEW : A Rip-Roaring Tribute to Toto’s Jeff Porcaro
It would be nice to think that Jeff Porcaro was watching, from somewhere, the all-star tribute to his memory at the Universal Amphitheatre on Monday.
The Toto drummer, who died in August of an apparent heart attack, would surely have been delighted by the ... |
61b9081b5450919c159898220119d2f0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-18-mn-2129-story.html | FCC to Fine Howard Stern Broadcaster : Radio: The $600,000 penalty cites allegedly indecent remarks made by the ‘shock jock.’ Concerns about free-speech rights are raised. | FCC to Fine Howard Stern Broadcaster : Radio: The $600,000 penalty cites allegedly indecent remarks made by the ‘shock jock.’ Concerns about free-speech rights are raised.
The Federal Communications Commission, after weeks of rancorous internal debate, was set today to fine Infinity Broadcasting Corp. of New York $600,... |
eb6fdcb6a780a32ff28b593cddbbe354 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-20-mn-4637-story.html | Media See Bush Hurt by Coverage of Record, Economy | Media See Bush Hurt by Coverage of Record, Economy
A majority of U.S. journalists who followed the 1992 presidential campaign believe President Bush’s candidacy was damaged by press coverage of his record and of the economy, according to a survey released Saturday.
Only a small percentage of print and broadcast journal... |
2825635af95ac584891b08db79c9d7ef | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-21-fi-1873-story.html | SEC Steps Up Investigation of MGM Deal : Entertainment: Information is sought on temporary financing used by Giancarlo Parretti in his purchase of the studio. | SEC Steps Up Investigation of MGM Deal : Entertainment: Information is sought on temporary financing used by Giancarlo Parretti in his purchase of the studio.
Federal investigators have stepped up their probe into the financing of Italian businessman Giancarlo Parretti’s 1990 purchase of the historic Metro-Goldwyn-Maye... |
d1698defe7565da3fa0b9cb641f399ad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-21-mn-1819-story.html | Cuban Defector Frees His Family With Daring Flight : Escape: Ex-military pilot secretly leaves Florida and lands on crowded road to pick up his wife and two sons. | Cuban Defector Frees His Family With Daring Flight : Escape: Ex-military pilot secretly leaves Florida and lands on crowded road to pick up his wife and two sons.
Orestes Lorenzo Perez, the dashing Cuban military pilot who defected last year in a Soviet-built MIG, said Sunday he was either going to return to Cuba and f... |
716286e1f327dd507bcee11aed94dbd6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-22-sp-2534-story.html | Miami Assistant Gets Colorado State Job | Miami Assistant Gets Colorado State Job
University of Miami defensive coordinator Sonny Lubick became football coach at Colorado State on Monday, succeeding Earle Bruce, who was fired amid controversy last month.
Lubick, 55, signed a five-year contract that will pay him a base salary of $100,000 annually.
Lubick return... |
17b60c106abac0d656bab792d5c77d3e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-24-mn-3565-story.html | COLUMN ONE : Denny--Beaten but Unbowed : The trucker assaulted at Florence and Normandie has mended quickly. He talks about his experience with self-deprecating humor. But he remains awed by the good and evil he has seen. | COLUMN ONE : Denny--Beaten but Unbowed : The trucker assaulted at Florence and Normandie has mended quickly. He talks about his experience with self-deprecating humor. But he remains awed by the good and evil he has seen.
Wherever he goes, people wonder if he’s really the man they saw dragged from his truck April 29 an... |
aa431e815c91753b7307a9b53d319fb8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-25-ca-2318-story.html | MOVIE REVIEW : ‘Trespass’ a Comic Shocker | MOVIE REVIEW : ‘Trespass’ a Comic Shocker
Making jokes about hell is risky business; the audience may assume you’re a devil yourself. Walter Hill’s ferocious, comic crime thriller “Trespass” (citywide), doesn’t entirely avoid this trap. It’s deliberately outrageous: a tale of a standoff between a vicious gang of black ... |
434f917bd415f984f7fe28e14635a387 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-27-ca-4834-story.html | In Brief | In Brief
* * * 1/2 Leonard Cohen, “The Future,” Columbia. Cohen goes caustic in the two quasi-poli-sci side-openers, “The Future” and “Democracy.” The rest, though, is the erstwhile cerebral curmudgeon’s most deeply and satisfyingly romantic work (dedicated to current squeeze--and co-producer!--Rebecca DeMornay), thoug... |
741a80126c50b452c61865bd4f382d3a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-27-tr-4817-story.html | Up and Over the Santa Ynez Into Santa Barbara | Up and Over the Santa Ynez Into Santa Barbara
On the ocean side of the Santa Ynez Mountains sit the pleasant coastal communities of Goleta, Santa Barbara, Montecito, Summerland and Carpinteria.
On the back side of the mountains is the grand little canyon cut by the Santa Ynez River, as well as numerous Los Padres Natio... |
7b4e619ae6c3a67db9b21b458f9e160a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-03-tm-941-story.html | ICONS : The Haunt of the Hotel Del | ICONS : The Haunt of the Hotel Del
Look a night in Room 3312 or 3502 at San Diego’s Hotel del Coronado and you may get more than you paid for. Like flickering lights, swaying curtains, cool blowing air and mysterious voices. You may even see a beautiful brunette named Kate Morgan wearing black 1800s garb, gliding down ... |
c9f50ee37143a0304419aca9347cdb32 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-07-mn-958-story.html | Feinstein to Join Senate Judiciary Committee : Congress: She is one of two women selected to break all-male makeup of panel. Boxer wins assignments to Banking and Environment committees. | Feinstein to Join Senate Judiciary Committee : Congress: She is one of two women selected to break all-male makeup of panel. Boxer wins assignments to Banking and Environment committees.
Two first-year women senators, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.), were selected Wednesday to break the all... |
1de9968bb01bab2606f45151af182487 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-08-mn-1009-story.html | Zuckerman Takes Over N.Y. Paper | Zuckerman Takes Over N.Y. Paper
Publisher Mortimer Zuckerman on Thursday completed his purchase of the Daily News, the troubled tabloid that was once the country’s largest newspaper but was brought to near extinction by financial troubles.
Zuckerman, a multimillionaire real-estate developer and magazine publisher, sign... |
caa59a1a8fcd2f1f0a06f02b8f9d7207 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-19-ca-1467-story.html | Weekend Box Office : ‘Body’ Struggles to Make the Top 5 | Weekend Box Office : ‘Body’ Struggles to Make the Top 5
Madonna’s “Body of Evidence” barely made it to the Top 5. The film had been expected to do better, based on the pop star’s notoriety and a torrent of publicity about its sexual content and its restricted R rating. There’s little chance for a box-office spurt, as t... |
53532a5334a979eb53e6191e7b9169a6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-20-vw-1671-story.html | Presidential Image Maker : From a Snapshot, Artist Allen Hirsch Rendered What Will Serve as an Official Portrait for 4 Years | Presidential Image Maker : From a Snapshot, Artist Allen Hirsch Rendered What Will Serve as an Official Portrait for 4 Years
About Bill Clinton’s face:
“He has a kind of self-assuredness on the left side. . . . From the right side, his right eye especially, I would say this is a person who has a great command of factua... |
8893db1803ef1636ee333af9623d84ac | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-23-ca-1493-story.html | Basquiat Retrospective: Well-Earned or Hype? : Art: Four years after his death, a Whitney show raises questions: Is this a look at a productive career? Or a new spin on a dubious phenomenon? | Basquiat Retrospective: Well-Earned or Hype? : Art: Four years after his death, a Whitney show raises questions: Is this a look at a productive career? Or a new spin on a dubious phenomenon?
At a recent party for the new Jean-Michel Basquiat show at the Whitney Museum here, the building’s fourth floor seemed to thrum w... |
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