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TUNE IN TOMORROW. Like the soap operas it parodies, this broad comedy teases more than it delivers in its tale of a blowsy woman (Barbara Hershey), her avid nephew (Keanu Reeves) and a radio writer (Peter Falk) who loves mischief and hates Albanians. A savory score by Wynton Marsalis, though...
Then last week came the murder of 22-year-old Brian Watkins, an avid tennis buff from Provo, Utah, on a subway platform in midtown Manhattan. Over the years, his family frequently made a pilgrimage to watch the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens. En route to dinner at Tavern on the Green, a popular tourist attraction, the family was attacked by a group of eight black and Hispanic youths. After one of the gang cut open his father's pocket to get at his money and punched his mother in the face, Brian jumped to his parents' defense...
According to Coop salesperson Pam D. Byron, an avid watcher of student shopping, these first-years are not unusual, as parents often accompany undergraduates on back-to-school sprees...
Though an avid reader--Robertson says she enjoys the unabridged version of Clarissa, Samuel Richardson's 1500-page novel-her friends and professors note that she is far from conventionally bookish. Rather, she combines an academic bent with social activism and a piercing, ironic...
Iran eager to patch things up with the Great Satan? Syria, the pre-eminent Soviet client state in the Middle East, avid for U.S. approval? Those developments sound as unlikely as . . . well, as the release of an American hostage by Lebanese kidnapers who apparently got nothing whatsoever in return from Washington. But Robert Polhill, 55, a professor at Beirut University College who had been abducted and held for three years and three months, was in fact turned loose on the streets of Beirut at the start of last week. His freedom did result from a combination of arm twisting...