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...future of the much touted electronic superhighway, which is expected to bring into U.S. homes everything from video games, movies and news on demand to vast video shopping malls. The quest to build this highway has become the great preoccupation of the 1990s, and thus the TCI-Bell Atlantic breakup had a global resonance. The two companies combined would have been the single biggest highway builder, expecting to spend as much as $20 billion over five years toward the construction of an interactive system for American homes...
Until these allegations hit the newsstand, Harding bore up in public with surprising composure. On Tuesday she withstood more than 10 hours of FBI questioning. After the eighth hour, she issued a statement announcing that she was separating from Gillooly -- their third breakup in four tempestuous years. When she emerged from the interrogation at 11:25 p.m., she paused to answer reporters' questions. Asked if she had a message for her fans, she replied, "Please believe in me." Did she still believe in Gillooly? "Definitely," she answered firmly...
...albums form a linear chronicle of the heart's glories and ravages. Until now Browne, 45, has remained a discreet diarist: specific about emotions, silent about names. But this time he has been undermined by the headlines. Browne has been reasonably forthright about his messy breakup with actress Daryl Hannah, which resulted in lurid stories of battery, which Browne denied...
...play also depicts the breakup of another character's marriage when he confronts his homosexuality and the problems of a couple confronted with AIDS...
...trained as a registered nurse and who is old enough to be his mother. In the most unnerving scene, he brings in the kidnap victim's estranged husband, an alcoholic abuser who considers himself saved by born-again Christianity. It was he who, in the aftermath of their breakup, raped his wife as a way of reasserting his claim. Speaking in an affectless, almost lobotomized-sounding whisper, the husband alternately pledges to put his ex-wife on a pedestal and take possession of her and the child as rightfully his. The minister looks on approvingly throughout...