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...passion never really climaxes, and his understanding of the world never really evokes sympathy. This man, irate Ira Ringold, is a 1950s radio star who has never given up the Communist passions he picked up as an uneducated GI and whose marriage to a Hollywood actress, a closet Jew in thrall to her 24 year old harpist daughter, is a poor buffer against Ira's ongoing, subconscioussearch "for a way not to kill anybody." Ira wantseverything he does to be as big as his own temper,and I Married a Communist is a tragicomedyabout how that attitude didn't really...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roth's Best Title; Not a Bad Book Either | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

Fresh from the shower, ransack roommate's closet for clothes worthy of a Wellesley girl. Luckily, said roommate once appeared on "The Grind." Emerge with: tube top, tight black pants and stilettos...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee, | Title: JUST A SQUIRREL TRYIN' TO GET A NUT | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...FROM THE CLOSET TO THE CRIB: GAY PARENTS GET GOING

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Parenting Books | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Schnatter perfected that knack while tending bar in Jeffersonville after graduating in three years from Ball State University. He took a sledgehammer to a broom closet and knocked out space for a small pizza kitchen, which soon grew into a business that became Papa John's in 1985 and went public in 1993. But his demanding manner was not to everyone's taste. No fewer than five top executives, including the company's president, quit in 1995 and 1996, in part because of Schnatter's brusque management style. Says Cheryl Bachelder, executive vice president for marketing at Domino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slice, Dice and Devour | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...CLOSET REPUBLICANS? For its November issue, Travel & Leisure Golf magazine unearthed a never before published photo, taken in 1959, of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara--gulp--playing golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 26, 1998 | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

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