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...defense against both the judgment of others and her enveloping Jewish family, which cannot understand why a nice girl like Wendy is not married with children at 38. Even her closest friends sometimes find her hard to take entirely seriously. "With that stupid little voice and ratty fur coat," laughs fellow playwright William Finn, "you initially think this lady's a loon, a modern- day Dorothy Parker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WENDY WASSERSTEIN: Chronicler Of Frayed Feminism | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

Carrying bent wire coat hangers and calling anti-abortion activists "born-again bigots," members of a group supporting the right of women to have an abortion demonstrated yesterday in front of a Harvard Square pregnancy counseling center...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Protestors Rally Outside Clinic | 3/9/1989 | See Source »

Clad in a white coat and cap, a sympathetic Gorbachev and his wife Raisa inspected the reopened facility, in the shadow of the entombed reactor No. 4, and stopped to ask the plant's staff about new safety measures. Gorbachev called the Chernobyl accident "very serious for the whole world," adding, "Through science and technology, we need to give energy to the nation, but safety remains the most important thing." Forty-eight hours later, the first ! unit of a twelve-year-old nuclear-power plant in Armenia was shut down. Under public pressure, authorities conceded that the operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Dealing with The Fallout | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Writer of Letitia Baldrige's Complete Guide to Executive Manners, she said that former President John F. Kennedy '40 taught her a lesson in government etiquette. When she brought a gift from a foreign official of a vicuna coat to Kennedy, the president insisted that she return the coat immediately, Baldrige said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business Panel Debates Ethics | 3/3/1989 | See Source »

...about ten miles outside Augusta, and he was forced to auction it off. His eight-year marriage to Adrienne, his third wife, has been tempestuous. Last April she filed suit against him for assault, then dropped the charge. (Among other things, he allegedly ventilated her $35,000 black mink coat with bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soul Brother No. 155413 | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

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