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They are both recruited to attend St. Joseph's, a private high school an hour and a half away in the suburbs, reputed for its academics and even more for its basketball program. A faded cardboard cutout of Detroit Pistons legend Isaiah Thomas, who graduated from the school, decays in the trophy display case...

Author: By Mimi N. Schultz, | Title: 'Dreams' A Provocative Mix of Hoops and Glory | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

Horrell said Crowley used a razor blade to cutout marbleized decorative endpapers from 13 of theFogg's books, including valuable, 19th-centuryperiodicals, Horrell said. Between $4,000 and$5,000 in damage was done at the Fogg, he said...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Museum Robber Nabbed | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

Each Vice President copes in his own way with playing second fiddle in an orchestra where first fiddle not only is the conductor but owns the concert hall. Gore employs humor (last month he gave Clinton a cardboard cutout of himself to take on vacation) and his innate best-student-in-the-class properties to make the most of his No. 2 role. As a result, Gore is rising above the usual stature of the office. Even Bill Kristol, Dan Quayle's former chief of staff, thinks Gore has "done pretty well. Maybe Democratic Vice Presidents get more clout, maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's Al Gore? | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

With all his "complexity," Charlie might as well be a backdrop from the "Saturday Night Live" set that Meyers walked off with--along with a good portion of the cast. Meyers ends up more or less holding a cardboard cutout of Charlie in front of his face as he does his cheap humor bit, a little like he does every week on TV. In fact, the character from Meyer's occasionally-shown Scottish store skit almost makes an appearance of his own when Meyers plays Charlie's Scottish father...

Author: By Christopher J. Hernandez, | Title: Shallow Plot, Disconnected Characters Sink 'Axe Murderer' | 7/30/1993 | See Source »

Colombo city employees dismantle a cutout billboard of Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa displayed during May Day festivities at which the 68- year-old Premadasa was blown to bits by a suicidal assassin who detonated explosives strapped to his body. The bomber who killed the President and 23 others was identified last week as a Tamil militant who had ingratiated himself with the President's staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Death, Larger Than Life | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

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