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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After her divorce, she was involved with the agent Leland Hayward and Howard Hughes, but it was Tracy "who was on to her," who gave up nothing for her and who consequently won her devotion. She stopped doing everything that irked him, even altered "qualities which I personally valued. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katharine Hepburn: A Bad Case of HEPBURN | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

Hepburn is no more introspective in person than she was in her off-the-top- of-her-head, sentence-fragment memoir. Hepburn does not like people who "make a fuss." When she found her 16-year-old brother dead, hanging from the rafters by bed sheets, she cried later because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katharine Hepburn: A Bad Case of HEPBURN | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

Less than three years after Czechoslovakia's "velvet revolution," the country announced the preliminary terms of a "velvet divorce." Slovak Vladimir Meciar and Czech Vaclav Klaus, whose parties gained pluralities in their respective republics in elections earlier this month, agreed last week to form an interim federal government. It will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Divorce in The Heart of Europe | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

-- Nonetheless, the poll also shows continuing and widespread lay dissent on the hot-button issues that affect women, including birth control, divorce, female priests and, to some extent, abortion. Although women favor allowing married priests, they are divided over whether this change would make male clergy more understanding toward women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cut From The Wrong Cloth | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

When I reminded his mother about this, she said, "Bill and I have always been able to do that. I know you people are amazed at this, but we would always put away anything unpleasant." In fact, his mother does not remember her own deposition given in the same divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Forgotten Childhood | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

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