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BOOKS . . . RAGE FOR FAME: THE ASCENT OF CLARE BOOTHE LUCE: She may be only one of history?s footnotes now, but in her heyday Clare Boothe Luce was, after Eleanor Roosevelt, the most talked-about woman in America. TIME Critic John Elson writes that Boothe seemingly had it all: she was a headlining journalist (for Life and the original Vanity Fair); a successful playwright (?The Women?); a two-term Congresswoman from Connecticut; and later U.S. ambassador to Italy. She had a merciless wit and stunning looks to go with her smarts. Drawing on interviews with family, friends and Luce herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekly Entertainment Guide | 5/23/1997 | See Source »

Margaret Reeb is somewhere in her 80s. In her Livingston, Mont., sitting room stands an ancient upright piano. On a wall hangs a photograph of Reeb and a smiling Eleanor Roosevelt. The topic of her verse--the mountain's beauty, the nobility of the pioneer gold miners who wrested their destinies from it--is a variation on an old frontier theme. Were she merely a wistful ex-schoolteacher, one could dismiss Reeb as a member of a familiar but vanishing species: the Western romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIVINGSTON, MONTANA: NOBODY ASKED HER | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...three assistant deans of freshman, David B. Fithian, Eleanor A. Sparagana and D.E. Lorraine Sterritt, each assign rooms to a third of the incoming first-years...

Author: By Laura E. Rosenbaum, | Title: Six Guys Named J. | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...Human Service Employees Union, whose members staff hospitals, clinics and doctors' offices in New York City, is starting its own health plan. The aim, says local president Dennis Rivera, is to "take for-profit out of the equation" and lower costs--not for care but for overhead and salaries. Eleanor Tilson, executive director of 1199's 320,000-member plan, makes $175,000 a year--peanuts compared with nearly any other HMO chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACKLASH AGAINST HMOS | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

...Joaquin Phoenix) and his widowed mother (Kathy Baker) and fixates on the wealthy Abbotts. He's convinced that Lloyd (Will Patton), the paterfamilias, got rich by stealing an invention from Jacey's late father and then had a ruinous affair with his mom. In repayment, Jacey will therefore seduce Eleanor (Jennifer Connelly), the least stable of the three Abbott daughters. And then her older sister Alice (Joanna Going), and finally her younger one (Liv Tyler), who happens to be his brother's beloved. The kid is to middle-class propriety what Genghis Khan once was to the trembling civilizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: YOUNG AND RESTLESS | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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