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...down the road on Route Four they had had that big Trojan horse out on their lawn with a sign in front of it that said 'The U.N. is a Trojan horse in America. Get the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S.' The gal who's most responsible for it's being there has since passed away, but I think they've kind of left it up there in her memory...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: Portraits From Epsom | 2/24/1996 | See Source »

There is no Ginger Rogers linked immortally to Kelly's name, and that's no accident. For he was a solipsist who did not share the screen easily with anyone. Suspiciously good at playing hammy, self-serving show folks--see his hoofing heel in For Me and My Gal, his grandiloquent strolling player in The Pirate, and remember that the guy with the umbrella was a movie star not entirely displeased with the figure he was cutting--he occasionally made you wonder: Is he exercising egocentricity or satirizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENE KELLY, 1912-1996: WHITE SOCKS AND LOAFERS | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...Purdon from Kirkland; John D. Heller and Eugenia Lao from Leverett; Swaine L. Chen, Steven A. Engel, and Michael J. Puri from Lowell; Jill A. Corcoran, Anne O. Decker, and Michael I. Schwartz from Mather; Emerson H. Liu, Sanjay Shetty, and Canh P. Vu from Pforzheimer; Barak Ben Gal, Manjul Bhargava, Kiran S. Kedlaya, Lenhard Lee Ng, Thinh Huy Nguyen, Adib R. Pasha, Adam Kempton Webb, Timothy P. Yu, and Noah T. Zinkin from Quincy; Steven W. Hetts, Brian D. Koh, David B. Lat, and Elizabeth J. Riemer from Winthrop...

Author: By Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, | Title: 34 Men, 11 Women Make Phi Beta Kappa | 11/17/1995 | See Source »

...right now: Nicole Kidman is no killer. The 5-ft. 10-in. redhead with the face of a pensive pre-Raphaelite has never been accused of anything more serious than criminal gorgeousness. Her vertiginous pastimes, such as rock climbing, are the ways a game gal spends a Sunday with her jock husband. So Kidman is not Suzanne Maretto; and the actress, now on location in Italy starring in the Jane Campion film of Henry James' Portrait of a Lady, will heatedly explain why. "Everyone says, 'Oh, you are Suzanne, that's how you played the role so well.' Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN ACTRESS TO DIE FOR | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

...Governor of Minnesota will stand on a platform in Duluth and pull a golden lanyard, opening the gates of the Superior Diversion Canal, a concrete waterway the size of the Suez. Water from Lake Superior will flood into the canal at a rate of 50 billion gal. per hour and go south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINNESOTA'S SENSIBLE PLAN | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

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