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...Huntington Hartford and Mrs. Mike Tyson, and who is currently representing the seventh Mr. Elizabeth Taylor, Larry Fortensky. "It's divorce from the star aura. I've seen the diaries that some of these first wives kept when they were married: 'We're meeting Dr. Kissinger here. Dinner at Martha Stewart's.' And suddenly it all ends. People gravitate toward money and fame. And money and fame usually go with the husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HELL HATH NO FURY | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...another, says Frank Furstenberg, sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of a study on children of divorce, "women continue to support the children, and child support doesn't make up the difference." Two-thirds of all divorces involve minor children, and according to Columbia law professor Martha Fineman, author of The Illusion of Equality, the average annual child-support payment is only around $3,000. "Equality is being applied with a vengeance against women," she says. "Assumptions are made about women's ability to earn wages that are unrealistic, given the discrimination and different rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HELL HATH NO FURY | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...comedy's plotting has a similarly maddening arbitrariness. An episode last season had Martha Stewart arrive as an unexpected guest at a dinner party of Ellen's. A cooking disaster ensued early on, but just as Ellen finally got things under control, she inexplicably started throwing Cornish game hens at her invitees. The show could have taken any number of inventive turns--think of what Frasier or The Simpsons could do with Martha Stewart--but instead it went illogically toward bland farce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: LOOKING FOR AN OUT | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...series of segments that combine the narrative of theater with the movement of dance. "Snappy Crayons," which lends the piece its title, is just one of these scenes. In this demonstration of the "soon-to-be sport of foam baton air drawing," Whiteside is joined by four cast members--Martha Mason, Marjorie Morgan, David Russell and Harvard junior John Blackmer '98. To the music of Bill Frisell, the dancers climb all over each other with remarkable strength, waving brightly colored foam batons. The ease with which the dancers twist their bodies around each other is fascinating, and the unpredictable contortions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It Has a Good Beat & You Can Dance to It | 10/3/1996 | See Source »

...underdog from the start, Bowles garnered 23 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary held Sept. 17, finishing second in a district which includes Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and other coastal islands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IOP Meets Twentysomething | 10/2/1996 | See Source »

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