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...packages.There, in that basement, was the only time I feltI belonged to the fellowship of educated persons.Photo Courtesy of Jay and Linda MathewsThe Harvard Crimson's executive board forthe class of'67. From left to right: JAY MATHEWS,ROBERT J. SAMUELSON, LINDA MCVEIGH(now LINDAMATHEWS), JONATHAN FUERBINGER, RICHARD BLUMENTHAL,MARVIN MILBAUER, BOISFEUILLET JONES JR. '68 andFRANKLIN E. SMITH '68 . Inset are LINDA MATHEWS(left)and SAMUELSON (right...
...also because the accusation is a reliable way to gain the attention of appeals courts. That's one reason prosecutors and some defense attorneys scoff at claims that capital-case lawyering is all that bad. "The competency-of-counsel issue has been totally blown out of proportion," says Marvin White Jr., a Mississippi assistant attorney general. "Counsel in the majority of cases has been competent and effective...
Finally Finn turned his attention back to Marvin and his world -- Whizzer, the former wife Trina and son Jason, and Trina's new husband Mendel, who had met her when he was Marvin's psychiatrist. Plus, of course, the lesbians, a doctor treating "frightened bachelors" at the outset of the AIDS epidemic and a chef who experiments in nouvelle kosher. Says Finn: "I realized that I was obsessed with these characters. I still am. I am not interested in writing about anyone else. Everything that moves and grips me in the theater can be told through these people. And they...
...there more to come in Marvin's life? Finn predicts yes -- and hopes that this time it emerges faster. "I probably won't refer to falsettos next time though," he says. "I used the term because it is for songs outside the normal range of the voice, and these were characters outside the normal range. There hadn't been musicals or many plays dealing with homosexuals in a noncampy way. Now, as our notion of families broadens, these characters are well within the range...
While the general public and the Surgeon General still hold their nose, savvy marketing men have taken note of this trend. Marvin Shanken, publisher of the successful Wine Spectator, plans to launch a quarterly magazine, Cigar Aficionado, and fill it with ratings, taste tests and snob appeal. What evidence does he have that it will succeed? "I'd like to tell you I did serious market research," he admits. "But I'm a cigar lover. I just decided to do it and hoped I could find 20,000 guys out there like...