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...MARVIN'S ROOM. The first generation of AIDS plays dealt with the disease head on and focused on a specifically gay male world. The new wave, like Prelude to a Kiss and this off-Broadway knockout by Scott McPherson, respond metaphorically, never mentioning gays or even the disease but instead looking at the universal experiences of illness and dying, family rage and reconciliation. Director David Petrarca has polished the work through stagings in Chicago and Hartford, and it shines -- especially in Laura Esterman's portrayal of a care-giving aunt and Mark Rosenthal's depiction of her turbulent teenage nephew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 23, 1991 | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

FEMA spokesman Marvin Davis, who says the facility is still needed, concedes that political change in the world may ultimately redefine the role of Mount Weather. "But public policy rarely closely follows current events," he says. "It's too soon. We're less than a few months into the new world. It's going to take some time before that's fully assessed." Says Becton: "We are no longer faced with a bolt out of the blue from Russia, but no one has the assurance that someone else won't pop up in the next five or 10 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Defense Doomsday Hideaway | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

...Army commander who conducted daily Pentagon briefings during the war. Kelly, who has signed for 60 more speeches, stands to earn some $3 million this year, far more than he made during his 34-year military career and millions of dollars more than Schwarzkopf has made on the podium. Marvin Josephson, Schwarzkopf's agent, says the former Desert Storm commander is too busy writing his book to hit the circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Early Bird Scores Big | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...seven with the ball on the Princeton 46, Mike Giardi dished to Hirsch on the left side. The burly back charged forward, but lost his balance at the line of scrimmage. Picking himself up, Hirsch leaped ahead over a Princeton lineman before finally being knocked down by free safety Marvin Williamson...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Hirsh: Leaping Tall Buildings in Single Bounds | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

Swaggart's organization has been in decline since rival preacher Marvin Gorman circulated photos of Swaggart visiting a prostitute in a New Orleans motel three years ago. The scandal forced Swaggart to resign from the Assemblies of God, the nation's largest Pentecostal denomination, and nearly 200 television stations dropped his weekly program. The ministry took another hit last month when a jury in New Orleans found that Swaggart and others had defamed Gorman with allegations of adulterous behavior and ordered the group to pay $10 million in damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandals: No Apologies This Time | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

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