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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rare interviews, that spent the past 14 years locked in a vault. Next month Simon & Schuster will publish Garbo, by the author Antoni Gronowicz, a longtime friend, who died five years ago. Withheld while Garbo was alive, it contains reminiscences about her childhood in Sweden and her relationships with mentor Mauritz Stiller, conductor Leopold Stokowski and others. In it, Garbo reflects on the tales that "women chased her more often and more persistently" than men. Another associate, film scholar Raymond Daum, has a book due out late this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: May 7, 1990 | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

Efforts to connect generations are producing a host of new programs across the U.S. Linking Lifetimes, a mentor program that brings retirees together with at-risk teenagers, is being launched in nine cities. In Omaha and seven other cities, elderly volunteers visit regularly with chronically ill children in a program called Family Friends. Generations Together, a research group based at the University of Pittsburgh, organizes phone links between older people and so-called latchkey kids, who return to empty homes after school. At the Point Park College Children's School in Pittsburgh, some preschoolers are being taught about aging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Getting Young and Old Together | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

Tomassoni's fiercest loyalties lie with Cleary, one of his best friends and his coaching mentor...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Tomassoni Is a 'Very, Very, Very, Very, Very Leading Candidate' | 2/15/1990 | See Source »

There has been talk about the record--set by Cleary's mentor, Ralph "Cooney" Weiland, in 1971--since the season opened in November. If all went well, the word was, the record would come in Game Five, against RPI in late November. All did not go well...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Cleary Sets Harvard Record For Wins | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

...Like his mentor, Gorbachev could see that the creaking, centrally controlled Soviet system, under the stifling ministrations of bureaucrats, was about to expire. To oil the cogs of a restructured economic machine, he would have to inspire productivity and reclaim for the consumer sector much of the vast resources and brainpower that had been commandeered by the military. And to do that he had to overcome traditional Bolshevik paranoia and reappraise the threat to the Soviet Union from the West. "Security," he wrote in 1987, "can no longer be ensured by military means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of People | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

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