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...pictures not quite bad enough to attract a cult following, got his break with a TV tearjerker about a dying athlete and the mini-series The Blue and the Gray. Linda attributes her success in network television, one of the last remaining outposts of prefeminist thinking, "to the Bic pen and nothing else." She wrote 35 straight episodes of Designing Women, an indoor record in Hollywood. But after 150 episodes, the top-rated show about four intelligent women had won only one Emmy -- for hairdressing. So she wasn't surprised by Hillary's national reception. "That's how women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason: Just a Couple of Hicks With 40 Million Viewers | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

Contacts are out. Coke bottle glasses are back in. Hang onto those straight-legged, look-like-they-never-left-the-store Levis. But remember, no button flies. Ever. Pocket protectors are out. The pen behind the ear look is in. Other accessories: none (Mr. Premed doesn't waste his time with accessories...

Author: By D. RICHARD De silva, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Men | 1/13/1993 | See Source »

...doesn't mean that Harvard can forget about its workers for the next three years. And it doesn't mean that all the University's labor relations difficulties have van- ished with a pen-stroke...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Despite Agreement, Problems May Persist | 1/8/1993 | See Source »

...face of an orphaned angel, STACY DEAN CAMPBELL offers no fuss, no frills, just righteous white-boy blues ("Would you run away from me/ If I came crawlin' back to you"). His debut album, Lonesome Wins Again, is 10 sticks of slow-fused Nashville dynamite from his own pen and those of top country songsmiths Don Schlitz and Jamie O'Hara. The best tunes, including Baby Don't You Know and I Won't, take you two-stepping back to 1957 -- rockabilly prime time -- when Marty Robbins, the Everly Brothers and Don Gibson were teaching city kids how country sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Dec. 28, 1992 | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

...someone offered Harvard University the chance to save millions of dollars on electricity, you'd think President Neil L. Rudenstine wouldn't be able to whip out his pen fast enough to cross the t and dot the i's of his presidential name, right...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Give `Green Lights' a Green Light | 12/8/1992 | See Source »

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