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...that race, supporters of then-State Rep.Saundra Graham and challenger Alvin E. Thompsonangrily accused each other of a sabotaging thecity's punch-card voting machines, and Grahamsupporters called for a recount...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: 27,000 Cast Votes in Cambridge Elections | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

...those close enough to see it, Rose's greed for numbers was softened by small generosities -- All-Star rings arranged for clubhouse men. Of course, there was his abiding love of baseball. Naturally, he can recount every tick in the seesawing sixth World Series game of 1975, won on a twelfth-inning homer by Boston's Carlton Fisk: 3-0, 3-3, 5-3, 6-3, 6-6, 7-6. During and after it, Rose called that game the best he ever knew, the one he almost didn't mind losing. Only in the past few days could that possibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living Life by the Numbers | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...Graham concedes defeat to Democratic nominee Thompson and reiterates her pledge not to seek a post on the City Council next fall. Her supporters call for a recount, saying that they may contest Thompson's election anyway. The recount, held on November 29, confirms Thompson's victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Cambridge to Washington | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...Temple, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Walker's characters recount history using Latin and Native American folk models. The central figure, Lissie, describes turning points in humankind's history as observed through one half-million years of reincarnation...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffelton, | Title: Pulitzer-Winning Author Alice Walker Visits Coop | 5/5/1989 | See Source »

...Gilliam's picture worth all the fuss? Sure, because he has tapped the cinema's capacity for lying with a straight face. If you can create a vision onscreen, then it's true. At the start, Baron Munchausen (John Neville) strides onstage to recount his hoodwinking of a sulky Sultan (Peter Jeffrey), his dalliance with the Queen of the Moon (Valentina Cortese), his flirtation with the goddess Venus (Uma Thurman), his captivity inside a giant fish, and his long-odds battle with the Turkish army. Except for young Sally (Sarah Polley), his listeners don't know if he's telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lying with A Straight Face | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

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