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...Captain Bill Doyle took home a silver with a 192-foot toss in the hammer throw and freshman Darin Shearer took third place in the 3000-meter steeplechase with the third-fastest Harvard time ever...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Mediocre Heps for Track | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...this and allowed distinguished actors to put one of his plays on film. Problem is that by the time they receive this reward for services rendered, it may as well be a gold watch. When MGM made Romeo and Juliet in 1936, it cast Leslie Howard, 43, and Norma Shearer, 36, as the star-crossed teens. Laurence Olivier brought sepulchral dash to his Hamlet, but at 41 he was a bit too mature to play a college student convincingly in close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smiles of A Summer Night | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...nesting were not already a certified baby-boomer trend, President Clinton might get the credit for popularizing it. "This will be a very family- oriented Administration," predicts Derek Shearer, a longtime Clinton friend and economic adviser. "You'll see a lot of couples with kids at the White House." Equally visible will be the lights burning long after midnight in the White House family quarters; Clinton's idea of a good time is staying up late playing hearts with friends or discussing Hawaii's health-care system. A valid test for the limits of presidential leadership by example will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby-boomer Bill Clinton: A Generation Takes Power | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...Limbaugh and Pat Buchanan is as fertile as Bush-Quayle. Will Durst, who refers to Limbaugh as "Jabba the Talk Show Host," says, "Buchanan had a killer instinct; he wasn't afraid to lick up the blood. But Rush leaves it there and just chews off the flesh." Harry Shearer, the actor (This Is Spinal Tap, The Simpsons) and host of his own politico-comic radio show, is kinder, gentler to Limbaugh: "This country runs on personality, not on ideas. I think if Rush were spouting diametrically opposed ideas, he'd be just as popular. The only people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservative Provocateur Or BIG BLOWHARD? | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE IN AMERICA (Cinemax). Martin Mull studies the habits of a typical Wasp family. Nervy satire of middle America, directed with deadpan skill by Harry Shearer. And where has Costar Mary Kay Place been all these years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Best of '86: Video | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

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