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Tadasse first lived in an apartment inCambridge before starting her first year atHarvard. "She was alone in an apartment beforeschool started," said McMillin, who spends hersummers in Centerville, Mass. and kept in touchwith Tadasse. She was "a stranger in a strangeland...
...Procter & Gamble, which owns three network soap operas -- CBS's As the World Turns and Guiding Light and NBC's Another World -- recently replaced the executive producers of all three shows, which are among the four lowest-rated daytime soaps. Some soaps are working hard to boost ratings with stranger than usual story lines. On ABC's 26-year-old serial One Life to Live, Viki Lord Buchanan's multiple-personality disorder is wreaking havoc again after years of dormancy. During the mid-'80s the matronly blond heroine (played by Erika Slezak) harbored only one alter ego: racy barfly Niki...
...unveil later this year would be delayed until April 1996--after the critical Christmas buying season. Sega, which apparently was making its plans around Nintendo's original schedule, surprised everyone by announcing that its new 32-bit Saturn would be available immediately instead of in September. Sony, no stranger to the stratagems of consumer-electronics marketing, neatly parried with its own surprise: a pre-emptive price cut on the PlayStation--before the official list price was even set--to $299. That positioned the game system well below the $399 list prices of the Sega and 3DO machines and only slightly...
Johnson-Arbor says she's no stranger to suchaccusations. Her mixed heritage has, in fact, madeheadlines: Her mother, a Black televisionpersonality, sued her father, a white businessexecutive, for child support...
...gooey cream may bring fellow dyers closer together, viewing a pink head of hair does not inspire quite the same enthusiasm in the average brown-haired Joe. Out of the corner of their eyes, our dyers often catch sight of open-mouthed gapes and wide-eyed stares. "No stranger ever says anything," Brown says. "They just stare." Workman adds that "little kids can't keep their eyes off my hair." Of course, these enraptured spectators can hardly be blamed for their violation of Ms. Vanderbilt's no-staring rule. The novelty of blue hair is justification enough for these...