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King (1883 - 1969) studied art and spent his adult life in Chicago, and "Gasoline Alley" is ostensibly set there, though you would never know it. It takes the form of a small town comedy, based primarily on King's memories of Tomah, Wisconsin, where he grew up. Centered on an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bright, Well-lit 'Alley' | 7/9/2005 | See Source »

FILED FOR DIVORCE. TERRY MCMILLAN, 53, author who based her best-selling book How Stella Got Her Groove Back on her romance with JONATHAN PLUMMER, 30; after discovering he was gay; in California's Contra Costa County. "It was devastating to discover that a relationship I had publicized to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 11, 2005 | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

Whatever hope Zimbardo offers rests on society's ability to recover its waning spirit of community. Where that occurs, vandalism is rare. Nathan Goldman, chairman of the sociology department at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, reports that a school deeply involved in its neighborhood-by holding night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Vandal: Society's Outsider | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

After Schröder's party was severely beaten in North Rhine-Westphalia, a Social Democratic stronghold for 39 years, and was suffering its lowest approval ratings since World War II, Schröder should have resigned gracefully. Instead, he decided to call a snap election. Nevertheless, there are two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/24/2005 | See Source »

Sarah (Marlee Matlin) is not officially a student. She is a graduate who has her own bitter reasons for staying on campus, doing menial work, instead of rejoining the world. If anything, the abuses she once suffered make her more vulnerable and touching. Yet she never seems pathetic, not as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miracle Worker: CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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