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During reunion week, Harvard becomes a lot like a hotel...with extra-long twin beds...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alumni Enjoy Sweet Perks | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...Bergen. Murphy is a blond media anchor-goddess and wiseguy and now a defiantly unmarried madonna. In last week's episode she delivered a baby boy -- the boy being played by a seven-week-old girl named Danica Fascella. (A perfect Murphy Brown, post-Quayle touch: Danica and her twin Cynthia were conceived in vitro and carried to term by a surrogate mother.) In triumphant autonomy, Murphy will raise the child as a single parent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: But Seriously, Folks . . . | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

...carried a triple burden: he was a transvestite, an alcoholic and a dreamer. As a Marine during World War II, he made beach landings wearing bra and panties under his uniform. Demobbed, he played a half man-half woman in a carnival before arriving in Hollywood to satisfy his twin obsessions: filmmaking and angora sweaters. The confessional Glen or Glenda, in which he played the title roles, was the apex of Wood's career. Later he was reduced to writing trash novels (Night Time Lez, Hell Chicks, Purple Thighs) and shooting porno shorts. In 1978, at 54, he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Worst Director | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

...series) and thinking seriously about green lighting retreads of reruns: Gilligan's Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, even The Flintstones with John Goodman as Fred. This summer's only TV spin-off may gross less yet turn out to be more memorable than any of these: David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Gets Hot | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...clear air above Hawaii's Mauna Kea, the Keck I Telescope's mammoth 10-m mirror, built of 36 separate segments, is nearing final assembly -- a 10-month process was completed last week. Four years from now it will be joined by the Keck II, an equally monstrous twin. By then, the European Southern Observatory hopes to have positioned the first of four 8.2-m telescopes atop a high peak in the Chilean Andes. Japanese astronomers and other groups around the world will be constructing telescopes of similar size and daring before the end of the century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shoot for the Stars | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

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