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Dec. 4, 2010
Entertainment & Arts
Husband and wife psychotherapists Jack (Dick DeCoit) and Rita (Mary Tower) may spend their lives helping others, but their charity definitely doesn’t begin at home.
Nov. 13, 1998
Books
Glossy ‘biblezines,’ complete with top 10 lists, mix the secular with Scripture in an attempt to get teens to pick up the Good Book.
May 15, 2004
Brian Cox has the chops to overcome shortcomings of ‘St. Nicholas’ script.
Aug. 4, 1999
Science & Medicine
Sometime in the next few weeks, a disabled Soviet spy satellite carrying a highly charged nuclear reactor will drop out of its shallow orbit.
Aug. 22, 1988
Artist Nicholas Fedak II has commandeered a corner for himself, stapling to these black walls some found newspapers from the 1920s, with their faded comics and headlines.
April 23, 1993
Obituary: Landmark PBS series ‘Cosmos’ made him famous. He also led inquiries about extraterrestrial life.
Dec. 21, 1996
Movies
We Americans may be going about it all wrong, with our genteel filmic attempts to educate young children about the sad realities of a broken home.
Sept. 2, 1988
“It’s the ultimate insult,” said Thomas Weiler, visiting professor at the University of Hawaii, as he considered evidence that almost all of the universe is made of exotic matter different from that making up stars, the Earth and people.
June 27, 1988
World & Nation
Alexei Uchitel sits in the elegant lobby cafe of the historic Hotel Astoria in St.
Sept. 29, 2017