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1993Year ASK NOT for whom the bell tolls in Hollywood. It often turns out to be a school bell, tolling for a teacher. Plots centering on teachers have long been popular among film makers. One reason might be movie moguls flattering themselves by likening the pedagogical aspects of teaching to the uplifting moral role that Film -- with a capital "F," of course -- is meant to play in the lives of those people out there in the dark. Kirk Douglas is a stalwart hero in "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949) for declaiming sentiments like "I'm a schoolteacher
that's even worse than being an intellectual." Hollywood's Pet: Schoolteachers
1994Year The Library of Congress held a luncheon the other day to honor RITA DOVE on the completion of her year as poet laureate of the United States, and, lamenting that her duties had kept her from writing much poetry, she said, "I hope to change that this year." Ms. Dove has accepted an appointment by James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, for another year in the post because, she said, "You can't get anything done in a year. That's not just for poets
that's everyone." CHRONICLE
1978Year There's a. small rock in my living room that's black and white with gold veins that shine. Rock hounds sometimes pick it up and make learned comments on its content, usually adding, “
That's fool's gold, you know.” The Best Talismans: Objects That Bring Back Happy Times
1986Year ''He knows what the deal is. He knows the bottom line.'' With those words, George Steinbrenner has set the tone for the meeting he says he will have with Lou Piniella after the season. Steinbrenner used other words in his view of the Yankees' circumstances, and they don't do much for Piniella's chances of returning for a second season as manager of the Yankees. In fact, a source close to Steinbrenner said yesterday, ''Piniella is going
that's for sure.'' Piniella's Job Is Endangered by Steinbrenner's Bottom Line
1984Year Traveling with Vice President Bush is like traveling with a circus tiger in a cage. His mission is not to make national news
that's for the President. His campaign is meant to get on television in far-flung media markets and to flatter small-town reporters with press conferences in this Elks Hall and that Holiday Inn. But there's an obstacle - the planeful of national reporters following his campaign. The Editorial Notebook; George Bush's Daily Dilemma
1992Year Middle-aged women in white smocks and yellow rubber gloves sat in a room at the McDonald's food-processing plant last month, peeling onions and dropping them into buckets. They are reassigned now, and the onions are gone. So is the machine that sliced them into slabs for hamburgers. The pickle operation has also disappeared from the plant on the outskirts of Moscow, turned over like the onions to a Russian supplier. In this case, a farm that grew and sold cucumbers to McDonald's now also pickles them, then cuts and delivers them in Russian-made plastic bags. Moscow Journal
That's Funny, Those Pickles Don't Look Russian