time capsule / nov. 26, 1990

AT THE MOVIES, Home Alone, starring 10-year-old Macaulay Culkin (right), is well on its way to becoming the highest-grossing comedy in history. No longer alone, a 17-year-old Mac would wed actress Rachel Miner in July 1998. IN BOOKSTORES, Anne Rice's occult novel The Witching Hour thrills readers. The author's latest, The Vampire Armand, would debut at No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's best-seller list eight years later. IN MUSIC, Mariah Carey's ''Love Takes Time'' is in its last week atop the Billboard singles chart. The song will appear on her upcoming greatest-hits CD, #1's. AND IN THE NEWS, eight years before John Glenn's celebrated return to space, scientists await a report on the nearsightedness plaguing another heralded cosmic experiment, the Hubble telescope. The glitch would be fixed in '93 at a cost of $693 million plus.