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...Though July is one of the hottest months of the year for most of California, temperatures in San Francisco reach an average high of only 64° and fall to a dank and chilly low of 53°. Mark Twain, who lived in the city in the 1860s, is said to have remarked that "the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." The reason is a stratum of fog that blankets the city for part of nearly every day, dropping temperatures as much as 15°. Many San Franciscans dress in layers of clothing that...
Stuck with a bearded enigma at the center of his tale, Vidal packs the edges with peripheral figures. Nearly everyone who was anyone during the 1860s, from Henry Adams to Walt Whitman, is given a walk-on role. This process extends to some 19th century notables already deceased. Vidal manages to insert the information that Francis Blair, an aged visitor to the Lincoln White House, knew Andrew Jackson...
...first Pudding plays were farces adapted from the professional stage, with costumes and scenery made by students and were performed in the club's room in Holworthy By the 1860s the shows played in Cambridge and Boston, and the scripts began to be exclusively student written. Some became nationally famous, such as 1882's Dido and /Eneas. reputed to be the first musical comedy in America. At this point the scripts also began to assume the pun-filled risque quality of today's shows. The trend culminated in 1915's Bumming in France which had tasteful characters like Ivan...
...Disney Channel will spend at least $100 million on new programming during its first lg three years. President James Jimirro, a ten-year Disney veteran, has nearly 20 shows in development. One that will appear this fall is Five Mile Creek, a dramatic series set in Australia in the 1860s. Jimirro also plans to make six to eight movies a year. The first, Tiger Town, stars Roy Scheider as a fading phenom for the Detroit Tigers. It will air in October...
Today's Japanese women-urbanized, educated, middle class and seeking to reconcile traditional identities with present realities-sound like American women of ten years ago. The echoes from across the Pacific are recognizable, considering that until the 1860s Japan was a feudal patriarchy in which the harshness of women's inferior status was unrelieved by such Western niceties as the chivalric code. Until World War II women bowed to the authority of father, husband and son. Today, they bow for the same reasons that they take weekly lessons in wearing kimonos: out of attachment to cultural graces...