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After the Civil War, many teams used mohair caps with perfectly flat tops. In the 1890s, the so-called "Chicago style" or cake-box shape cap emerged--a form that the National League's Pittsburgh Pirates used again for their own caps in the 1970s...
...generally speaking, the imponderable will of God was easier to predict than the course of human affairs. The first rule of forecasting should be that the unforeseen keeps making the future unforeseeable. In the 1890s it was widely predicted that the U.S. would be bare of trees by the 1920s -- they would all have been chopped down to provide wood for heating and cooking. Along came oil burners and the gas stove, saving the trees to be menaced instead by acid rain...
...were, to Zola, Balzac and other literary realists whose project was to record the "real" France, top to bottom. But there is no echo whatever, in Lautrec's paintings or in his recorded remarks, of the political ferment that pervaded the intellectual and street life of Paris in the 1890s. And in terms of sexual politics, the seedy, overheated rooms of Lautrec's brothels are not much different from the satin bower in which, rather more than a century before, Boucher painted the rosy buttocks of the royal mistress Miss O'Murphy. It's just that they smell more real...
...nullify the memory and inheritance of a horrifying past. Mrs. Alving is a widow with the inappropriate accent of an Eastern European immigrant, but Varon delivers a capable and accomplished performance--which she does in six languages. Mrs. Alving occupies herself with revolutionary books (at least they were in 1890s Norway) which have led her to abandon the constraints of religious superstition and accepted mores...
...1980s corporate raider going the way of the 1890s robber baron? Exhibit A: last week Carl Icahn, TWA chairman and high-stakes player during the Decade of the Deal, sold his 13.3% interest in Pittsburgh-based USX. Icahn became a force in the company in 1986, when takeover fever was at its height. He waged an unsuccessful 1990 proxy war to force the firm out of the steel business, but seemed to achieve partial victory in January when the company agreed to split its common stock into separate steel and energy issues -- an agreement that went into effect barely...