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Ulysses Grant sat on the porch and marched armies across his memory. He called them up through cocaine and morphine, through the pain in his throat, and into a perfect clarity of prose. He fought the war minutely all over again: Shiloh and Vicksburg, the slaughters of the Wilderness, Cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Who Is Buried in Grant's Tomb? | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

If the mood sometimes had its shadowed side, a touch of self-righteousness and meanness, a hint of the old nativist punitive zeal, it also showed great shine. America made a pageant of itself, erupting in a procession of spectacles of sudden self-celebration, all red, white and blue: the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling Proud Again: Olympic Organizer Peter Ueberroth | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

Question: Which is the best-selling vehicle in the U.S.-the Chevrolet Cavalier, Ford Escort or Honda Accord? Answer: None of the above. A pair of pickup trucks, the Ford F-series and Chevrolet's C-series, outsell every passenger car on the market. Indeed, Americans are increasingly turning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pickups Make a Haul | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

Not that the play is unworthy of resuscitation. Edmond Rostand was 29 when he wrote Cyrano; he seasoned this tale of a 17th century cavalier with the dash, sweep, idealism and tireless eloquence of youth. In 1898, when the original French production played London, it arrived like a gust of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The R.S.C.'s Rhapsody in Brown | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

On the three most famous set pieces-Cyrano's duel while composing a poem, the balcony scene in which the shy cavalier ventriloquizes his love for Roxane (Sinead Cusack) through the voice of his friend Christian (Tom Mannion), and Cyrano's lingering death-Hands does go full throttle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The R.S.C.'s Rhapsody in Brown | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

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