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What a guy! What an anachronism! For Dunbar is not a 1990s yuppie who suddenly decides to take his Sierra Club membership seriously. He is a lieutenant in the U.S. Cavalry, circa 1864. Given command of a small fort deep in Sioux country, he finds that its garrison has mysteriously disappeared. That provides him the freedom for self-discovery and for developing peaceable relationships with the Indians, as well as a romance with Stands with a Fist, a white woman who was taken captive by Indians as a child (hauntingly played by Mary McDonnell...
...Owen Lipstein to merge his shaky start-up with a proposed rival, Men, and pick up its creators, Peter Kaplan and Chris Kimball, as editor and publishing director. In their vision, everything old is new again: Kaplan says his "new" magazine will attempt to recapture the personality of Esquire circa the 1930s, which he describes as that magazine's heyday -- not a universal judgment among Esquire connoisseurs. The Kaplan regime takes effect with the December-January issue...
SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN. Good ole country folk sing the evening away in this funny, affectionate off-Broadway look at a Saturday night Bible Belt church meeting circa 1938. "Praise...
...match it. Wilson has proved he does not suffer under that burden. But in deference to stage superstition, the night before Piano Lesson started rehearsals at the Yale Repertory Theater in 1987, he began drafting his next play, Two Trains Running. A candid, joyous evocation of black street life circa 1968, it is just finishing its debut run at Yale. The episodic structure and comedic tone differ radically from Piano Lesson and Fences. The main thing the newest play has in common with them is that it too is terrific...
Telling footnote for future histories of the American right, circa 1990: at the Conservative Political Action Conference this month, vendors offered eleven different Oliver North buttons and two Fawn Hall pins. One T shirt depicted a soldier with an assault rifle over the slogan WASTE THE RED BASTARDS. But any conservative who might have wanted a George Bush button for his lapel was out of luck. The nation's nominal Conservative in Chief was missing both in person and in likeness...