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History as Entertainment For an old Saturday Night Live-style comedian, there is a seriousness of purpose about Hanks as history maker. At 53, he has a repertoire that doesn't include anarchy; he's no longer the romantic-comedy clown. In fact, he exhibits a crabbed resentment toward historical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

Republicans have taken heart in last week's elections showing independent voters swinging their way - even though their strategy has involved little beyond saying no. Their 209-page health care alternative, produced less than a week before passage of the Democratic bill, was widely panned as a flimsy attempt at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the House, Can Health Reform Survive the Senate? | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

“I ought to send it back,” my roommate said, but instead—despite her limited Portuguese and the close, crabbed handwriting of the letter writer—she tried to decipher it.

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Annotate This | 2/19/2003 | See Source »

We're in McDonagh country again for sure. Two gravediggers, whose job is to clear out old corpses in the local cemetery so new ones can be buried in their place, dig up the remains of one fellow's late wife. She turns out to have a huge gash in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway and Beyond | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

As a kind of self-dare, I decided to immerse myself in the male-weepie canon, even though this meant viewing certain films I had been avoiding for decades, like Brian's Song, Bang the Drum Slowly and The Great Santini. I also read Death of a Salesman and sought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Boys Do Cry | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

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