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...remain stunned by these contradictions, by the successive generations of social, political and artistic mutations that can be so beautiful and painful. How did we get from there to here? This country somehow gave life to Maria Tallchief and Ted Bundy, to Geronimo and Joe McCarthy, to Nathan Bedford Forrest and Toni Morrison, to the Declaration of Independence and Executive Order No. 1066, to Cesar Chavez and Richard Nixon, to theme parks and national parks, to smallpox and the vaccine for smallpox...
However, three key underclassmen on that team—Brooks Orpik, Krys Kolanos and Chuck Kobasew—left BC last summer to pursue professional hockey careers. That left the Eagles with little depth to battle through injuries to star players Ben Eaves and J.D. Forrest...
...catchphrases sum up the 1990s: Bill Clinton's "It depends on what the meaning of the word is is," Forrest Gump's "Life is like a box of chocolates"--and Jeremy Siegel's "stocks for the long run." Siegel, 56, a professor at Wharton, turned his catchphrase into the title of a best-selling 1994 book, in which he showed that stocks had trounced bonds and cash over every 30-year period from Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton. Siegel's book coincided with--and helped fuel--a long bull market, and America became a buy-and-hold nation...
...Lola Montez, respectively a singer and a dancer, may have had their careers bolstered—or indeed wholly founded—on the strength of the gorgeous daguerreotypes of them and the lithographs copied from these, but they are overwhelmed by the star of this show. Edwin Forrest, an actor from the 1850s, was renowned for his portrayals of theater’s great heroic figures, and his huge twelve-inch-by-ten-inch daguerreotype reflects in faithful detail that summation of his character. Huge and hulking, his portrait seems to extend beyond the planar surface to surreally three...
Over the last decade, which two kinds of created-for-film characters have achieved the most critical and popular success? The answer: single parents (think Erin Brockovich) and the mentally challenged (à la Rain Man and Forrest Gump). If you were to blend both character types for the lead role, you would get a surefire hit, right...