Word: lincoln
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Just after midnight on a hot, moonlit summer Tuesday, a National Park Service crew assembled, scrub brushes in hand. Its mission: to clean a year's worth of grime off the distinctive features of the 16th U.S. President. Once a year the 19-ft.-high statue of Abraham Lincoln at the heart of the Grecian-style memorial in Washington gets a thorough rubdown with special soap and natural- bristle brushes. Though Mr. Lincoln's baths are infrequent, their cost and duration are impressive. The twelve-hour cleaning set taxpayers back some...
Hugh Sidey tells us that "twinkly" Ron Reagan said that in my book Lincoln the President could not have seen from his window something or other I say that he saw ((NATION, July 20)). I suspect that neither Ron nor Hugh knows that Lincoln's office was on the southeast corner of the second floor, with a nice view of sunrise, sunset, the Potomac and the Confederacy. The current, ill-fated Oval Office was built...
DIED. Jim Bishop, 79, terse newspaper columnist and melodramatic you-are-there pop historian (The Day Lincoln Was Shot); in Delray Beach, Fla. Bishop also pounded out The Day Christ Was Born and The Day Kennedy Was Shot, plus 18 other books, and wrote a thrice-weekly column from 1956 until...
...Follies, not so much a revival as a complete reconsideration of the 1971 Stephen Sondheim musical, set at a reunion of performers of Ziegfeld-style spectacles. The original version won five Tony Awards but lost nearly all its then awesome $800,000 investment, and save for a 1985 Lincoln Center concert version, there has been no revival. The $3 million-plus London production opened to bigger advance sales than Cats, Les Miserables or the current hottest ticket, Phantom of the Opera, according to Cameron Mackintosh, who produced them all. If it thrives, he envisions raising $8 million to "help bring...
...talking about Novelist Gore Vidal, disparager of all mankind, Reagan got a twinkle in his eye and allowed as how even Vidal might err. A passage in Vidal's novel Lincoln had the Great Emancipator standing in the White House staring out of a window. By his calculation, chuckled Reagan, if Lincoln had been where Vidal placed him, he would not have seen what Vidal described...